Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes ( born June 8, 1962 in Moseley, England; birth name Nicholas James Bates ) is a British keyboard player and member of the pop group Duran Duran. Furthermore, Nick Rhodes is the only member who has been continuously since formation of the band in 1978.
Life
Nick Bates is the only child of wealthy parents, who were owners of a toy store in Birmingham. 1978 Bates left school at the age of 16, and founded Duran Duran with his friend John Taylor, whom he had known since school days. At the time when the name Duran Duran was chosen as a band name, he decided to change his name for aesthetic reasons in Rhodes. "Nicholas James Bates [ ... ] Realised did did what no name for an aspiring pop star. "
As Duran Duran had assembled in the cast, who brought it to world fame later, in the years 1979/1980, they began in a night club in Birmingham called "The Rum Runner " to play. The owners of the nightclub were her manager. Rhodes began on June 8, 1980 - the day of his coming of age - to work in this nightclub as a DJ. ( Previously, he had the club as an unaccompanied minor may not enter. ) In an interview with " Rolling Stone " said Rhodes 1984: "I was fourteen, John what sixteen When We Met. Neither of us had any brothers or sisters. A common interest in music - in fact we were Both crazy about music - and art made us brothers -. Or sort of "
Rhodes ' role in Duran Duran
Rhodes was only 18 years old when Duran Duran recorded their first album in winter 1980/1981. He became famous for his androgynous look, wearing (as of this at the beginning of the 1980s in heterosexual men still frowned upon was ) strong makeup and constantly changed his hair color.
Although all the songs are always specified as a composition of the entire group, it was Nick Rhodes, who composed most of the tunes.
Nick Rhodes is a self-taught artist who enjoys experimenting with sounds on his analog synthesizers since the beginning of his career. Particular mention should be his keyboard themes for the songs Save a Prayer, A View to a Kill and Come undone. His arrangements were rich and provided with many layers. Although he grappled with digital synthesizers, remained unbroken his love for the analogs and uses the analog synthesizer, even in this millennium. End of the 1990s, Nick Rhodes also began to write lyrics for Duran Duran. Up to this point, the lyrics of the songs came primarily from Simon Le Bon and occasionally by John Taylor.
Rhodes was also the one who discovered the potential of the music video as a new medium, even before MTV was launched.
He is the sole owner rights to the brand name "Duran Duran".
Rhodes as a producer
Rhodes studied production techniques while he was with Duran Duran in the studio and helped several songs on the album Rio to mix and became a co-producer of many later Duran Duran albums.
In early 1983, he discovered the group Kajagoogoo and produced their debut album " White Feathers ". Nick Rhodes once said jokingly that he will never do that again because Kajagoogoos hit single " Too Shy " the song was, that prevented Duran Duran's " Hungry Like The Wolf" # 1 reached in the English charts.
Rhodes and Cuccurullo jointly wrote three songs for Blondie's reunion album in 1996. 's Songs, however, were not selected. One of these three songs called " Pop Trash Movie " was then recorded album Pop Trash later for Duran Duran.
2002 Rhodes co-produced the album Welcome To The Monkey House by The Dandy Warhols. On this album, he also played some keyboards.
Other Projects
With his bandmates Simon Le Bon and Roger Taylor Rhodes founded in 1985, the band Arcadia. The only album by Arcadia So Red the Rose received multi-platinum.
In 1999, he teamed up with Stephen Duffy, the Duran singer from the early days, and participated with this, the first Duran Duran demos again. These recordings were released on the album Dark Circles, and the band was founded for this project called The Devils.
Private life
Rhodes married on August 18, 1984 Julie Anne Friedman ( model and actress from Des Moines, Iowa, USA). He had a year earlier, when he was with Duran Duran on tour of the U.S., met at a yacht party. The marriage lasted until 1993., You have a daughter named Tatiana Orchid Leigh, born in August 1986.
Nick Rhodes was a friend of Andy Warhol and attended the world exhibitions.
End of 1984, Rhodes published a book with abstract photographs titled Interference. Many of the photographs contained in the book were exhibited at the Hamilton Gallery in London.
Due to the influence of the health-conscious Cuccurullo Rhodes became a vegetarian in the early 2000s.
Since his divorce from Friedman Rhodes wrong with various prominent women from the London scene.