William Patrick Corgan
vocals, lead guitar

 Also: writes, composes, arranges, produces, and mixes.

Born: 17th March 1967 in Elk Grove, Illinois Chicago

Attended: Glenbard North High School

Guitars used: Gibson ES 335 (for "Bullet"), Gibson Hummingbird, Rigole TTO, Fender Stratocaster.

Amps: Mesa Boogie, Marshall

Strings: Light Gauge

Picks: Heavy

Other instruments: Rhythm Guitar, Bass Guitar, Piano, Mellotron

Other projects: The Marked,(Pre Pumpkins) Starchildren, Movie Soundtracks (Ransom) Also helped Marilyn Manson whit is new album (ore something like that):

Billy Corgan. "We talks about working together on their new album, but we were so busy doing our album and they seemed to be getting on fine. I helped work on a couple of songs in terms of making suggestions and helped with the general overall idea of the direction they were going in, but he can put it better than I can. I was the devil's advocate."

And he also helped Hole whit their album to.

Billy Corgan: I did work on the new Hole album. You don't have to believe me. I was never supposed to produce, I was supposed to oversee the album. I helped work on the songs. I felt so strongly about the material that I suggested they get a real great producer because I felt the album was going to be brilliant, and that's what they did. And I felt so confident in the producer they got that I didn't need to oversee it. At times they came to me, and I was still involved on an aesthetic level, but beyond that I helped get the album off the ground and I helped write some of the songs and arranged most of them. When the album comes out, you'll see how many songs I'm involved whit, and everyone can decide what my influence is on the overall record. Half the people will hate me because it's not the Hole of old. The other half will hail me as a genius because I've turned them into a proper pop group.

Hairstyle: Shaved head (but I think he was very cute in that long hear he had on the gish time)

Height:6'4", (6'3" most of the time due to slouching)

Weight: 200 lbs

Quirks: Intelligence, sarcasm, perfectionism, tall, long fingers.

Previous Careers: Poet, Philosopher, Box Maker, Brick Layer, Working in Record Store, Pizza Baking.

Interests: Doom for the PC, Basketball

Musical influences: Black Sabbath, Bauhaus, Pink Floyd

Biggest Influences on Career :Pain, violence, love.

Favorite musicians: My Bloody Valentine, Chainsaw Kittens, Skunk, Mercury Rev, Thin Lizzy, The Frogs

Favorite albums: Beatles "Rubber Soul", Black Sabbath "Master of Reality"

Favorite singles: The Sweet "Action", Gene Clark "So You Say You've Lost Your Baby", Santo & Johnny "Sleepwalk"

Favorite songwriters: David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Phil Lynott

Favorite films/TV shows: Citizen Kane, "I don't watch television"

Marital status: Was Married to Chris Fabian - Now Divorced

Children: Nope, he has no children.

Other: Only writes his music early in the morning.

He thinks he's very nice when he is drunk (but I'm not so shore about that the other pumpkins agree on that one) Ore just read this from the interview in SELECT:

Billy: "When I'm sober, I'm mean, but when I'm drunk I'm the nicest person."

D'arcy and James laugh.

"Well, it feels like I am" Billy concedes.

And Billy likes Radiohead to. He loves their album he said in an interview and:

"…But God, yeah, Radiohead deserve to be selling 12 million records."

Then I know millions and billions other things about Billy that maybe is to dull to be mentioned here.