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Smashing Pumpkins Frontman Billy Corgan: What I Learned as a Rock Star

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The Smashing Pumpkins frontman tells Chris Lee what it takes and how to last in the ‘murderous business’ of music.

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Billy Corgan has seen a million faces and rocked them all. As frontman and primary songwriter for the alterna-rock group Smashing Pumpkins, he has presided over a multiplatinum-selling, arena-rocking string of successes since 1988.

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