Billy Corgan
William Patrick Corgan
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Growing up in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, he taught himself guitar after a friend’s Flying V sparked his interest, drawing on his father’s encouragement to explore artists such as Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix while absorbing hard-rock and emerging alternative sounds. Forming the Smashing Pumpkins in 1988 with James Iha, D’arcy Wretzky and Jimmy Chamberlin, he steered the group to commercial…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
