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The problem with Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan’s rationale for his 26-year age gap with his wife

COMMENT: The Smashing Pumpkins frontman explained the ‘advantages’ of the 26-year age gap between him and his wife Chloé Mendel in a recent interview. But his reasoning feels rooted in long-held ideas about purity culture, writes Ellie Muir

The Independent UK · Oct 28

Rock star’s comments about 26-year age gap with wife spark backlash

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The Independent UK · Oct 28

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan turns heads with age-gap ‘advantage’ comment about younger wife

The musician met his wife, Chloé Mendel, in 2012 when she was 19, and he was 44

The Independent UK · Oct 27

"These sounds are the quiet and private side of the girl who joined the big American major label rock band." Former Hole, Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur announces Bass Womb Room, her first new music in over 15 years

"I'm going to ease myself back into sound"

Louder · Jul 20

"The last great double album. So great that it should've been released in the 1970s." Billy Corgan unleashes his grand artistic statement on Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

Billy Corgan’s ambitions reached their zenith on Smashing Pumpkins' swollen 1995 double album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

Louder · Jul 13

"By the time you get to the end, it's like, Okay, that's a classic." Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan recalls the first time he heard Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit

The night that Butch Vig played Billy Corgan an unreleased cassette of Nirvana's Nevermind album

Louder · Jun 16

"Celebrate this iconic album on the grandest scale possible." Billy Corgan adds additional shows to his orchestral Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness opera tour

"This magical dream doesn’t have to end"

Louder · Jun 12

“I found myself sitting next to Keith Richards – just two guys playing the guitar. Doesn’t get much better than that!” From Eric Clapton to Daft Punk and Avenged Sevenfold, Greg Leisz has played with everyone. But don’t call him a session guitarist

He says finding himself working with Matthew Sweet, k.d. lang, and Lucinda Williams has been a dream. But he still wants his stolen ’64 Strat back

Guitar World · Jun 8

"I have this memory of killing myself, blasting my head off, and then throwing the guitar at the amp over and over." The story behind the most intense song on the most ambitious rock album of the '90s

Life isn't always easy as a perfectionist

Louder · Jun 3

“Billy has been an incredible mentor... He has such a vast knowledge of pedals”: Smashing Pumpkins’ Kiki Wong on how Billy Corgan led her down the stompbox rabbit hole

Kiki Wong discusses her pedalboard strategy for nailing classic Pumpkins tones and credits Corgan as a bona-fide guru of effects

Guitar World · May 29