Nile Rodgers and Chic perform at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2022. Sean Liming/STAFF. Nile Rodgers hasn’t stopped moving in years. The Chic cofounder and writer and producer of countless hits since the ‘70s—often the biggest hits of his collaborators’ careers—says his recent lifetime achievement award…

Duran Duran performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sept. 4, 2022. Sean Liming/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO —  Eighties pop music legends Duran Duran played songs from every period of their nearly five-decade-long music career Sunday night at Chase Center. Wearing sport coats with shoulder pads, the British band…

Cher performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 21, 2019. Photos: Sean Liming. SAN FRANCISCO — After starring in “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” the sequel film based on the Broadway production that incorporated the music of ABBA as its songbook, Cher fell in love with the…

  Look, guys. I’m sorry about this. These … these aren’t great songs. But when we have one year at a time to draw from, sometimes it’s a little thin, and that’s how you get Bob Seger songs that aren’t “Turn the Page.” The late ’70s were a trying…

Clean Bandit, courtesy. I didn’t know all too much about Clean Bandit prior to February, when I was offered an interview with the English electronic-classical band, alongside another unknown, Jess Glynne, just prior to the Grammy Awards. I wasn’t in a position to meet up with them in Los…

Duran Duran performs at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Oct. 2, 2015. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Overall, a fun, if slightly disjointed show. Duran Duran didn’t play much longer than Chic, and Clean Bandit performed about for 35 minutes, so it wasn’t always easy to remember the headliner. Simon Le…