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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Let's go.
Yeah.
so after two years you know uh i i was big friends with mick jones from foreigner who said look i've got this guy in the wings we've been grooming because lou graham wants to hang it up he's got medical problems la la la and his name is brian howe and he's a good singer he's not like paul but he's he wants to work he's a good singer uh you want to check him out i said
Yeah, okay.
And I met Brian, who was... No, he was nothing like Paul.
He was a different style.
More like Ian Coverdale.
Okay.
You know, um...
or Ian Gillan, Dave Coverdale, I'm sorry.
More like Dave or Ian Gillan.
But he wanted to work, he was a good-looking guy and he was eager, and we took him on board.
And then the whole direction of the band kind of skewed away from the blues, you know, and became more heavy metal.
And I'm honest now.
It was a period where, which I do regret, and I'll put my hand up and say, me and Mick kind of made a knee-jerk decision, and we took this guy on board.
And it's weird, Billy, because what happened when Brian passed away a few years ago, there were all these Facebook and Instagram dedications to him from kids or, you know, people now who had only come to realize about Bad Company when Brian was in the band.
They didn't know about the former, you know, incarnation.
So they were saying, who's this guy, Paul Rogers?
I mean...
Why don't you mention Brian in the Hall of Fame?
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