“It’s like going to a Chinese restaurant,” added Rhodes. It’s a good thing, but it’s also a bad thing because when you’re creating, you have to limit yourself.”
The theme from Metropolis or whatever, stuff you would never have been able to go near at the end of the 70s. You can bring songs from all over the world, all over history, and all over your life into the studio with you.
“When we were working on this album, there’s so much music available. “The influences on the album are more global as well,” said Taylor. “It brings a whole different colour and texture to the sound.” “We opened the album to collaborations, which he hadn’t done a lot of before,” said Rhodes. Bringing in other musicians, other voices, helps that.” We wanted to make an album and we knew that we couldn’t make just another business-as-usual album if we were going to get anyone’s attention. There’s so much going on, there’s so much out there. “Getting people’s attention is the biggest challenge,” said Taylor. Now the band is back with their 14th studio album, Paper Gods, and it’s a winner – although when you’re Duran Duran and fans are focused on your past body of work, it can be hard to get people to notice. While they had their heyday in the 80s with a string of hits like Rio, Save a Prayer and Girls on Film, which carried them into the 90s with Come Undone and Ordinary World ( the list goes on and on), they have scarcely slowed down over the years. It’s all about the moment.”ĭuran Duran, though, has had several moments. “People who are drawn to pop music are not the ones who are concerned about the long life of a project. “It’s not the kind of job you get into if you’re concerned about what you’re going to be doing in middle age,” said Taylor, the band’s longtime bass player. It’s the kind of longevity that could make anyone, in any industry, jealous, and in the music industry it’s practically unheard of (no one’s talking to you, Rolling Stones, move along). Rhodes' style of flamboyant androgyny has defined the group's decadent pop mode in symbiosis with the band's remaining analog synth sound, earning them the status as a truly successful British band with respectable longevity.J ohn Taylor and Nick Rhodes founded Duran Duran almost 40 years ago – 37, to be precise. 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.
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They later produced tracks for Blondie's reunion 1996 album, recording Pop Trash Movie for Duran's 2000 album Pop Trash.
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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. Birmingham-born Nicholas James Bates changed his surname to Rhodes early in his career as keyboardist for British supergroup Duran Duran.
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