Did you know........
Did you know........
- Billy Corgan Sr's biggest complaint now is that people keep telling him that he looks like Billy C. Jr, rather than Billy Jr. looks like him!
- James and Billy are both pet owners, James has a dog, bugg superstar and Billy has two cats named Lily and Thelonious.
- MCIS went sextuple platinum!
- Billy purchased his house in 1993 for $450,000
- Billy is 6 feet, 3 inches tall.
- D'arcy was into gymnastics as a teen.
- Billy lost his virginity at age 18.
- A lot of the Corgan family have that "Corgan slouch"
- Spaceboy was written for Billy's disabled little brother.
- D'arcy found out that Kerry Brown (her current husband) liked her when she heard him talking in his sleep!
- Billy Corgan's full name is William Patrick Corgan Jr.
- There is a sound effect from the game Doom in the song When Boys Fear to Tread
- Billy Corgan's father played the guitar during the recording of "The Last Song" from the 33 single.
- The song Starla. Corgan wrote it after meeting a girl whose name he thought was Starla. However when he met up with her sometime later and asked her what she thought of the song she told him that it was a nice idea but her name was in fact Darla!
- Billy bought himself a brand new, cherry red Ferrari.
- James and D'arcy own their own recording company called Scatchie Records.
- Billy dropped his senior science course back in high school.
- James and D'arcy had a ralationship but broke up during the recording of Siamese Dream.
- Billy used to write articles for his school newspaper about the music industry.
- Thirty-Three was the first song Billy wrote after the Siamese Dream tour.
- Corgan was married to Chris Fabian but now divorced.
- Bill Corgan and Courtney Love did go out with each other for a little while but Billy broke it off due to jelious Curt Cobain.
- Courtney Love and Billy broke up on 10/11/91 while at a Nirvana show at the Metro.
- Jimmy's last show was at July 10, 1996 at the U.S. Air Arena in Landover(Washington, D.C.).
- Billy first kissed a girl at the age of 15.
- Corgan likes to sleep...early to bed, early to rise,like an old man!
- Dennis Rodman and Billy are friends.
- The Pumpkins will give out free backstage passes to people they meet on planes or in bars/restaurants during a tour.
- He wore that ZERO shirt because he looked at himself as a superhero and that was his trademark shirt
- Billy wrote Beatiful in his sleep
- Billy was born on St.Pattrick's Day (March 17) 1967
- Billy wrote program music for the movie Ransom and played it with Matt Walker
- D'arcy is the only one not from Chicago, she is from South Haven MI
- Billy Corgan began to play the guitar at the age of 14, when one day he walked into the basement of his friends house and saw his friend playing the electic guitar.
- The sacred heart (on the back of the Gish album) was a charm given to him while in Florida.
- Billy Corgan moved down to the Tampa Bay area in Florida and played in a band called the Marked before starting SP.
- "For Martha" is about the death of his Billy's mother. His mother died shortly after MCIS.
- James Iha and Nina Gordon (from Veruca Salt) work out in the same gym. That's how they met.
- That the argument that introduced Billy to D'arcy took place outside the Avalon Nightclub in Chicago, and was over Billy arguing about how the Dan Reed Network looked "like they were put together by a record company because of the way they moved around on stage".
- Billy Corgan's first band was called "The Marked" because of his birthmark on his left hand.
- In the beginning Billy and James were the only members of Smashing Pumpkins. Later on D'arcy joined in and they played their first gig with a drummachine.
- Billy got the name 33 from the back of a Rolling Rock bottle.
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