Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan welcomes third child with wife Chloé: “Baby Juno is happy and healthy”

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Smashing Pumpkins‘ Billy Corgan has welcomed a “happy and healthy” third child with wife Chloé Mendel Corgan.The frontman and wife Chloé welcomed their third child, daughter Juno Corgan, on Tuesday (March 18).

They shared the news with People, telling the publication their newborn entered the world in “the wee hours” at their Highland Park home.“My wife, Chloé is doing well and recovering, and baby Juno is happy, healthy, and nursing with gusto,” Corgan said. “We are so touched by all the kind wishes of support and love, and thank those who helped Chloé and baby have such a safe, and peaceful, home birth.”“The kids are absolutely thrilled by their new sister, and being 9 (Augustus) and 6 (Philomena) they can’t wait till she’s old enough to play,” he added.A post shared by People Magazine (@people)Last month, the rock icon and father of three sat down with NME and opened up about the ongoing conversation about rock being “dead”.

The ‘1979’ musician shared that the spirit of rock and roll will live on because it “is always going to be what kids decide to do in a sort of form of hatred or disgust with what they’re seeing.”He also opened up about performing at Black Sabbath’s forthcoming final gig in Birmingham later this summer.“It’s going to be magical.

There’s so much love out there for Ozzy,” he shared. “It all comes together on this one magical night. It’s what rock’n’roll is supposed to be about.