Nick Rhodes
Planet Keyboards: Synth Futurism and the Sound–Image Legacy of Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes
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Nick Rhodes was never just the keyboardist of Duran Duran—he was the architect of their atmosphere. From Birmingham’s Rum Runner club to MTV’s global reach, from Rio’s shimmer to streaming-era reinventions, Rhodes built a grammar where sound and image fused into one language. Nick Rhodes — Planet Keyboards is the first book to trace his full arc with the rigor of a music historian and the immediacy of a front-row witness.
Born in 1962, Rhodes absorbed glam rock, disco, and synth experimentation before co-founding Duran Duran in 1978. His keyboards shaped the New Romantic movement, transforming sequencers and pads into narrative engines. With producers like Colin Thurston, Nile Rodgers, and Mark Ronson, he mastered the hinge between studio craft and visual spectacle, ensuring that every arpeggiator pulse aligned with fashion, video, and stage design.
This biography goes album by album, scene by scene: the early breakthrough of “Planet Earth” and “Girls on Film,” the global explosion of Rio, the Bond swagger of “A View to a Kill,” the maturity of The Wedding Album, and the reinventions of Paper Gods and Future Past. It situates Rhodes within broader currents—MTV economics, Napster’s disruption, the rise of EDM—while keeping detail grounded in patches, rigs, and performance governance.
Far from nostalgic hagiography, this book explores Rhodes as futurist and steward. It documents his exhibitions, photography, and meticulous preservation of sound through standardized rigs and archived patches. It closes with forward vectors: releasing stems, founding sound–image laboratories, and commissioning instruments that embed his method for new generations.
For fans of Duran Duran, electronic music history, or the craft of studio innovation, Planet Keyboards delivers an authoritative, cinematic account of how one Birmingham teenager redefined what keyboards—and pop futurism—could mean.