A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Born:
October 31, 1952
Died:
April 18, 1996
Bernard Edwards was an American bass player, singer, songwriter and record producer, known primarily for his work in disco music with guitarist Nile Rodgers, with whom he co-founded the band Chic. Edwards' bass lines not only dominated Chic's sound and the latter Disco era, but also became foundational for the beginnings of Hip-Hop, including the genre's first hit "Rapper's Delight", in which Edwards' bass line from "Good Times" was reproduced by studio musicians for the Sugarhill Gang's rappers to rap over. As music tastes changed, Edwards and Rogers moved into music production, with Edwards contributing to major hits for Diana Ross, Sister Sledge, Debbie Harry, and Johnny Mathis, among others. The two occasionally produced acts together as well. Chic, and Edwards in particular, were a major influence on the band Duran Duran, especially on bassist John Taylor, to whom Edwards became a mentor. Edwards was also responsible for the formation of supergroup The Power Station, assembling half of Duran Duran (John and Andy Taylor), vocalist Robert Palmer, and his Chic drummer Tony Thompson, leading to major hits "Some Like It Hot" and a cover of "Get It On (Bang A Gong)." Edwards also produced solo albums for Robert Palmer, starting with his breakthrough album Riptide. In 1992, Chic re-formed and released the album Chic-ism to considerable success. On a tour in Japan in 1996, Bernard Edwards had fallen ill (eventually determined to be pneumonia), but refused to cancel the gig. During the gig, he momentarily blacked out several times during the show, and after the show ended, he announced that he was going back to his hotel to get some sleep. He was found dead in his hotel room by his musical partner Nile Rogers the next day, at the age of 43.
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.