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

We never used a real studio.

Yeah, yeah.

And that took a toll, particularly on Paul.

And you know as a musician that a vocalist only has his throat to rely on.

We're lucky.

We can turn up the volume, or I can ask the guys in the monitor, turn me up.

But the vocalist is kind of naked for 90 minutes or 120 minutes.

And we were on this carousel of tour album, tour album, tour album.

And Paul at one point said, I need a break, guys, because we're doing arenas.

I mean, it's lovely on paper, the limos and the 20,000 sellouts and, you know, the whole, you know, plethora of stuff that can lead you down dark roads.

And we had all of that in spades.

Luckily enough, we were young enough to be able to enjoy it and not pay too much of a toll.

The recovery time.

So it's part of the equation.

But there came a time when Paul Rogers said, I want a break.

And we didn't get it.

And he said... Was there a reason you didn't get the... There were a lot of drugs involved.

And I'm not pointing my finger at anyone, but now that Peter has passed away, Peter Grant was going through his own struggles with addiction.

And Zeppelin were kind of on the ropes.

And that whole late 90s...

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