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Bernard Rhodes is a fashion designer, record producer, songwriter, manager and impresario who was integral to the development of the punk rock scene in the United Kingdom during the middle 1970s. He is most associated with two of the UK's best known punk bands, the Sex Pistols and The Clash. It was Rhodes who was responsible for discovering John Lydon and arranging the audition in the King's Road for him to join the Sex Pistols. He also introduced a young Mick Jones and Paul Simonon to Joe Strummer and together with Keith Levene they formed The Clash. Rhodes was an important force behind The Clash, not only managing their business, but also handling marketing and creative direction of the band. He left the band from 1979-1981 to pursue other opportunities, but tensions in the band led to singer-guitarist Joe Strummer demanding (and getting) his return in 1981. Other groups managed by Rhodes include The Specials, Dexys Midnight Runners, Subway Sect, Jo Boxers, The Lous, Black Arabs, Twenty Flight Rockers and Watts from Detroit. Rhodes built and then operated out of his Camden studio Rehearsal Rehearsals in what is now Camden Market. The area around the studio rapidly became a well known hangout for punks and contributed to the growth of Camden as a hip area. Since the break-up of The Clash, Rhodes has continued to be involved in fashion design and the music industry, as well as various political and social causes. ==Early life== Bernard Rhodes was raised in Stepney, east London. He says he never knew his father. He was then placed in an orphanage in South London where he remained until he was 15. His mother was a Russian-Jewish evacuee. She worked for Huntsman's in Saville Row making suits for Cary Grant and later Hawes & Curtis where John Pearse who later worked at Granny Takes a Trip was her apprentice. In the early 1960s Rhodes and Pearse shared a flat at 68 Hamilton Terrace, St Johns Wood. Mick Jagger, Marc Bolan, musician Mickey Finn, the Small Faces, Guy Stevens (who Rhodes later brought in to produce The Clash) were regular visitors. Towards the late 1960s Rhodes won a Design Council award for a children's educational toy he designed utilising newly developed plastic techniques. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bernard Rhodes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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