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The Smashing Pumpkins' ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ at 30

The Smashing Pumpkins' album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness turns 30 this week. In the last 30 years it has become a legendary record, and tracks like "1979," "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" and ...
Louder

"I gave away all my records, I started giving away my guitars, I was fantasising about my own death." The horrifying origin story behind one of the most uplifting rock so…

" Today is the greatest day I've ever known ," Billy Corgan sings at the song's outset, sounding elated at the thought of the ...
Chicago Sun-Times

‘Mellon Collie’ with a mezzo-soprano: How the Smashing Pumpkins’ ’90s rock album became an opera

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