NICK Rhodes and Roger Taylor from Duran Duran paid a flying visit to the BRMB studios this week. They will be picking up an Outstanding Achievement award at the Brits next week before taking to the stage to do a short live set. They told us it will consist of three classic songs but wouldn't say which! Nick is going to give the award to his dadand it will sit in pride of place in his Redditch home.

The boys couldn't believe how much Birmingham has changed over the years, especially Broad Street.

They hope the Big Wheel is still here in April when they play in front of their home crowd at the NEC. They saw it when it was in Paris and hope to go on it if it's still here.

Birmingham Evening Mail (England); 2/13/2004