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

I don't think he auditioned.

Yeah.

But he was approached and he turned them down.

Well, it was a different style.

I mean, Purple in their heyday, fantastic band.

But they were the kings or the forerunners or precursors to heavy metal.

And Ian was one of those...

I saw almost operatic before Freddie.

I like your... And Paul was more blues, more Otis, you know.

So it wouldn't have worked.

Yes.

Not 100%.

The story of the formation of Bad Company...

just going back a little bit going through that sort of forged in that fire of free you know the kind of bonded us you know we were we're experiencing the demise of our little band that became so big and we loved each other but when paul kossoff started spiraling out of control me and rogers kind of bonded

on a personal level.

Andy Fraser kind of went his own way.

So when I called Paul in spring of 73, he said, I've been in Brazil just trying to get my head straight away from the mess of free.

I said, hey, Paul, what are you up to?

And he said, well, I've met this great guy from Mott the Hoople.

um mick ralphs and we want to form a band so it was mainly mick and paul uh paul had formed a band called peace and they were opening for the hoopoe on a tour of england oh okay and mick was getting disenchanted with ian hunter and he wanted to go his own way and he had a little cassette

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