we talked a lot about bernard edwards — we saw him in the clip there with you — but he had died rights to me, you know, you've had a lot of relationships in your life but, in a sense, he was pretty much your life partner. bingo, yeah. yeah. and he's not around anymore. yeah, which is interesting, because i'm doing a new record now, and the new record that i'm doing — almost finished with it — was inspired by i guess what we now mythically call "the lost chic tapes". they weren't lost — i just didn't know where they were. these are old chic recordings which disappeared and then reappeared a couple of years ago? correct. and now you're turning them into a new album? right. some music critics have called your relationship with bernard something like lennon and mccartney. and i thinkjohnny marr from the smiths said it's actually beautiful watching those guys — nile rodgers and bernard edwards — on stage, because their relationship is so special. yeah. how easy is it to go back on stage now and play music that you wrote with him when he ain't there? um, the actual playing—the—music part is

it seems to me the key was the amazing chemistry you developed with your partner in music, bernard edwardsd you who founded chic. correct. we need to talk about chic. when you talk about being the number one, chic were described as the number one disco band in the world in late 70s. what was the essence of the chic sound? there was a certain raw honesty to our style of grooving. it was based on, sort of, jazz, harmonic movements, chord changes... but we didn't base the chic sound on traditional blues or gospel. that was probably the biggest difference between us and a lot of other r&b groups. we were going for a more refined sound. even though we were raw and we did everything the way everyone else did, we approached it with an air of sophistication that wasn't quite in vogue just yet. or we didn't know if it would be in vogue. i tell you what, cast your eyes to that screen — we will take you down memory lane. this is from 1979, this is le freak. # have you heard about the new dance craze? # listen to us, i'm sure you'll be amazed... # big fun to be had by everyone... # it's up to you, it

edwards: we have mandatory islands,ns in venetian lake catherine, crown point, the entire east bank and west bank of plaquemines parish from alliance down to venice. and everyone outside the system in st. bernard and residents south of leon terrio floodgate in golden meadow. those are man u -- mandatory evacuations. voluntary evacuations are portable shun, recommended evacuation for the port areas north of i-55 offramp and saint john the baptist parish. we can make sure that you will have that information later. those announcements have already been made by all of the local government. again, any individual who is subject to those evacuation orders whether it is mandatory or voluntary, if they need assistance to evacuate, they need to call their office of emergency management in the parish. if they need the address to the shelter that is open to receive them in the event they do -- that they do not have relatives or friends they can move to or if they do not have other evacuation plans, they need to call and get that information as well. reporter: are there any areas that are seeing street flooding? gov. edwards: we have seen that for about three days now. it has been a function of the east wi