Simon Kirke
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863 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 19 Nov
Simon Kirke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
And Zeppelin, of course, at that time were bigger than sliced bread.
And they said, they eschewed that whole thing about singles and so on.
And their albums sold by the ton.
So when Peter Grant asked us if we'd like to be on their label, we said, well, think about it.
Yes.
You guys were the first artists to sign to Swan Song?
And it was a perfect storm.
Yeah.
Because we were like greyhounds let out of the trap, just, you know, allied with this amazing Led Zeppelin and Swan Song Records.
No.
B.B.
King said a great thing years ago in an interview.
He said, I don't like playing with geniuses.
I like playing with people that I like, that I get on with.
And it's so true.
I play with geniuses, and to a man, they're a pain in the ass.
You know, you have those moments of, whoa, what the, that's incredible, followed by great bouts of, oh, what guy's going to walk through the door tonight, I wonder.
with mick you had a guy so you know with mick mick was number one he was fun funny um gregarious easy to get on with and he just happened to write these wonderful songs everything was like one
straight finger because it was moving on can't get enough ready for love beautiful song yeah and he was just easy to get on with and and and paul was had this weight taken off his shoulders he his writing partner was someone that he liked and got on with and it was just a wonderful marriage you know um so that's that's we were like
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