Billy Corgan

For much of his life, Bill Corgan has suffered from depression. He has also been through self-harm, suicidal tendencies, and obsessive compulsive disorder.

He married his girlfriend Chris Fabian in 1993. However, they divorced in 1997. Since then, he has dated several women, including photographer Yelena Yemchuk and singer Courtney Love.

In the 2010s, he began a relationship with Chloe Mendel. The couple had a son named Augustus Juppiter Corgan, born in November 2015.

Bill Corgan was born on 17th March 1967 as William Patrick Corgan at Columbus Hospital in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. His father’s name is William Patrick Corgan and his mother’s is Martha Louise Maes Corgan Lutz. He also has a younger brother named Ricky.

Later, his parents divorced, after which he lived with his father and his new wife. According to Corgan, he suffered a lot of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his stepmother.

Corgan attended Glenbard North High School, where he excelled in sports. He also developed an interest in music and performed in a string of bands. Though he received scholarship offers from a number of schools, he decided to pursue music full-time.

He disliked the Chicago music scene, and therefore, he moved to St Petersburg, Florida. He formed his first major band ‘The Marked’ in 1985. However, they didn’t find much success. The band broke up soon, after which Corgan returned to Chicago.

Bill Corgan eventually met guitarist James Iha and bassist D’arcy Wretzky, and they began playing at local clubs. They later recruited a drummer named Jimmy Chamberlin and formed the band ‘The Smashing Pumpkins’.

The band soon signed a recording contract and eventually in 1991, they released their debut album ‘Gish’. It peaked at the 195th position on the US Billboard 200 and the 125th position on the Canadian albums chart. It was met with positive reviews.

Their next album ‘Siamese Dreams’ (1993) was a huge success commercially and critically. It debuted at the 10th position on the US Billboard 200, and was met positively by critics. It became known as one of the best albums of the 1990s. Rolling Stone magazine mentioned it in their list of ‘500 Greatest Albums of All Time’.

The band’s popularity reached new heights after the release of their third album ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ in 1995. It earned critical acclaim and reached the 1st position on the US Billboard 200. It earned seven nominations for the Grammy Awards including a nomination for ‘Album of the Year’.

Their fourth album ‘Adore’ was also a success, critically and commercially, and reached the second position on the US Billboard 200.

In 2011, Bill Corgan formed an independent wrestling promotion named ‘Resistance Pro’. In 2014, he began developing a reality TV series about his promotion.

The next year, in 2015, he was made the new Senior Producer of Creative and Talent Development for ‘Total National Action Wrestling’. However, in 2016, he left the promotion due to a dispute. More recently, he purchased the National Wrestling Alliance.