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Chic unveil brand new single I'll Be There - listen

Listen to the disco track from the band's long-awaited new album It's About Time.
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Chic have debuted their new single I'll Be There online.

Watch the video to the song, which marks their first release in nine years and is available to download and stream, below: 

Frontman Nile Rodgers unveiled the track today (March 20) on BBC Radio 2 during vernal equinox this morning, which he labeled on Instagram a "CHIClipse". 

I'll Be There, which Rodgers recently revealed is a re-working of a previously lost demo rediscovered in 2010, is dedicated to Chic founder Bernard Edwards, who passed away in 1996. 

Chic's 9th studio album It's About Time will follow in June this year. Rumoured collaborations on the record include Miley Cyrus, Sir Elton John and Janelle Monae. Click here to view Chic's Official Chart history. 

To coincide with the album’s release, Nile Rodgers and Chic will play the British Summertime Festival in London’s Hyde Park on June 21st. The bill also features Kylie Minogue and Grace Jones. Their UK tour commences tonight at London’s Roundhouse:

March 20 – London, Roundhouse
March 21 – London, Roundhouse
March 22 – Leeds, O2 Academy
March 23 – Glasgow, O2 Academy
March 24 – Manchester, O2 Apollo
March 25 – Birmingham, O2 Academy

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Petula Cobblepot

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why is there a picture of whoopi goldburg on this article. it has nothing to do with her

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Lee Chesnut

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Any time we're "treated" to a finished version of a long-ago lost demo, what we're hearing is a song that was deemed unworthy of inclusion on an old album. That's exactly what this song sounds like.... something that would have been used as a B-side back in the 1970s.

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Glen Russell

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CHIC recorded it and shelved it as it "wasn't working". The next day they rearranged it and it became "Got To Love Somebody," as sang by Sister Sledge. It hit the top 40 at the tail end of 1979 and became another hit written and produced by the CHIC Organization that year.