Editing Nile Rodgers (section)

=== Television and film appearances ===
Since his 1978 debut with Chic on ''[[American Bandstand]]'', Rodgers has performed on more than 150 television programs.<ref>{{Citation|last=AwardsShowNetwork|title=Dick Clark Interviews Chic - American Bandstand 1978|date=January 28, 2011 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DrvC2gpAJQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/1DrvC2gpAJQ| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=February 3, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He has been the subject of documentaries including the [[BBC]]'s ''Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rk2tm|title=Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker|work=BBC|access-date=September 28, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Alexis Petridis|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/jun/29/chic-glastonbury-2013-review|title=Chic at Glastonbury festival – review|work=The Guardian|date=June 28, 2013|access-date=August 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Vozick|first=Simon|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/noel-gallaghers-epic-year-end-gripe-session-20131205|title=Noel Gallagher's Epic Year-End Gripe Session Tackles Kanye West, Arcade Fire|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=December 5, 2013|access-date=August 10, 2014}}</ref> ''Front and Center: Songwriters Hall of Fame: Nile Rodgers'' on PBS, Arte France's ''Nile Rodgers: Secrets of a Hitmaker'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/video/songwriters-hall-of-fame-nile-rodgers-8yceen/|title="Front and Center: Songwriters Hall of Fame: Nile Rodgers" on PBS.org.|website=pbs.org}}</ref> and the short film ''Composing America: The Musical Talents of Nile Rodgers''. The BBC also broadcast ''Nile Rodgers: How To Make It in the Music Business'', a three-hour, three part special.<ref name="theartsdesk.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music-tv/nile-rodgers-how-make-it-music-business-bbc-four-review-good-times-had-all|title=Nile Rodgers: How to Make It in the Music Business, BBC Four review – good times had by all|website=Theartsdesk.com|date=October 8, 2017}}</ref> In 2018, ''Once in a Lifetime Sessions with Nile Rodgers'' premiered on [[Netflix]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.netflix.com/title/81001381|title=Once in a Lifetime Sessions with Nile Rodgers {{!}} Netflix|website=Netflix.com|access-date=February 3, 2019}}</ref>

Rodgers has appeared in documentaries about David Bowie, Diana Ross, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Rick James, George Michael, Duran Duran, Daft Punk, Public Enemy, Madonna, Avicii, Studio 54, the Seventies, the Eighties, the Nineties, recorded music, girl groups, the disco era, disco, house music, funk, and soul music.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734755/|title=Nile Rodgers|website=IMDb.com|access-date=February 3, 2019}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=October 2023}}  He was featured in the 2023 BBC documentary about [[Little Richard]], ''Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock’n’Roll.''<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Richardson |first1=Hollie |last2=Virtue |first2=Graeme |last3=Jones |first3=Ellen E. |last4=Jobe |first4=Nyima |last5=Wardell |first5=Simon |date=2023-04-22 |title=TV tonight: Ringo Starr and Nile Rodgers celebrate Little Richard |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/22/tv-tonight-ringo-starr-and-nile-rogers-celebrate-little-richard |access-date=2024-01-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Rodgers most frequently plays Fender Stratocasters, as well as Gibson Les Pauls and archtop guitars such as the Gibson ES-300 and D'Angelico New Yorker.  He auctioned more than 100 guitars and bass guitars from his personal collection to benefit We Are Family Foundation in December 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |author1=Matt Owen |date=2021-12-07 |title=Nile Rodgers to sell over 100 guitars and basses in mammoth We Are Family Foundation charity auction |url=https://www.guitarworld.com/news/nile-rodgers-christies-auction |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=guitarworld |language=en}}</ref>