Dangerous Firm’s two surviving authentic members, singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke, will reunite to play two songs through the band’s induction into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame on November eighth.
Kirke revealed the information in an interview with Lyndsanity! with Lyndsey Parker, telling the host, “I feel the key is out that we’ll carry out. I don’t know — I’d get into bother, however I noticed some Google information that Dangerous Firm will carry out on the Corridor of Fame. So, I’ll cautiously say sure. I’m not at liberty to say which songs. I imply, fairly truthfully, I don’t give a shit. We’re gonna play, and no matter Paul chooses is ok by me.”
He added, “And simply to play with [Paul] once more is gonna be an actual thrill for me, ’trigger I missed him. I missed enjoying with the band. I miss enjoying significantly with Paul, ’trigger he’s such a beautiful singer.”
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Kirke went on to say, “We did our final present over 5 years in the past, in Las Vegas, of all locations the place Dangerous Firm and Lynyrd Skynyrd have been flip-flopping a headline tour. And it was the most effective gigs we ever performed on. So thank God we completed on an excellent gig and never a shitty one.”
Just a few years in the past, Rodgers revealed that he had suffered a number of strokes all through the years, practically ending his singing profession. Requested by Parker in regards to the frontman’s present vocal skills, Kirke responded, “I haven’t heard him sing since [we last played together], fairly truthfully. I do know he has sung, and we’re gonna do a few rehearsals for the cameras and so forth and so forth. However when you have got a voice that naturally good, it’s gonna take a hell of quite a bit for it to fray or devalue or no matter. So I feel he’s gonna be superb for the 2 songs that we’ve chosen.”
Sadly, fellow authentic Dangerous Firm member Mick Ralphs died at age 81 in June of this 12 months, however Kirke takes solace in the truth that the guitarist discovered of the band’s induction into the Rock Corridor earlier than he handed away.
In an interview with Defenders of the Religion over the summer time, Kirke stated, “I’m additionally blissful, as a result of pricey previous Mick Ralphs, our guitarist who handed away a few months in the past, discovered that Dangerous Firm was going to be inducted simply a few weeks earlier than he lastly handed away. That made us very, very blissful certainly.”
Dangerous Firm’s different authentic member, bassist Boz Burrell, died at age 60 in 2006.
The Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony will happen November eighth on the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, and can stream reside on Disney+. Together with Dangerous Firm, different 2025 inductees embody Soundgarden, The White Stripes, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, OutKast, and extra.
Watch Simon Kirke’s interview with Lyndsanity! with Lyndsey Parker under.
