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

And he's a bit of a philistine.

He didn't like music.

He wrote poetry.

And I found a book of his poems years ago, which kind of moved me to tears because he was a bit of a closet, you know, poet laureate.

I was amazed.

Dad, you wrote this?

Yeah.

Electricity.

Well, we got what's called a council house, which is a state-owned dwelling.

And you go on the list.

And we moved from this cottage up on the hill in the country with no electricity or running water.

And we finally got the news that we'd been accepted into this state-owned house, which had electricity.

And within a month, and I'll never forget mum scraping the wall and clicking the light switch and the light went on.

She almost burst into tears.

So we got a TV, a black and white TV.

And the very first thing that I saw when the thing, you turn it on and that little white dot opened up, was this thing called, a program called All That Jazz.

And it featured big bands.

All in black and white.

So I'm riveted by this.

And the drummer and the lights were shining off the cymbals.

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