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

Yeah.

There you go.

I think it's a kind of a two or three pronged answer because number one, what people maybe don't realize or tend to forget is that I really loved Mick and Boz and I didn't want to start another band with unknowns.

Sure, we had a high platform, a high profile because of the success of Bad Company.

But to go out and go with someone else and audition and start again.

And I really loved Mick and Boz.

And I didn't want to start again.

So when Brian Howe came on the horizon and he auditioned and he was pretty damn good.

It kind of.

Going back to what Bibi said, you have to like someone, to live with them, especially on the road.

And I was hoping that that piece of the jigsaw, Brian Howe, would fit with the other three.

We hoped that.

It wasn't there from the get-go, and it didn't.

It kind of got worse as the years went by.

And I don't want to speak ill of someone who's passed away, but we started butting heads.

And he started doing this monologue in the beginning of Bad Company, you know, which is the piano intro.

And he would take it for like three minutes.

And he'd go on this like political rant.

I'm going, what the f***?

And at one point, I went, boom, on the bass drum.

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