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Billy Corgan refuses to be pressured into playing the Smashing Pumpkins’ classic hits. During a recent conversation with Kerrang, the frontman rejected the idea that his band has to play certain famous songs to appease their fans. “I don’t play any songs I don’t want to play. I don’t care if they’re a classic or not,” Corgan declared. “If I don’t want to play it, I just don’t play it. I don’t put that on the audience like, ‘Well, I’ve got to play this one for you.’ I think that’s kind of cheese.” Though Corgan noted “it’s not a bad thing that [fans] want to hear songs that they love,” he cauti...
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Billy Corgan weigert sich, bei den Auftritten der Smashing Pumpkins deren größte Hits zu spielen.Der Lead-Gitarrist besteht darauf, dass die Rockband die Fans nicht mit ihrer Tracklist besänftigen muss. „Ich spiele keine Songs, die ich nicht spielen will. Es ist mir egal, ob sie ein Klassiker sind oder nicht“, enthüllt er im Interview mit ‚Kerrang‘. „Wenn ich sie nicht spielen will, spiele ich sie einfach nicht. Ich drücke das dem Publikum nicht auf: ‚Nun, ich muss diesen Song für euch spielen.' Ich denke, das ist irgendwie Käse.“ Der ‚Mayonnaise‘-Interpret erläutert, dass die Band die Neugier...
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Billy Corgan refuses to be pressured into playing the Smashing Pumpkins’ classic hits. During a recent conversation with Kerrang, the frontman rejected the idea that his band has to play certain famous songs to appease their fans. “I don’t play any songs I don’t want to play. I don’t care if they’re a classic or not,” Corgan declared. “If I don’t want to play it, I just don’t play it. I don’t put that on the audience like, ‘Well, I’ve got to play this one for you.’ I think that’s kind of cheese.” Though Corgan noted “it’s not a bad thing that [fans] want to hear songs that they love,” he cauti...
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Billy Corgan verteidigt Taylor Swift gegen die Kritik an ihrem Album ‚The Tortured Poets Department‘.Der Smashing Pumpkins-Frontmann kann nicht verstehen, warum es einige Leute stört, dass die neue Platte ein Doppelalbum mit 31 Titeln ist. Kritikern zufolge ist ‚The Tortured Poets Department‘ damit entschieden zu lang. Im Gespräch mit der Zeitung ‚Irish Times‘ erklärt der Musiker: „Taylor Swift ist eine der begabtesten Pop-Künstlerinnen aller Zeiten. Wieso ist es schlecht, dass sie mehr Musik herausbringt? Ich kann das nicht nachvollziehen... Man kann auf Spotify gehen und es einfach übersprin...
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Billy Corgan is defending Taylor Swift over the length of her recent album, The Tortured Poets Department. The pop star’s latest offering was one of the more highly anticipated albums of the year, but received plenty of backlash when it clocked in on at over two hours spanning 31 tracks. Billy Corgan Comments on Taylor Swift’s Album LengthSpeaking with The Irish Times, Corgan was talking about Sinead O’Connor‘s musical legacy when he shifted his focus to Taylor Swift while making a point. Corgan reasoned that he would love to have found that O’Connor had a lost tape of material and feeling tha...
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Billy Corgan and Chloe Mendel "didn't feel the need" to invite their famous friends to their wedding. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman recently tied the knot with the fashion designer - with whom he has children Augustus, six, and three-year-old Philomena - at their home in Highland Park, Illinois, and though his bandmates James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlain were among the 100 guests, the couple wanted their big day to focus on "family intimacy". Chloe told People magazine: "It was really focused on family intimacy and the people closest to us. "We do shows for a living, we are out in the public eye...
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Smashing Pumpkins’ singer/guitarist Billy Corgan, wearing black makeup and black boots, and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin rocked out at PNC Music Pavilion on Tuesday night in Charlotte, North Carolina. The rock band is currently on a North American tour with stops coming next in Holmdel, N.J., Wantagh, N.Y., Gilford, N.H., and Toronto. “James, I think they like the bleak new wave better than the wrestling,” Corgan said after a Jame Iha solo, a reference to opening talent from the National Wrestling Alliance.
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The Smashing Pumpkins are set to embark on a summer tour this year. Last week, the band announced the 26 dates of the World Is a Vampire tour. Interpol, Stone Temple Pilots and Rival Sons will join the band for select dates. >GET SMASHING PUMPKINS TICKETS NOW! Billy Corgan, the lead vocalist, said in a press release, “That’s what The World Is A Vampire is about, bringing back that sense of community. If you don’t fit in, you belong here. It’s about having a shared experience and respecting others, but ultimately having fun.” General on-sale tickets were released on Friday. >GET SMASHING PUMPKI...
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Billy Corgan found Lisa Marie Presley's death "really hard". The Smashing Pumpkins frontman performed at the funeral of the singer following her shock death at the age of 54 in January and he has paid tribute to his friend as a "really, really cool" person. Appearing on SiriusXM's 'The Howard Stern Show', he said: “She was awesome — that was a tough one. "That was really hard for me because she was a one-of-a-kind person and the world really didn’t know her because they, of course, always knew her as Elvis’ daughter, but she was a really, really cool, unique person.” Billy previously co-wrote ...
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Axl Rose is still “in shock” over Lisa Marie Presley’s death. The Guns N’ Roses frontman, 60, opened up about how he never imagined having to pay tribute to the late singer when he appeared at her celebration of life service at Graceland on Sunday (22.01.23), at which he also performed his hit ‘November Rain’. He told mourners: “I’m still in shock as I feel like I will continue to be for quite some time. I feel like I’m supposed to be texting her like right now.” Axl added he had not planned to speak about Lisa Marie – who died on January 12 aged 54 after suffering two heart attacks – and said...
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