DURAN DURAN legend Simon Le Bon is bringing his million-selling band to Scotland next week for an historic gig at Edinburgh Castle.
But the frontman has revealed the first time he ventured north of the border was as part of a DRAG act almost 30 years ago.
Le Bon was a young, struggling drama student when he was forced to don a mini-skirt and a pair of sexy fishnet stockings for the lead part in a university Fringe show.
At the time, the blonde Birmingham University drama student had recently joined the newly-formed New Romantic group, and was still unsure about which career path to take.
But, within a couple of months the band was back in the capital supporting punk princess Hazel O’Connor at the city’s Odeon cinema as part of her 1980 Breaking Glass tour.
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