What You Hear Is What You Get: The Best of Bad Company (1993) (live)
Company of Strangers (1995)
Stories Told & Untold (1996) The Original Bad Company Anthology (1999) (compilation CD)
Discography: Simon Kirke
7 Rays of Hope (2005)
Influences
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Sounds Like
Simon Kirke & Ringo All Starr - All Right Now
Lessons from a Legend: Simon Kirke - Promo
Simon Kirke with the Frankie Miller Band ( I'd Lie to you for your Love )
Bad Company
Drum Solo by Simon Kirke at Turn Right
Opening act - London O2 Arena 2007 (LED ZEPPELIN Show )....
Simon Kirke was born in London on July 28, 1950 and spent his early years living in the borderlands of Wales.
Leaving school at the age of 17, he returned to London and set about finding a drumming job in the booming blues scene. After a fruitless 18 months he was resigned to returning to the country when he met Paul Kossoff who was playing in a band called the Black Cat Bones. Simon was offered the drumming position in the band for which he played for 6 months.
Simon and Paul Kossoff left the band and together with Paul Rodgers and Andy Fraser formed Free. In the four years Free were together they had an enormous influence on many bands on both sides of the Atlantic. Their biggest hit “Alright Now” has become a rock classic and recently polled over 2 million plays on the radio.
After the disbanding of Free in 1973, Simon and Paul Rodgers once again teamed up to form Bad Company. They were joined by guitarist Mick Ralphs (Mott the Hoople) and bassist Boz Burrell (King Crimson). Bad Company became one of the biggest and best live acts which have sold approximately 60 million singles and albums to date.
As well as touring with Ringo Starr’s All Star Band on three separate occasions, Simon is an accomplished songwriter releasing “Seven Rays of Hope” in 2005. He has also worked on projects with Wilson Pickett, Bo Didley, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kieth Richards, Ronnie Woods, and Eric Clapton.
A governor on the board of NARAS (the Grammy Committee)
This Official Myspace for Simon Kirke is maintained by ARN
Bad Company is our featured artist on Classic Artists Today, syndicated radio show this week! Simon Kirke joins us!! For more info and how to tune-in, visit www.classicartiststoday.com
Hi Simon! It's been a while! Hope you are doing well! Still hoping to catch a show of yours one of these days! Hoping all is well your way and with your family :)
Adore the pic of you at drums...same one I printed out and put in frame along with autograph you gave me in 2001 - Chicago. Hope you are well, and would love to see you out on the road again with Paul...you guys are the ultimate team....keep rocking handsome.
Thanks for being an inspiration and a great solid drummer,ive learned from watching your vids andseeing you live with bad comapny on a couple of occasions,your a great drummer,hope all is well
been a while, since we jammed in Columbus, LA and London at RRFC....hope all is well....check out my son's new video of our new song "Press Start to End".....the song was placed on MTV show Real World....
Hi Simon! Thanks for making WHiSKeY DoG a friend. It's an honor for us! Also....Man..on "Mr. Big" you are SO "in the pocket" solid! Every drummer should be listening to your body of work and learn how it's supposed to be done! WHiSKeY DoG salutes Mr. Simon Kirke..............
Happy belated Birthday....heard you and Paul are back on tour! Brad Gregory has been working with Sterling on getting her music back on some MTV shows. Hope all is well and your family is fine. Joy
Hi Simon; greetings from San Francisco. We caught the Bad Company show in Atlanta. Was great to see the band in action again. You guys rocked the house! Was a pleasure meeting you, Mick and Paul. Can't wait for the video! Hope to see Bad Company on the West Coast.
You have always been an integral part of any band you drummed for. I was listening to the Free box, Songs of Yesterday and your drumming is so smooth. Just great! Thanks for the add!
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