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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And physically, you could see him jerk.

He said, what was all that in the dressing room?

Don't you use this band as a political forum?

He was a little red around the neck, shall we say.

And it just got worse and worse.

I love this stuff.

Yeah, we asked him to leave.

He'll say he left, but we did ask him to leave.

And it's a shame because I know that his heart was in the right place.

And when someone passes away, particularly at a relatively young age, I felt for him and his family.

Yeah.

Well, also, he had this alliance with this producer called Terry Thomas.

And they started writing all the songs.

And we left Peter Grant because the whole Zeppelin Grant thing just dissolved.

And we went with this other manager who managed Foreigner called Bud Prager.

Okay.

And Foreigner were enjoying this huge success.

And Brian and Terry started writing these pretty commercial songs that Foreigner could have done or Journey could have done.

It was drifting further and further away from the original Bad Company.

So Mick, being one of the prime writers of the original Bad Company, started getting left out in the cold.

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