1. Nick Rhodes was born on Nicholas James Bates; 8 June 1962 and is an English keyboardist and producer, best known as a founding member and the keyboardist of the band Duran Duran.
20 Facts About Nick Rhodes
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Nick Rhodes has been the only constant member of the group since their 1978 inception.
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Nick Rhodes attended Woodrush High School in Wythall, north Worcestershire.
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The club owners became the band's managers, and Nick Rhodes began working at the club as a disc jockey.
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Nick Rhodes reportedly owns the Duran Duran name; this was mentioned in the Andy Warhol diaries.
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The band achieved rapid success, and Nick Rhodes was a driving force throughout.
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Nick Rhodes was quick to recognise the potential of the music video, and pushed the band to put more effort into their early videos than seemed warranted at the time.
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Nick Rhodes's digitally altered voice is heard on the title track to the 1997 album Medazzaland.
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Nick Rhodes studied production techniques while in the studio with Duran Duran, eventually helping to mix several tracks on the Rio album, and was a co-producer on many of the band's later albums.
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In 2002, Nick Rhodes co-produced and played additional synthesizers in nine tracks of the album Welcome to the Monkey House by the Dandy Warhols.
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In 1999, Nick Rhodes reunited with Duran Duran's original vocalist, Stephen Duffy, to create new music based on some of the earliest Duran music the two had written together.
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Also in 2011, Nick Rhodes wrote the afterword to the award-winning '80s 7-inch vinyl cover art book Put the Needle on the Record.
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In 2021, Nick Rhodes collaborated with Stewart Bevan's daughter Wendy Bevan on the series of Astronomia albums.
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In 2022, Nick Rhodes collaborated with Rob Crow, Roy Mayorga, Aaron Tanner, and more on a cover of the Residents' song, "Mahogany Wood".
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Nick Rhodes met Julie Anne Friedman at a yacht party while on an American tour in 1982, and married her on 18 August 1984.
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Nick Rhodes has had several long relationships with various women but has not remarried.
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Nick Rhodes continues to showcase photography on occasion, including in British magazines such as Tatler and occasionally appears at the Cannes International Film Festival.
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In November 2011, Nick Rhodes received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts degree from the University of Bedfordshire, for his services to the music industry.
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Nick Rhodes appears in Burke's Peerage under his second cousin's entry for the family of Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle, being related to the Highfield family through his paternal grandmother, Irene Lavinia Bates.
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Nick Rhodes moved to central London two years after Duran Duran's success and continues to reside there.