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Billy Corgan Wiki Biography

• William Patrick Corgan Jr. was born on March 17, 1967, in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, USA, and is a singer, author, record producer, poet, and composer best known as the driving force behind the band The Smashing Pumpkins. 
• He has worked in the music industry for over 30 years. 
• Billy Corgan’s net worth is unknown. 
• Billy’s net worth is estimated to be more than $50 million, according to authoritative sources. 
• Billy Corgan, an influential figure in the alternative rock scene, has contributed significantly to his net worth through his involvement in the music industry since the late 1980s. 
• Billy Corgan has always been fascinated by music, and his musical tastes have been heavily influenced by bands such as Black Sabbath, Queen, Rush, and Cheap Trick. 
• Billy is a self-taught guitarist who also performs on keyboards, harmonica, ukulele, and bass. 
• The band released a double album called “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” in 1995, and its success is evidenced by seven Grammy Award nominations and ten-time platinum certification in the United States. 
• Despite constantly changing band members, “The Smashing Pumpkins” managed to record nine albums and have even announced the release of two upcoming albums, “Day for Night” and “Monuments to an Elegy,” on which Tommy Lee is set to play drums on all of the album’s tracks. 
• Billy Corgan was able to make a name for himself and secure a profitable future largely due to his contributions to “The Smashing Pumpkins.” 
• Billy Corgan has worked with Breaking Benjamin, Sky Saxon, Courtney Love, and Scorpions in addition to the band. 
• Billy Corgan is a multi-talented singer, songwriter, and musician who has been nominated for and won awards such as American Music Awards, Grammy Awards, and MTV Video Music Awards. 
• Billy’s personal relationships have been impacted by his long battle with depression; however, he was married to Chris Fabian (1993-96) and has since had several relationships, including living with Courtney Love for several years and Jessica Simpson. 
• In the year 2015. 
• Billy Corgan is a musician from the United Kingdom. 
• Billy Corgan is a musician from the United Kingdom. 
• Cheap Trick by Black Sabbath Chicago is a city in Illinois. 
• Chris Fabian is a man of many talents. 
• Chris Fabian (born 1993–1997) is a British actor. 
• Corgan is a composer. 

Billy Corgan Quick Info

Billy Corgan Trademarks

1. Fender Stratocaster
2. Shaved head

Billy Corgan Quotes

• [on creativity] When you have it, it feels like a font that just flows through you, and everything gets really easy. And then one day it sort of slows down or it stops and you tell yourself, ‘I’m just having a bad day or a bad month’. And the next thing you know, people start doubting you, you don’t have that magic touch. And then you start doubting yourself.
• [on celebrity] Imagine if every week of your life for the rest of your life somebody is walking down the street going, ‘Here’s a picture of you when you were eighteen. Didn’t you have a better hairstyle then? Look at this T-shirt you were wearing. Don’t you want to wear that T-shirt again?’ That’s what it’s like. It’s a mirrored paradigm that you cannot escape. And if you complain, which I have, you’re not grateful.
• “You’ll never see Zwan. I’ll never go anywhere near those people. Ever. I mean, I detest them.” (about the chances of Zwan reuniting.)
• “The album was going to come out. So I did what I always did: Try to make the best of a situation. I start covering up. Put on a good face. And honestly, as God is my witness, I’m glad the thing didn’t sell, because if it had sold then it would have been really tough. I would look like I was insane to walk away from something that I’d just built.” (about his uncomfortable situation with his former band Zwan and how grateful he was when Mary Star of the Sea album flopped.)
• You can put out the big fire [Napster], but there are 100 other little fires ready to spring up, and you’ll never put them all out. Ultimately, music is going to be free.
• I hate that in magazines, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don’t think I’m the cute one.
• Don’t judge yourself by other people’s standards. You’ll always lose.
• Life is everything and nothing all at once.
• As a 28-year-old who has lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt at 16 were not necessarily correct. However, overdramatic, the desperation and hopelessness I felt at 16 was my reality.
• It’s a Backstreet Boy world, and at the end of the day, you just want to go home and kill yourself.
• (On The Tonight Show) Jay Leno: “So why is the band splitting up?” Billy Corgan: “Comedy doesn’t pay.”
• Great music completely obliterates any concept of genre
• Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I’ve certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.
• Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color you’re not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song Cow.
• (At a Smashing Pumpkins concert, just before an acoustic song) Corgan: “Are you ready to rock!” (Crowd cheers.) Corgan: “Well then you are in the wrong place.”
• Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.
• The thing that makes it all worth it is when somebody comes up and says ‘I had a really hard time in my life and your album really helped me.’ As long as that happens, all the idiots in the world and all the stupid press can say what they want to. It just doesn’t matter.
• We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love, rock ‘n’ roll, whatever. But we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do to their bodies. We’re just a rock band.
• For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I’ve done all right.
• We used to compete with Nirvana. That was good. That was real. That was viscerally good. Now we compete with imitation-Nirvana. There’s nothing good in that. …It’s really sad.
• The basic Pumpkins philosophy from the beginning was that everything had already been done. You couldn’t write better songs than the Beatles, you couldn’t be heavier than Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath, you couldn’t be cooler than Cheap Trick. There was no way you were gonna top that. So all you could really do was try to rip off what you liked about it and sort of throw it back at people in a different way.

Billy Corgan Important Facts

• His father’s ancestry is Irish, Scottish, and English. His mother’s lineage is half Belgian (Flemish) and half Italian/Sicilian.
• Huge fan of professional wrestling.
• recording a debut solo album after splitting up with his former band, Zwan. [2004]
• His first solo album, entitled “The Future Embrace” was released on the 21st of June. [June 2005]
• He first appeared with his head shaved in an episode of “Saturday Night Live” in 1995.
• The last footage of Billy with hair is the video for “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”.
• Started shaving his head when he began losing his hair in the 1990s.
• Attended Glenbard North High School, also attended by Kiele Sanchez.
• Co-wrote the Courtney Love and Hole song, “Celebrity Skin”.
• The Smashing Pumpkins album, “Machina II”, was never released in stores. Instead, out of his angst toward the animosity of the record company, he released the album for download, free of charge, from his website.
• The only member of the Smashing Pumpkins to appear on every album.
• During the band’s over 20 years together, the Smashing Pumpkins put forward nine critically acclaimed albums: Gish, Siamese Dream, Pisces Iscariot, Mellon Collie, and the Infinite Sadness, Adore, Machina the Machines of God, Machina II the Friends and Enemies of Modern Music, Zeitgeist, and Oceania.
• Composed most of the songs for both his bands, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Zwan. He also co-wrote the album “Celebrity Skin” for Courtney Love’s band Hole.
• After buying a pawn shop guitar, he discovered that it whined when he stopped playing it. Instead of trading in the guitar, he actually wrote the whine into the song “Mayonaise”.
• The debut album of his new band ‘Zwan’ has been a critical fave, as most of Smashing Pumpkins’ albums were, and the band plans to spend 2003 touring in support of the disc. Corgan says Zwan will play no Smashing Pumpkins material in their shows because he wants the band to establish itself independently of the Pumpkins.
• Billy Corgan made a short movie with his friends in the early 1980s, titled “Alien 1/2”. The premise was basically a semi-sequel to Ridley Scott’s “Alien” before James Cameron’s “Aliens” was released in 1986. Corgan and his friends play astronauts who travel to a distant planet, only to be attacked by an alien (it’s actually a plush Tazmanian devil doll). Corgan and his comrades use such tools as a pink hairdryer to combat the beast, which flies above their heads, thanks to some fishing line. Action sequences include a spaceship landing on the planet’s surface, which was achieved by a thin piece of paper, folded into a titriangularhape (for the spaceship), and what appears to be a flat picture of a red planet (most likely Mars). Corgan utters the dramatic line, “And nowwwww, the end is near!”. Bits of this movie was broadcasted on VH1’s “Before They Were Rock Stars”.
• Has formed a new band called ‘Zwan’ with former Smashing Pumpkins drummer, Jimmy Chamberlin, guitarist Matt Sweeney (from New York indie rock group Chavez), bassist/guitarist/keyboardist David Pajo (from Papa M, Ariel M, Tortoise) and later adding bassist Paz Lenchantin (from A Perfect Circle).
• Guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist, and songwriter for the band Smashing Pumpkins from 1988-2000. When asked about how his band and others from the “alternative revolution” did in changing the music industry for the better, he responded, “We didn’t do a very good job.”
• Has a large red birthmark that covers the top of his left hand.
• Briefly joined the British band New Order in 2001, performing live as stand-in guitarist.

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