Freak Party [SEP] location of formation
Freak Party
Freak Party was the short-lived Manchester funk band that consisted of future members of The Smiths. Its members were schoolmates, Johnny Maher (later known as Johnny Marr) on guitar, Andy Rourke on bass, and Simon Wolstencroft, later of The Fall (and briefly a drummer with The Smiths and The Stone Roses), on drums. The band broke up because they could not find a decent singer, in addition to the fact that Marr did not want to continue with the funk set up any
heroin, and Rodgers began using drugs at 13.
Before learning to play the guitar at 16, Rodgers played the flute and the clarinet. As a teenager, he played guitar with African, Persian, Latin, jazz and Boogaloo bands. He also became a subsection leader of the Lower Manhattan branch of the New York Black Panther Party as a teenager.
Career.
Career 1970s: Formation of Chic, "Le Freak", Sister Sledge.
Rodgers met bassist Bernard Edwards in 1970 while working as a touring