Nile Rodgers and Chic have announced a one-off charity show in London for later this year.

The show will support the charity Autism Rocks and will take place at London's Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith on Friday, December 23.

Rodgers most recently made headlines for his tribute to David Bowie following the legend's passing.

"It's still shocking to me. It's hard to accept it, but I've had a lot of tragedy in my rock'n'roll life," he told nme.com.

"David Bowie introduced me to Stevie Ray Vaughan and I gave the eulogy at Stevie Ray's funeral.

We were doing a record and he and his brother left for a show and only one came back.

With David, our relationship was a very interesting one in that people don't realise that we've done quite a bit of music together.

Everyone talks about 'Let's Dance' but they never talk about 'Black Tie White Noise' and 'Miracle Goodnight' and 'China Girl' and 'Modern Love' and 'Ricochet' and all this other stuff.

We've done a lot of music. So I feel, in a strange way, that we were in a holding pattern.

When I work with artists I'm so immersed in the project that it feels like all I'm doing is living and breathing it for a while and as soon as that record's over I'm on to the next thing, I'm immersed in the next person's life."