[1] He was Fela Kuti's manager in the 1960s[2] and was source of inspiration for many Nigerian musicians who started out in the 1960s and 1970s.
[4] While at Oxford, he met a German music teacher who promised to give him lessons if he moved to Germany.
Rhodes obliged and moved to Germany, where he was taught music history, conducting and orchestration.
To survive, he played in quartets, jazz clubs and worked with the British Forces Broadcasting Service.
He left WNTV and set up Rhodes Sound Vision, a music and visual production company, which managed and produced artists, the best known of who was Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.