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0:00:11 > 0:00:13Good evening and welcome to the heart of London.
0:00:13 > 0:00:15We're right next to some of the capital's most iconic
0:00:15 > 0:00:19landmarks, including the London Eye, which a bit later on will become
0:00:19 > 0:00:23the centrepiece of the spectacular New Year's Eve fireworks display.
0:00:23 > 0:00:24How's it going?
0:00:24 > 0:00:25How's it going?
0:00:25 > 0:00:27I'm Roman Kemp and very shortly legendary performers
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Nile Rodgers and CHIC will be taking to the stage to kick off
0:00:30 > 0:00:32the party as we start the build-up to midnight.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Not only will they be performing all those CHIC disco
0:00:35 > 0:00:37classics Everybody Dance, Le Freak and Good Times, they'll also
0:00:37 > 0:00:42be belting out a string of other worldwide hits
0:00:42 > 0:00:45that the multi-talented Nile Rodgers has contributed to over the past
0:00:45 > 0:00:47five decades, including David Bowie's Let's Dance,
0:00:47 > 0:00:50Diana Ross's I'm Coming Out, Sister Sledge's We Are Family,
0:00:50 > 0:00:52Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams' Get Lucky and many, many more.
0:00:52 > 0:00:58But back to the fireworks.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01As you can see, the Elizabeth Tower, home to the Great Clock and Big Ben,
0:01:01 > 0:01:02is currently undergoing a huge
0:01:02 > 0:01:04restoration project.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07But it still has a very important part to play
0:01:07 > 0:01:07in tonight's celebrations.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11It may be difficult to see it under all that scaffolding, but you'll
0:01:11 > 0:01:14certainly be able to hear it when the famous chimes of Big Ben -
0:01:14 > 0:01:16which have been specially reinstated for tonight -
0:01:16 > 0:01:21ring out as we count down to midnight.
0:01:21 > 0:01:30All evening, tens of thousands of people have been gathering along
0:01:30 > 0:01:32Victoria Embankment to secure the best vantage point in readiness
0:01:32 > 0:01:35to welcome in 2018, and here on BBC One we will be bringing
0:01:35 > 0:01:38you spectacular coverage of the world famous firework display.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40By the way, this programme does contain flashing
0:01:40 > 0:01:42images, but right now for the millions of you watching
0:01:42 > 0:01:45at home, and all the excited people waiting inside,
0:01:45 > 0:01:50let's get the biggest show in the country started.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58Let's do it! Ring in 2018.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00Ring in 2018.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03Bringing you an incredible musical feast, please give it up for the
0:02:03 > 0:02:07jaw-dropping Nile Rodgers and CHIC!
0:02:33 > 0:02:40CHEERING
0:02:55 > 0:03:04# Everybody dance, do-do-do
0:03:04 > 0:03:10# Everybody dance, do-do-do
0:03:17 > 0:03:19# Everybody dance
0:03:39 > 0:03:41# Everybody dance, do-do-do
0:03:41 > 0:03:45# Clap your hands, clap you hands
0:03:45 > 0:03:48# Everybody dance, do-do-do
0:03:48 > 0:03:52# Clap your hands, clap you hands
0:03:52 > 0:03:55# Music never lets you down
0:03:55 > 0:03:57# Puts a smile on your face
0:03:57 > 0:04:00# Any time, any place
0:04:00 > 0:04:03# Dancing helps relieve the pain
0:04:03 > 0:04:04# Soothes your mind
0:04:04 > 0:04:07# Makes you happy again
0:04:07 > 0:04:11# Listen to those dancing feet
0:04:11 > 0:04:14# Close your eyes and let go
0:04:14 > 0:04:16# But it don't mean a thing
0:04:16 > 0:04:18# If it ain't got that swing
0:04:18 > 0:04:26# Bop-shoo-wa, bop-shoo-wa, bop-shoo-wa
0:04:26 > 0:04:27# Everybody dance, do-do-do
0:04:27 > 0:04:29# Clap your hands, clap your hands
0:04:29 > 0:04:32# Everybody dance, do-do-do
0:04:32 > 0:04:43# Clap your hands, clap your hands
0:04:50 > 0:05:00# Everybody dance
0:05:01 > 0:05:10# Everybody dance
0:05:13 > 0:05:14# Everybody dance, do-do-do
0:05:14 > 0:05:17# Clap your hands, clap your hands
0:05:17 > 0:05:18# Everybody dance, do-do-do
0:05:18 > 0:05:28# Clap your hands, clap your hands
0:05:56 > 0:05:57# Everybody dance, do-do-do
0:05:57 > 0:06:02# Clap your hands, clap your hands
0:06:02 > 0:06:04# Everybody dance, do-do-do
0:06:04 > 0:06:10# Clap your hands, clap your hands
0:06:10 > 0:06:11# Everybody dance, do-do-do
0:06:11 > 0:06:17# Clap your hands, clap your hands
0:06:17 > 0:06:19# Everybody dance, do-do-do
0:06:19 > 0:06:26# Clap your hands, clap your hands
0:06:26 > 0:06:30# Everybody dance
0:06:30 > 0:06:37Thank you. This is our very first single.
0:06:44 > 0:06:49# Dance, dance, dance, dance
0:06:49 > 0:06:51# Keep on dancin'
0:06:51 > 0:07:00# Dance, dance, dance, dance
0:07:00 > 0:07:02Come on, disco style.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04# Just dancin' to the beat, feel the heat
0:07:04 > 0:07:06# I'm movin' my feet
0:07:06 > 0:07:09# Headed towards the floor, gonna get down
0:07:09 > 0:07:19# A-get down some more Rumba and Tango Latin Hustle, too
0:07:22 > 0:07:25# Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah
0:07:25 > 0:07:33# I want to boogie wit'choo
0:07:33 > 0:07:43# Bop bop bop bop bow
0:07:53 > 0:08:02Everybody in the house, get it together.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06# Dance, dance, dance, dance... Here we go
0:08:06 > 0:08:15# Dance, dance, dance, dance.
0:08:15 > 0:09:00# Dance, dance, dance, dance
0:09:00 > 0:09:02# Keep on dancing #
0:09:02 > 0:09:12# Dance, dance, dance, dance
0:09:12 > 0:09:21# Keep on dancin'
0:09:21 > 0:09:26Here we go, break it down CHIC style.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30# Dance, dance, dance, dance
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Everybody say it with me, one word, dams, come on!
0:09:33 > 0:09:40# Dance, dance, dance, dance
0:09:40 > 0:09:43I want your love.
0:09:56 > 0:09:57Everybody sing it with us!
0:09:57 > 0:09:58Everybody sing it with us!
0:09:58 > 0:10:00# I want your love
0:10:00 > 0:10:06# I want your love
0:10:06 > 0:10:09# I want your love
0:10:11 > 0:10:15# Do you feel like you ever want
0:10:15 > 0:10:19# To try my love and see how well it fits?
0:10:19 > 0:10:23# Baby can't you see, when you look at me
0:10:23 > 0:10:27# I can't kick this feelin' when it hits
0:10:27 > 0:10:34# All alone in my bed at night
0:10:34 > 0:10:36# I grab my pillow and squeeze it tight
0:10:36 > 0:10:42# I think of you and I dream of you all the time
0:10:42 > 0:10:46# What am I gonna do?
0:10:46 > 0:11:02# I want your love, I want your love
0:11:02 > 0:11:06# Sometimes, don't you feel like you
0:11:06 > 0:11:09# Never really had a love that's real?
0:11:09 > 0:11:14# Well, here I am, and who's to say
0:11:14 > 0:11:18# A better love you won't find today?
0:11:18 > 0:11:21# Just one chance and I will show you love
0:11:21 > 0:11:26# Like no other, two steps above
0:11:26 > 0:11:30# On your ladder I'll be a peg
0:11:30 > 0:11:35# I want your lovin', please don't make me beg
0:11:35 > 0:12:06# I want your love, I want your love
0:12:14 > 0:12:24# I want your love, I need your Love # I'll share my dream
0:12:24 > 0:12:31# Your love I need...
0:13:06 > 0:13:10You know what, y'all, it's time to get funky, funky, it's time to
0:13:10 > 0:13:13boogie y'all!
0:13:16 > 0:13:21Come on. Steve on the trumpet!
0:13:25 > 0:13:29INSTRUMENTAL.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37Yeah, Steve!
0:14:32 > 0:14:35# I want your love, I want your love
0:14:35 > 0:14:38# I said I want your love and I need your love right now
0:14:38 > 0:14:46# Yeah! Yes, I want your love right now
0:14:46 > 0:14:52# I want your love, I want your love # I said I want your love and I need
0:14:52 > 0:14:58your love right now # I want your love, I want your Love
0:14:58 > 0:15:03# Come on! Turnaround, turnaround.
0:15:31 > 0:15:37INSTRUMENTAL.
0:15:37 > 0:15:44# I want your love. #
0:15:54 > 0:15:56# I need your love.
0:15:56 > 0:15:57Yeah.
0:15:57 > 0:16:17# Your love.
0:16:17 > 0:16:26# Yeah.
0:16:27 > 0:16:36CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Oh, my God!
0:16:36 > 0:16:49Wow! Steve on the trumpet and Kimberley Davies on vocals. Now,
0:16:49 > 0:17:05that is the way to say goodbye to 2017. So, my name is Nile Rodgers.
0:17:05 > 0:17:18And we are called CHIC. And I have the absolute best day job in the
0:17:18 > 0:17:28entire world. I get to make records with people like Diana Ross, Sister
0:17:28 > 0:17:34Sledge, David Bouley, Duran Duran, Disclosure, Sam Smith and lots of
0:17:34 > 0:17:43others. -- Bowie. We going to take a few minutes out and do some of my
0:17:43 > 0:17:47number one records. Trust me, I say that with a huge amount of humility.
0:17:47 > 0:17:56We're going to start with a record I did for Diana Ross. It is called,
0:17:56 > 0:18:01I'm Coming Out. Sentence Macro Bwemmy Get To The Chorus, I Will
0:18:01 > 0:18:11Scream Out, Seeing, And You Get To Sing The. -- when I get to the
0:18:11 > 0:18:20chorus, I will scream out, seeing, and you get to sing the chorus.
0:18:20 > 0:18:37# I'm coming out I'm coming out
0:18:55 > 0:18:59# I'm coming out
0:19:09 > 0:19:13Here we go, seeing.
0:19:13 > 0:19:14# I'm coming out
0:19:14 > 0:19:16# I want the world to know
0:19:16 > 0:19:17# Got to let it show
0:19:17 > 0:19:19# I'm coming out I want the world to know
0:19:19 > 0:19:23# I got to let it show
0:19:23 > 0:19:25# There's a new me coming out
0:19:25 > 0:19:29# And I just had to live
0:19:29 > 0:19:30# I want to give
0:19:30 > 0:19:31# I'm completely positive
0:19:31 > 0:19:35# I think this time around
0:19:35 > 0:19:41# I am gonna do it Like you never do it
0:19:41 > 0:19:43# Like you never knew it Oh, I'll make it through
0:19:43 > 0:19:45# The time has come for me
0:19:45 > 0:19:47# To break out of the shell
0:19:47 > 0:19:49# I have to shout
0:19:49 > 0:19:50# That I'm coming out I'm coming out
0:19:50 > 0:19:52# I want the world to know
0:19:52 > 0:19:57# Got to let it show
0:19:57 > 0:20:00# I'm coming out I want the world to know
0:20:00 > 0:20:10# I got to let it show
0:20:25 > 0:20:30INSTRUMENTAL.
0:21:01 > 0:21:02# I said upside down you're turning me
0:21:02 > 0:21:04# You're giving love instinctively
0:21:04 > 0:21:10# Around and round you're turning me
0:21:10 > 0:21:14# Upside down Boy, you turn me
0:21:14 > 0:21:18# Inside out And round and round
0:21:18 > 0:21:21# Upside down Boy, you turn me
0:21:21 > 0:21:26# Inside out And round and round
0:21:26 > 0:21:33# Instinctively you give to me
0:21:33 > 0:21:40# The love that I need I cherish the moments with you
0:21:40 > 0:21:43# Respectfully I say to thee I'm aware that you're cheating
0:21:43 > 0:21:45# But no one makes me feel like you do
0:21:45 > 0:21:49# Upside down Boy, you turn me
0:21:49 > 0:21:51# Inside out And round and round
0:21:51 > 0:21:55# Upside down Boy, you turn me
0:21:55 > 0:21:59# Inside out And round and round
0:21:59 > 0:22:01# I said upside down you're turning me
0:22:01 > 0:22:03# You're giving love instinctively
0:22:03 > 0:22:05# Around and round you're turning me
0:22:05 > 0:22:08# I say to thee respectfully
0:22:08 > 0:22:10# I said upside down you're turning me
0:22:10 > 0:22:12# You're giving love instinctively
0:22:12 > 0:22:18# Around and round you're turning me
0:22:18 > 0:22:31# Na, na, na, na, na, na na
0:22:33 > 0:22:34# Oh, what, wow
0:22:34 > 0:22:36# He's the greatest dancer
0:22:36 > 0:22:38# Oh, what, wow
0:22:38 > 0:22:39# That I've ever seen
0:22:39 > 0:22:42# Oh, what, wow
0:22:42 > 0:22:43# He's the greatest dancer
0:22:43 > 0:22:50# Oh, what, wow
0:22:50 > 0:22:53# One night in a disco on the outskirts of Frisco
0:22:53 > 0:22:56# I was cruisin' with my favourite gang
0:22:56 > 0:22:58# The place was so borin'
0:22:58 > 0:23:01# Filled with out-of-towners tourin'
0:23:01 > 0:23:04# I knew that it wasn't my thing
0:23:04 > 0:23:06# I really wasn't carin'
0:23:06 > 0:23:08# But I felt my eyes starin'
0:23:08 > 0:23:12# At a guy who stuck out in the crowd
0:23:12 > 0:23:16# He had the kind of body that would shame Adonis
0:23:16 > 0:23:21# And a face that would make any man proud
0:23:21 > 0:23:22# Oh, what, wow
0:23:22 > 0:23:25# He's the greatest dancer
0:23:25 > 0:23:26# Oh, what, wow
0:23:26 > 0:23:29# That I've ever seen
0:23:29 > 0:23:30# Oh, what, wow
0:23:30 > 0:23:33# He's the greatest dancer
0:23:33 > 0:23:37# Oh, what, wow
0:23:37 > 0:23:39# The champion of dance
0:23:39 > 0:23:41# His moves would put you in a trance
0:23:41 > 0:23:45# And he never leaves the disco alone
0:23:45 > 0:23:49# Arrogance but not conceit, as a man he's complete
0:23:49 > 0:23:53# My creme de la creme, please take me home
0:23:53 > 0:23:55# He wears the finest clothes
0:23:55 > 0:23:58# The best designers heaven knows
0:23:58 > 0:24:02# Ooh, from his head down to his toes
0:24:02 > 0:24:06# Halston, Gucci, Fiorucci
0:24:06 > 0:24:10# He looks like a still, that man is dressed to kill
0:24:10 > 0:24:12# Oh, what, wow
0:24:12 > 0:24:14# He's the greatest dancer
0:24:14 > 0:24:16# Oh, what, wow
0:24:16 > 0:24:18# That I've ever seen
0:24:18 > 0:24:21# Oh, what, wow
0:24:21 > 0:24:23# He's the greatest dancer
0:24:23 > 0:24:24# Oh, what, wow
0:24:24 > 0:24:27# That I've ever seen
0:24:27 > 0:24:29# Oh, what, wow
0:24:29 > 0:24:32# He's the greatest dancer
0:24:32 > 0:24:36# Oh, what, wow
0:24:36 > 0:24:40# That I've ever seen
0:24:40 > 0:24:42# Oh, what, wow
0:24:42 > 0:24:48# That I've ever seen
0:24:48 > 0:24:55# We are family I got all my sisters with me
0:24:55 > 0:25:04# We are family Get up everybody and sing
0:25:04 > 0:25:11# We are family I got all my sisters with me
0:25:11 > 0:25:21# We are family Get up everybody and sing
0:25:21 > 0:25:24# Everyone can see we're together
0:25:24 > 0:25:29# As we walk on by
0:25:29 > 0:25:32# And we fly just like birds of a feather
0:25:32 > 0:25:36# I won't tell no lie
0:25:36 > 0:25:41# All, all of the people around us they say
0:25:41 > 0:25:48# Can they be that close Just let me state for the record
0:25:48 > 0:25:51# We're giving love in a family dose
0:25:51 > 0:25:55# We are family
0:25:55 > 0:25:56# Yeah, yeah, yeah,
0:25:56 > 0:25:59# I got all my sisters with me
0:25:59 > 0:26:03# We are family
0:26:03 > 0:26:08# Get up everybody and sing
0:26:08 > 0:26:15# We are family I got all my sisters with me
0:26:15 > 0:26:23# We are family Get up everybody and sing
0:26:23 > 0:26:26# Living life is fun and we've just begun
0:26:26 > 0:26:32# To get our share of this world's delights
0:26:32 > 0:26:36# High, high hopes we have for the future
0:26:36 > 0:26:40# And our goal's in sight
0:26:40 > 0:26:42# No, we don't get depressed
0:26:42 > 0:26:48# Here's what we call our golden rule
0:26:48 > 0:26:51# Have faith in you and the things you do
0:26:51 > 0:26:53# You won't go wrong, oh-no
0:26:53 > 0:26:55# This is our family jewel
0:26:55 > 0:26:59# We are family
0:26:59 > 0:27:03# I got all my sisters with me
0:27:03 > 0:27:07# We are family
0:27:07 > 0:27:11# Oh, I can hear you Get up everybody and sing
0:27:11 > 0:27:18# We are family, I got all my sisters with me
0:27:18 > 0:27:23# We are family Get up, get up
0:27:23 > 0:27:29# Get up everybody and sing
0:27:29 > 0:27:33# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
0:27:33 > 0:27:40# There for you baby
0:27:40 > 0:27:45# Get up and sing it Sing it, sing it, sing it to me
0:27:45 > 0:27:55# We flock together like birds of a feather
0:28:12 > 0:28:15INSTRUMENTAL
0:28:52 > 0:28:54CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:29:01 > 0:29:15Karmanos, London, make some noise. -- come on. I said, make some noise.
0:29:15 > 0:29:25CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Kimberley, show them what you want.
0:30:10 > 0:30:14# Ooh.
0:30:23 > 0:30:28# We are family
0:30:34 > 0:30:41# We are family
0:30:51 > 0:31:04Thank you! Come on, Kimberley Davis. So I don't want to break the vibe,
0:31:04 > 0:31:11but I have to tell you guys, I am so blessed and so thankful to be
0:31:11 > 0:31:17standing here on this stage tonight. Yeah, some of you people have got
0:31:17 > 0:31:21the right idea, light up your cellphones for me. Come on, light up
0:31:21 > 0:31:26your cellphones, unless they took them away. So a little over seven
0:31:26 > 0:31:32years ago I was diagnosed with extremely aggressive cancer and you
0:31:32 > 0:31:39will not believe this, but just two months ago I had yet another cancer
0:31:39 > 0:31:46operation. And it was actually, I mean... I can't tell you. I have
0:31:46 > 0:31:52never missed a show in my entire life and I was so sick that I
0:31:52 > 0:31:56actually missed one show and my band went on stage for me with Earth,
0:31:56 > 0:32:03wind and Fire. It was amazing. I was that close to death. But tonight I
0:32:03 > 0:32:13am standing here with you in London tonight! CHEERING
0:32:13 > 0:32:22And they cut it out of my body and I am cancer free! CHEERING
0:32:25 > 0:32:32So last year in the UK we had the best year of our lives, I mean,
0:32:32 > 0:32:44Glastonbury was incredible. So I thank the BBC so much for having us
0:32:44 > 0:32:51here tonight to end this year, this really... Semi-tragic year. And
0:32:51 > 0:32:57start with a really good New Year. Here we go, y'all! Our version of
0:32:57 > 0:32:58Get Lucky.
0:32:58 > 0:33:04# Like the legend of the Phoenix
0:33:04 > 0:33:12# All ends with beginnings
0:33:12 > 0:33:18# What keeps the planets spinning
0:33:18 > 0:33:28# The force from the beginning
0:33:36 > 0:33:37# We've come too far
0:33:37 > 0:33:44# To give up who we are
0:33:44 > 0:33:50# So let's raise the bar
0:33:50 > 0:33:56# And our cups to the stars
0:33:56 > 0:33:58# She's up all night till the sun
0:33:58 > 0:34:01# I'm up all night to get some
0:34:01 > 0:34:03# She's up all night for good fun
0:34:03 > 0:34:05# I'm up all night to get lucky
0:34:05 > 0:34:07# We're up all night till the sun
0:34:07 > 0:34:11# We're up all night to get some
0:34:11 > 0:34:13# We're up all night for good fun
0:34:13 > 0:34:15# We're up all night to get lucky
0:34:15 > 0:34:18# We're up all night to get lucky
0:34:18 > 0:34:20# We're up all night to get lucky
0:34:20 > 0:34:23# We're up all night to get lucky
0:34:37 > 0:34:40# The present has no ribbon
0:34:40 > 0:34:44# Your gift keeps on giving
0:34:44 > 0:34:47# What is this I'm feeling?
0:34:47 > 0:34:52# If you want to leave, I'm with it
0:35:06 > 0:35:07# We've come too far
0:35:07 > 0:35:09# To give up who we are
0:35:09 > 0:35:11# So let's raise the bar
0:35:11 > 0:35:12# And our cups to the stars
0:35:12 > 0:35:14# She's up all night till the sun
0:35:14 > 0:35:16# I'm up all night to get some
0:35:16 > 0:35:18# She's up all night for good fun
0:35:18 > 0:35:20# I'm up all night to get lucky
0:35:20 > 0:35:22# We're up all night till the sun
0:35:22 > 0:35:24# We're up all night to get some
0:35:24 > 0:35:26# We're up all night for good fun
0:35:26 > 0:35:28# We're up all night to get lucky
0:35:28 > 0:35:30# We're up all night to get lucky
0:35:30 > 0:35:32# We're up all night to get lucky
0:35:32 > 0:35:35# We're up all night to get lucky
0:36:04 > 0:36:09INSTRUMENTAL.
0:36:13 > 0:36:14# We've come too far
0:36:14 > 0:36:16# To give up who we are
0:36:16 > 0:36:17# So let's raise the bar
0:36:17 > 0:36:24# And our cups to the stars
0:36:24 > 0:36:26# She's up all night till the sun
0:36:26 > 0:36:28# I'm up all night to get some
0:36:28 > 0:36:30# She's up all night for good fun
0:36:30 > 0:36:31# I'm up all night to get lucky
0:36:31 > 0:36:33# We're up all night till the sun
0:36:33 > 0:36:35# We're up all night to get some
0:36:35 > 0:36:39# We're up all night for good fun
0:36:39 > 0:36:41# We're up all night to get lucky
0:36:41 > 0:36:45# We're up all night to get lucky
0:36:45 > 0:36:50# We're up all night to get lucky
0:36:50 > 0:36:55# We're up all night to get lucky
0:36:55 > 0:36:56# We're up all night to get lucky
0:36:59 > 0:37:20Let me hear you say... What? Louder!
0:37:20 > 0:37:24Let me hear you say... What? Louder!