Dangerous Firm followers can breathe a sigh of reduction. The band will certainly carry out on the 2025 Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction ceremony subsequent month.
The band’s drummer, Simon Kirke, shared the information throughout a latest interview with journalist Lyndsey Parker that he and Paul Rodgers are excited concerning the forthcoming occasion on the Peacock Theatre on Nov. 8 . “I feel the key is out that we’ll carry out. I don’t know, I would get into bother,” he says. “However I noticed some Google Information [update] that ‘Dangerous Firm will carry out on the Corridor of Fame’. So, I’ll cautiously say sure. I am not at liberty to say which songs. I imply, fairly actually, I do not give a s–t. We’ll play, and no matter Paul chooses is okay by me! Simply to play with him once more goes to be an actual thrill for me. I missed him. I missed enjoying with the band. I miss enjoying significantly with Paul. He is such an exquisite singer.”
How Lengthy Has it Been Since Dangerous Firm’s Final Present?
The band turned in a fiery 12-song efficiency on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas again in 2019, a part of a collection of ongoing exhibits they’d performed that 12 months, sharing the stage with longtime mates Lynyrd Skynyrd. “It was the most effective gigs we ever performed,” he remembers now. “So, thank God we completed on gig and never a sh—y one!
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He is trying ahead to enjoying music once more along with his outdated good friend. “I have not heard him sing since [the Las Vegas show,] fairly actually,” the drummer says. “I do know he has sung, and we’re going to do a few rehearsals for the cameras and so forth and so forth. However when you could have a voice that naturally good, it’ll take a hell of so much for it to fray or devalue. So, I feel he’ll be high-quality for the 2 songs that we have chosen.”
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Kirke and Rodgers Just lately Mentioned Goodbye to Mick Ralphs
The co-founding guitarist handed away in June after a protracted sickness and his longtime bandmate confirms that he and Rodgers just lately had an opportunity to pay correct tribute to each Mick, in addition to late Dangerous Firm bassist Boz Burrell, who died in 2006. Joyfully, they had been joined by further family and friends. “We had a farewell memorial bash for Mick at his favourite pub, simply outdoors Henley in England,” he shares. “It is referred to as the Crooked Billet; God is aware of what meaning. It is concerning the measurement of your lounge. There have been about 70 or 80 mates, outdated highway crew, wives, ex-wives, Boz Burrell’s widow, only a entire bunch of mates. We had a dinner and I performed seven or eight Dangerous Firm songs, after which Zak Starkey performed drums on a bunch of Mott the Hoople songs. It was a beautiful evening. I am so glad I went over.”
You Can Hear Some New Dangerous Firm Recordings
Whereas the group has been lengthy dormant in the case of making new music, Rodgers and Kirke did take part in a number of the songs on the brand new all-star compilation, Cannot Get Sufficient: A Tribute to Dangerous Firm, which is out now. The singer visitors with each Halestorm and Blackberry Smoke, whereas he and Kirke teamed up along with Joe Elliott and Phil Collen of Def Leppard for a recent tackle the Dangerous Co basic, “Seagull.”
A longtime fan, Elliott was elated for the chance and was proud of the way it turned out. “I bought a lovely electronic mail from Paul, the place he wrote, ‘Joe, you have accomplished such a stellar job on this. I actually did not wish to do something on it, as a result of it sounds so good,” he remembers in a dialog with UCR. However the Dangerous Firm vocalist, nudged by his spouse, Cynthia, finally relented. “He does [a few different things] simply to say that he is on it, you already know? I mentioned, ‘I am glad you probably did, as a result of I need to have the ability to go to my grave figuring out that I am on a document with Paul Rodgers.'”
Hearken to Joe Elliott and Phil Collen Carry out ‘Seagull’ With Paul Rodgers and Simon Kirke
Methods to Watch This Yr’s Induction Ceremony
The festivities will air stay on Disney+, at 5PM PST, 6PM MST, 7PM CST and 8PM EST, and will probably be out there for a la carte streaming after the ceremony. ABC may even current a primetime particular with efficiency highlights on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026. These standout moments will start streaming the subsequent day on Hulu.
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Dangerous Firm Albums Ranked
Signed to Led Zeppelin’s label, the supergroup confronted member adjustments and later skilled public indifference on its path to induction within the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame.
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