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Any one catch Sundays edition of DID ?  It was the turn of Nile Rogers one of my favourite artists, I was looking forward to find out who has influenced him over the years.

Turns out that Nile Rogers was his greatest influence as he chose five of his own records out of the eight allowed........ Hmmm slightly disappointing.

Not quite in the league of Dame Moura Lympany who chose eight out of eight records that featured herself, but still ...

Absurd. Just ban choosing your own records 

wonder if he understood the programme format ? I don't suppose he's a regular R4 listener

Elizabeth Schwartzkopf also!

Mind you, the other three were interestingly varied, especially the Doors he took as the sole survivor

As did Brian Pern. I think they were all from his latest album.

Why so?

Coz he's a Septic innit 

I didn't catch DID but I'm pretty sure Nile Rogers picked quite a few of his own records when on Tracks of My Years on Ken Bruce's show - I may be getting him mixed up with Jimmy Iodine, a large proportion of his choice (on ToMY) was records that he had produced himself. I suppose he was correct, in that they are tracks that are part of his life and influenced him, and he had some stories to tell about them e.g. he gave Bruce Springsteen short thrift when presented with a demo of an album, think it was Darkness or The River.

He shows up a lot on the bbc. He's interesting and a good raconteur, but dear lord that man has an ego visible from space!!

I remember a radio show years ago, maybe late 70s or early 80s where future US president Ted Nugent talked about his favourite 10 songs, and 8 of them were his own.

Melody Maker circa 1993-4 interviewed a handful of contemporary female vocalists about their influences and inspirations. Eg Elizabeth Frazer waxed lyrical about Nina Simone iirc. That kind of format.

Dot Allison chose to praise Hope Sandoval and....Dot Allison. She made a good case for herself though, and she was always so cool.

In the dim and distant musical guests on Desert Island Discs were expected to list a large number of there own tracks, Louis Armstrong for example also picked five of his own tracks.