‘Goths don’t have sex – we just stare into the black sun’: Billy Corgan’s honest playlist
The Smashing Pumpkins songwriter and guitarist on overdoing karaoke, joining Pink Floyd on stage and his secret love of Katy Perry’s RoarThe first single I boughtShe Loves You by the Beatles, for 25 cents at a garage sale in Glendale Heights, Illinois, even though I didn’t know who the Beatles were. I just liked how they looked on the cover, their faces half in shadow.The song that makes me cry
I’ve been lucky enough to play Wish You Were Here both when Pink Floyd were ind
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