Rhodes has since co-produced and played keyboard tracks on an album by The Dandy Warhols, and in 2001 the original line-up of Duran Duran reunited to record new material. By the late nineties, Rhodes started writing lyrics for Duran Duran and reunited with Stephen Duffy, an early singer, releasing Dark Circles, under the name The Devils. They later produced tracks for Blondie's reunion 1996 album, recording Pop Trash Movie for Duran's 2000 album Pop Trash. A side-project, Arcadia, in the mid-eighties culminated in a multi-platinum selling album So Red the Rose, released a year before Duran Duran reunited in 1986.Īnother project (collaborating with Duran member Warren Cuccurullo) in the early nineties, entitled TV Mania, focused on social junk culture. Rhodes, who has retained the rights to the band's name, mixed several tracks on the Rio album and has co-produced many of the band's later albums. The band, founded in 1978 with fellow art school friend John Taylor, have followed a successful career spanning 25 years, with Simon Le Bon on vocals. What can we expect from your performance at the Emirates Airline Dubai International Jazz Festival? A history of post-’70s dance-pop in 90 minutes.ĭubai Media City, UAE | Dubaijazzfest.Birmingham-born Nicholas James Bates changed his surname to Rhodes early in his career as keyboardist for British supergroup Duran Duran. You have to be interested in growing as a musician and as an artist. You have to be interested in current movements in music and fashion. How does a band remain relevant when it spans four decades? You have to care. Today, we’re more relaxed and have more time for what matters in life. It made for a bumpy ride a lot of the time. Consequently, there was a tremendous amount of emotion and drama invested in the slightest events. How different is that early fame in comparison to the type you enjoy today? Things were moving fast in the early ’80s, and we weren’t fully formed as adult human animals (speaking for myself, at least). A girl came up to me some time later and told me she took the used tissues, so she could ‘catch my cold’. I had a cold and was using tissues, throwing them into a wastebasket under the desk. We always judged success on our artistic achievements.īut those times must have been pretty crazy? John Taylor: I remember doing a press conference in Atlanta, Georgia, not too many years ago. I still find this culture quite baffling. Fame became something very different after the birth of reality TV, creating a new generation of young people who just wanted to be famous for the sake of it. When we formed the band, it wasn’t to become famous – that was just something that occasionally happened as a consequence of becoming enormously popular. But we never really measured anything in terms of fame. How did you cope with the levels of fame you’ve experienced? Our trajectory in the ’80s truly took us by surprise – although we did have an extraordinary time. We collaborate with other artists from different fields and constantly embark upon new journeys. Duran Duran is really more like an art project than a band. Why do you think Duran Duran has lasted 40 years (and counting)? Nick Rhodes: I think we’ve remained together because we’re still able to inspire each other. Open Skies catch up with Nick Rhodes and John Taylor of Duran Duran ahead of their gig in DubaiĢ4 January 2018 Open Skies speaks to Duran Duran founding members, Nick Rhodes and John Taylor on playing at the Emirates Airline International Jazz Festival and dealing with fame
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