Smashing Pumpkins: Billy Corgan and the Shapeshifter

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Smashing Pumpkins interview in 1996 about Jonathan Melvoin’s death and firing Jimmy Chamberlin (MTV)

Heroin Linked to Death on Smashing Pumpkins Tour (LA Times)

Drummer Pleads Guilty (NY Times)

DEATH, ARREST CAST PALL ON SMASHING PUMPKINS (Chicago Tribune)

Inside the Smashing Pumpkins' Double-Platinum Soap Opera (Rolling Stone)

Billy Corgan Claims George W. Bush White House Tried To Enlist Him For Influence Campaign (Stereogum)

Smashing Pumpkins' Band Drama: Complete History (Rolling Stone)

billycorgan, posts by tag: confessions (LiveJournal)

The Smashing Pumpkins song where Billy Corgan demanded blood (Far Out)

What happened to Smashing Pumpkins bassist D'arcy Wretzky? (Far Out)

Former Pumpkins Bassist Nabbed on Drug Charges (Rolling Stone)

Billy Corgan on His Dad Selling Guns and Drugs for the Mob (Joe Rogan Experience)

Billy Corgan Discusses Nirvana (Joe Rogan Experience)

Smashing Pumpkins in Their Own Words – ”Cherub Rock” (Rick Beato)

When Pavement penned a track to insult The Smashing Pumpkins (Far Out)

Why Linda Perry kicked Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan out of a recording session (Louder)

Corgan: Pearl Jam's success is a mystery to me (Louder)

The band Billy Corgan called a “fucking rip-off” of The Smashing Pumpkins (Far Out)

Billy Corgan says Radiohead went from an “enemy band” to one of the most important of the 1990s (Far Out)

Billy Corgan believes he slept with a shapeshifter (Far Out)

D'arcy Wretzky Mug Shot -- Arrested for Horsing Around (TMZ)

Former Smashing Pumpkins bassist D'arcy Wretzky's probation on drunken driving arrest now half over (M Live)

Smashing Pumpkins Artist of the Year 1994 (SPIN Magazine)

Billy Corgan explains why he wore Kurt Cobain’s coat during the 1994 VMA’s.. [ew. I did not know this.] Caller: ”..I wanted to... (@ihatecourtneylove on Tumblr)

Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan: "When Kurt Cobain died, I cried because I lost my greatest opponent" (NME)

Billy Corgan says he and Kurt Cobain were the best writers, 'everybody else a distant third' (NME)

The song Billy Corgan wrote instead of killing his parents (Far Out)

Billy Corgan reflects on childhood abuse (CNN)

OUT OF THE PATCH (Chicago Tribune)

Billy Corgan Interview 1998 (Charlie Rose)

Promoting philanthropy, Smashing Pumpkins style (CNN)

"Orange Crunch" (Smashing Pumpkins fansite)

Revisiting ‘Adore,’ the Worst Smashing Revisiting ‘Adore,’ the Worst Smashing Pumpkins Album That Still Matters (The Ringer)

FROM FIGHTING TO SMASHING (Washington Post) 

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