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

All the hits were there and that's what people came to hear.

Yeah.

So I was pleased for him because the firm hadn't really blossomed, you know, the thing with Jimmy.

Did you?

I never saw them.

Yeah, we know.

You weren't only just a guitar player, you were a good guitar player, Mr. Corgan.

But so you were disappointed.

I mean, just.

Well, there are certain, you know, we sort of followed Zeppelin all over the world.

Sometimes we went to each other's concerts.

And there'd be many books written about Zeppelin.

But Jim has never actually come out and said...

Yeah, I went through a really, it's been alluded to that he had his struggles with heroin and him and Bonzo were, you know, Bonzo was the wrecking ball, the one man wrecking crew.

And Jimmy was this sort of ghost of a guy.

And I'm not speaking out of turn because everyone knows that Zeppelin in the late seventies were becoming this drug fueled train wreck, really.

They just weren't happening.

You had two camps.

You had John Paul and Robert, who, you know, were the relatively sane guys.

And then you had the other camp.

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