Billy Corgan: Last News

Duran Duran have paid their respects to David Lynch describing him as a “creative superhero” and “enormous inspiration”.The veteran director and Twin Peaks creator’s death was announced yesterday (January 16) by his family and came after he was reportedly “forced to relocate from his house” due to the Los Angeles wildfires. He was aged 78.A host of artists and directors have offered their condolences following his death including Steven Spielberg, Edgar Wright, James Gunn, Hugh Jackman, Billy Corgan, Questlove and more – see more tributes here.

Priscilla Presley and Smashing Pumpkin‘s Billy Corgan are among those leading tributes to Lisa Marie Presley on the second anniversary of her death.The only daughter of Elvis and sole heir to his estate died at the age of 54 on January 12 2023, after suffering a cardiac arrest at her Calabasas home.Now, two years on, numerous famous faces have shared their respects online, celebrating her life and recalling how the loss impacted them.Taking to Instagram yesterday (January 12), her mother Priscilla Presley marked the anniversary with a touching post on Instagram. “‘I miss you more than words can say.

Smashing Pumpkins‘ frontman Billy Corgan has shared footage of the LA wildfires that have forced over 150,000 residents and more out of their homes.The ‘1979’ singer begins his video by showing the view from his balcony. The giant gray clouds, Corgan clarified, aren’t actually clouds but smoke from the ongoing destructive wildfires that have claimed the homes of hundreds of thousands in the state.“I wanted to kind of give everyone a little message today, I’m feeling better. Thank you for all your well wishes.

Billy Corgan, James Iha, Falling in Reverse‘s Ronnie Radke and more were in attendance at Marilyn Manson‘s birthday party.The controversial musician celebrated his 56th birthday on January 5 with an intimate party held at what appeared to be a bar or restaurant. Various photos and video clips of the night were shared on Instagram by Vanessa Alexandra – one of Manson’s friends – as well as the Marylin Manson fan account @marilynmanson.gallery.In one video, a crowd of invited guests take a moment to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to the musician.

Metallica played two sets full of hits, deep cuts and some unexpected covers during their annual Helping Hands benefit show last night (December 14) – check out footage below.Taking place at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles, the first half of the set was acoustic and saw the Four Horsemen dust off the ‘Reload’ deep cut ‘Low Man’s Lyric’ for the first time since 1998. They followed it up with covers of Diamond Head’s ‘Helpless’ – its first performance by Metallica since 2018 – and a never-before-played version of Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s ‘Away From Home.’Metallica also performed ‘If Darkness Had A Son’ from last year’s ‘72 Seasons‘ acoustically for the first time and ‘Nothing Else Matters’, accompanied by a string section.In the electric set, they performed ‘The Unforgiven II’ for the first time since 2015 and a reimagined version of their hit ‘Fuel’.

Billy Corgan has shared his views on Metallica’s song ‘Fuel’, and said that it is “awfully close” to one of his songs with The Smashing Pumpkins.The singer, songwriter and guitarist brought up the comparisons while appearing for an interview on the Everblack podcast. At one point during the discussion, he was asked about the possibility of him performing ‘Tales Of A Scorched Earth’ live for the first time.While he didn’t explicitly reveal whether or not the band are thinking about embedding it into the setlists any time soon, he did go on to outline one thing he’s noticed about the track.“ Well, let me caveat this by saying that I love James Hetfield as a person.

Courtney Love has reacted to Billy Corgan bidding on handwritten lyrics of her band Hole‘s 1994 hit single ‘Violet’.Last week (November 18), Corgan revealed via an Instagram clip that he had purchased three tickets for the auction of Love’s handwritten lyrics for ‘Violet’, which appeared in the band’s breakthrough 1994 album ‘Live Through This’. The track has long been thought to have been penned about the Smashing Pumpkins frontman.The auction is part of a fundraiser by the wildlife sanctuary Ellis Park, which is running until December 15.

Billy Corgan thinks Bill Burr might be his half-brother.The Smashing Pumpkins frontman revealed his theory on an episode of Howie Mandel’s Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast released today (November 26), after Mandel accidentally used an image of Burr instead of Corgan on the studio’s screen.The mistake prompted Corgan to tell an anecdote about his potential relationship with the Mandalorian actor, which, he revealed, he had never told before. “Most of my friends don’t even know this story,” he said.“About 10 years ago, one of my brothers was having a birthday party, and my stepmother was there, who was obviously married to my father,” he continued.

Howie Mandel realized he had a picture of Burr, 56, behind him instead of Corgan on the Tuesday episode of the Howie Mandel Does Stuff podcast, the Smashing Pumpkins founder understood it was an honest mistake.“It happens,” Corgan said. “Me and Bill Burr memes. If I had Bill Burr’s money I’d be happy to be Bill Burr.”Although he “guarantees” he doesn’t have Burr’s money, he did have a story about their possible relationship.

Billy Corgan has revealed that he has entered the auction to win Courtney Love‘s handwritten lyrics to the Hole song ‘Violet’.The Smashing Pumpkins frontman took to his official Instagram account to post a video clip in which he shared that he has purchased three tickets for the auction of Love’s handwritten lyrics for Hole’s 1994 track. The auction is part of a fundraiser by the wildlife sanctuary Ellis Park, which is running until December 15.

Courtney Love is preparing to auction her handwritten lyrics to Hole’s ‘Violet’ for charity, and has told NME the song is “not just about Billy Corgan”.The song was the opening track to the band’s second album ‘Live Through This’ in 1994, and was written by Love three years earlier during Hole’s tour ahead of the release of their 1991 debut album ‘Pretty On The Inside’.Now, Love has donated the original handwritten pages of lyrics for the song to an auction for a fundraiser by the wildlife sanctuary Ellis Park, which is running until December 15. All proceeds will go to the charity, which is dedicated to caring for rescued animals in Sumatra.

Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan has said that he can write songs that sound like any era of the band, explaining: “in five minutes I could write you something that would sound like a song that would’ve been on ‘Siamese Dream.'”Speaking about his creative process to Premier Guitar, Corgan said he could create another song like from one of the band’s most acclaimed albums, ‘Siamese Dream’ if he wanted to.Corgan told the outlet: “I think it’s more trying to find something that seems to signify whatever’s happening at the moment. It’s a truthfulness.

The Smashing Pumpkins‘ Billy Corgan has hit out at various ‘greatest guitar player’ lists for not including him or ranking him at a low spot.The ‘Cherub Rock’ singer opened up about how “most people don’t even recognise my contributions as a guitar player” in a new interview with Guitar World. The frontman specifically referenced ‘greatest guitar player’ lists and how he is often overlooked during those rankings.“I usually don’t even make those lists,” he told the outlet.

Billy Corgan‘s tea shop, reportedly injuring the Smashing Pumpkins singer’s mother-in-law.Local news station WGN9 reported yesterday (October 30) that a red Mini Cooper crashed into the front window of the tea shop, which is located in Highland Park, Illinois.On Instagram, Corgan’s wife Chloe shared that whilst their son Augustus managed to get away in time, her mother Jenny was injured in the crash.“This afternoon at Madame Zuzu’s, a car (in circumstances which remain under investigation) drove over the curb and into Madam Zuzu’s, crashing through the window and sadly injuring one person – my mother, Jenny; who was spending the day and lunching with my son Augustus,” Chloe wrote. “Thankfully, he was able to leap out of the way and was not injured.“Our family is grateful for the swift assistance of the Highland Park and Deerfield first responders.

an Instagram post shortly after the accident. According to Corgan’s post, his mother-in-law was at the tea and coffee shop having lunch with their son, Augustus Juppiter Corgan, 8, who was unharmed in the incident.“This afternoon at Madame ZuZu’s, a car (in circumstances which remain under investigation), drove over the curb and into Madame ZuZu’s, crashing through the window and sadly injuring one person — my mother, Jenny; who was spending the day and lunching with my son Augustus,” Mendel’s statement, shared by the rocker, explained.“Thankfully, he was able to leap out of the way and was not injured,” it continued.

Billy Corgan has announced a string of solo Australian tour dates this winter – see the full list of dates and ticketing details below.The Smashing Pumpkins frontman is due to return Down Under this December for three Good Things festival performances in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Now, Corgan has announced additional solo headlining shows for Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.Across all six shows, Corgan will be backed by Australian indie rock band The Delta Riggs.

The Smashing Pumpkins were joined on stage by Deftones’ Chino Moreno in Portland this week for a version of ‘Jellybelly’ – check out footage below.Billy Corgan and co. are coming to the end of an extensive North American tour, some dates of which have been part of Green Day’s ‘Saviors’ tour, while others have been headline shows.At one of the ‘Saviors’ shows in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday (September 25), Moreno joined the group for ‘Jellybelly’, a deep cut from 1995’s ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’.Watch fan-captured footage of the collaboration here:A post shared by The Smashing Pumpkins (@smashingpumpkins)Moreno has appeared on stage with the 90s band before, during their huge 30th anniversary show in New Jersey in August 2018, where they played versions of ‘Bodies’ and ‘Snail’.The Pumpkins released a surprise album ‘Aghori Mhori Mei’ last month, their 13th studio record in total.

The Smashing Pumpkins‘ Billy Corgan has appeared on a podcast that charts the history of New Order, where he explains why the band’s “alien quality” landed with Generation X in the US.In the latest episode of Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division & New Order, released yesterday (September 19), host Maxine Peake focused on how the band’s first-ever US tour in 1980 came to be. Corgan chimes in to contextualise the unique connection British music sparked with the Gen Xers who were coming of age.Describing a generation of “latchkey kids” who had “too much TV” and “too much time alone”, the “alien quality” of bands like New Order began to resonate.“Bands like New Order seem to find that, ‘Yes, you’re young, Yes, you wanna fall in love and ‘es, you’re having your heart broken, but the world kind of isn’t the way it appears to be,'” he elaborates.Listen to the podcast episode below, which also features anecdotes from techno producer Kevin Saunderson and writers Andrew O’Hagan and Audrey Golden, along with interviews with current and former band members Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert and Peter Hook.A band like New Order, he continues, signified to kids like Corgan that “there was this other world out there that was cooler, had more depth of feel, had a level of sophistication even about teenage angst, that you certainly weren’t getting from America, particularly in the rock scene in the 80s.”He likened discovering New Order as a teenager to feeling like “the kid who sits in the back of the class because ‘nobody understands me and I got my weird trench coat'” from a typical John Hughes movie.“The minute you heard New Order, you were like, ‘They’re one of me’ or ‘I’m one of them’.

Smashing Pumpkins‘ Billy Corgan has opened up about his port-wine birthmarks on social media in a statement of body positivity.The ‘1979’ hitmaker took to his official Instagram page to share a photo of himself sporting a purple hoodie showing off his large birthmarks that span across large parts of his left arm. Corgan previously showed off his birthmarks on the cover of his 2005 debut solo album ‘TheFutureEmbrace’.“I’m a fan of body positivity movements because at the end of the day it is about celebrating what makes us ‘us’,” began the caption of his post.

Billy Corgan has used artificial intelligence (AI) to create a new video, promoting The Smashing Pumpkins’ new album in eight languages.The update from the alt-rock frontman comes as the band are currently embarking on a huge stadium tour across the US, alongside Green Day. It also comes on the heels of the Pumpkins sharing a brand new album titled ‘Aghori Mhori Mei’ earlier this month.Now, in a bid to promote the LP – which the band shared as a surprise release – Billy Corgan has shared a series of AI-generated videos, which see him communicate with fans in numerous languages.Originally, the video message was recorded by him in English, and thanks to AI filmmaking firm Curious Refuge, it has been re-made seven times – each time making it look like he is delivering the same message in perfectly fluent Spanish, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Greek, and French.The frontman also makes a tongue-in-cheek quip during the message, stating that he wants to share the message with fans “before AI destroys everything”.

The Smashing Pumpkins have joined forces with Marc Jacobs for a new fashion capsule collection.Announced on Instagram, the ‘90s alt-rock icons have teamed up with Heaven by Marc Jacobs to drop a new fashion collection.The range is comprised of a number of clothing items inspired by the band’s album artwork throughout the years, and includes a ‘Siamese Dream’-themed baby tee – which is already sold out – a matching shoulder bag (£195), an ‘Infinite Sadness’ tour long sleeve tee (£105), and a ‘Zero’ zip-up hoodie (£225).A skirt, oversized ringer tee and a hoodie are also available.As expected, the entire collection is pretty pricey, with the t-shirts priced at around £100, hoodies at £225, the bag at £195 and the skirt at £250. You can check out the entire range here.A post shared by @heavnThis isn’t the first time that the fashion house has teamed up with some iconic artists from the rock world for a fashion collab.