Simon Kirke

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863 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 19 Nov

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Simon Kirke | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 19 Nov 2025 podcast

So I went down to London.

And this was at the height of the blues boom in England, where, you know, Albert King and Bebe and Freddie, Joshua.

Howlin' Wolf.

I mean, they couldn't get arrested in this country, but they'd go to Europe in these package tours.

Yeah.

And they'd sell out the album.

They were.

And then the sax tour came in 67, I believe.

I never saw it, but wow.

Well, Otis said, never put me on after Sam and Dave again.

Because they were so.

Rightly so.

They were something else.

I went down to London and I had two years.

So the clock was ticking and I would answer ads in the Melody Maker, which is the primo.

Sure.

musical newspaper in england at the time and drama wanted at the same time i'm doing car washing construction and working on building sites construction site and i answered several auditions and i never got in any of them really

No, no, except for one.

And it was a toss-up between me and this other drummer who was the son of the manager.

And the band was called Love Affair, which was this pop band that had quite a big success.

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