Philip Bailey turned to
Nile Rodgers to produce
Inside Out, his follow-up to
Chinese Wall, and though
Rodgers didn't turn it into a dance record on the order of his old band,
Chic (the sort of thing he did do to other clients), the result is no more than pedestrian black pop, which is why
Bailey's secular solo career ran out of gas at this point and he willingly re-upped with the new edition of
Earth, Wind & Fire. He didn't make another secular solo album for eight years.