- Billy Corgan made a short movie with his friends in the early 1980s, titled "Alien 1/2". The premise was basically a semi-sequel to Ridley Scott's "Alien", before James Cameron's "Aliens" was released in 1986. Corgan and his friends play astronauts who travel to a distant planet, only to be attacked by an alien (it's actually a plush Tazmanian devil doll). Corgan and his comrades use such tools as a pink hair dryer to combat the beast, which flies above their heads, thanks to some fishing line. Action sequences include a spaceship landing on the planet's surface, which was achieved by a thin piece of paper, folded into a tirangular shape (for the spaceship), and what appears to be a flat picture of a red planet (most likely Mars). Corgan utters the dramatic line, "And nowwwww, the end is near!". Bits of this movie were broadcasted on VH1's "Before They Were Rock Stars".
- The last footage of Billy with hair is the video for "Bullet With Butterfly Wings".
- After buying a pawn shop guitar, he discovered that it whined when he stopped playing it. Instead of trading in the guitar, he actually wrote the whine into the song "Mayonaise".
- Has a large red birthmark that covers the top of his left hand.
- Only member of the The Smashing Pumpkins to appear on every album.
- Started shaving his head when he began losing his hair in the 1990's.
- Guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist, and songwriter for the band The Smashing Pumpkins from 1988-2000. When asked about how his band and others from the "alternative revolution" did in changing the music industry for the better, he responded "We didn't do a very good job."
- Has formed a new band called 'Zwan' with former Smashing Pumpkins drummer, Jimmy Chamberlin, guitarist Matt Sweeney (from New York indie rock group Chavez), bassist/guitarist/keyboardist David Pajo (from Papa M, Ariel M, Tortoise) and later adding bassist Paz Lenchantin (from A Perfect Circle).
- Composed most of the songs for both his bands, The Smashing Pumpkins and Zwan. He also co-wrote the album "Celebrity Skin" for Courtney Love's band Hole.
- Co-wrote the Courtney Love and Hole song, "Celebrity Skin".
- He first appeared with his head shaved in an episode of "Saturday Night Live" in 1995.
- Huge fan of professional wrestling.
- On January 19, 2023, Corgan attended the funeral of Lisa Marie Presley and performed at the service, delivering a stripped-down rendition of the Smashing Pumpkins' 1998 ballad "To Sheila.".
- Attended Glenbard North High School, also attended by Kiele Sanchez.
- Briefly joined the British band New Order in 2001, performing live as stand-in guitarist.
- The debut album of his new band 'Zwan' has been a critical fave, as most of Smashing Pumpkins' albums were, and the band plans to spend 2003 touring in support of the disc. Corgan says Zwan will play no Smashing Pumpkins material in their shows, because he wants the band to establish itself independently of the Pumpkins.
- During the band's over 20 years together, the The Smashing Pumpkins put forward nine critically acclaimed albums: Gish, Siamese Dream, Pisces Iscariot, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Adore, Machina the Machines of God, Machina II the Friends and Enemies of Modern Music, Zeitgeist and Oceania.
- His father's ancestry is Irish, Scottish, and English. His mother's lineage is half Belgian (Flemish) and half Italian/Sicilian.
- His first solo album, entitled "The Future Embrace" was released on the 21st June. (June 2005)
- recording a debut solo album after splitting up with his former band, Zwan. (2004)
- Two children with girlfriend Chloe Mendel: son Augustus Juppiter (b. 2015) and daughter Philomena Clementine (b. 2018).
- Was romantically and artistically linked to photographer Yelena Yemchuck from 1995 to 2004.
- The The Smashing Pumpkins album, "Machina II", was never released in stores. Instead, out of his angst toward the animosity of the record company, he released the album for download, free of charge, from his website.
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