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Billy Corgan on 30 years of Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
After heavy pushback from Virgin Records, he released his vision in 1995: the double-album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Long before then, the Pumpkins’ label, fans and detractors had ...
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Behind the Making of “Tonight, Tonight” by The Smashing Pumpkins—From Billy Corgan Himself
Tonight” earned Billy Corgan and The Smashing Pumpkins GRAMMY nominations and a slew of MTV awards, it was a riff that went nowhere in a different key. Billy joined our Members for a Q&A Workshop and ...
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The 10 must-hear B-sides and outtakes by Smashing Pumpkins
The period around their sprawling 1995 masterpiece Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness was an insanely fruitful time for the Pumpkins. This slow-building rock stomper took a leftover riff from ...
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Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan on the making of every one of their albums
But it doesn’t work like that. A very common review for Mellon Collie was, “The most unlikely rock star. How did this guy get here?” It was like being in a Kafka book. I kept thinking ...
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Billy Corgan on his new podcast ‘The Magnificent Others’: “I’d like to celebrate people in the culture who are misunderstood”
READING FESTIVAL Photo of SMASHING PUMPKINS’ Billy Corgan (Photo by Mick Hutson/Redferns) This year marks the 30th anniversary of Smashing Pumpkins’ classic ‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite ...