9 of 12 Duran-songs ready for new album

In a brand new studio recording, Duran Duran keyboard player Nick Rhodes explains why the brum band’s next album has been so long in the making. The band members set the bar very high this time, he says, and that means working a lot more with each piece. And the job is not done yet.

But Rhodes also comforts the many duranies around the world that 9 out of 12 songs are more or less complete and a new album is due in the beginning of 2011.

Nick Rhodes, by the way, turned 48 this tuesday. The day was celebrated by many fans in the virtual world of Second Life, where a list of 50 favorite songs picked by Nick were aired in the legendary Club Interference.

(Thanks to Peter Jones for the tip and the link)