A baldy twat in a dress
Billy Corgan? A lanky goon with a grotesquely swollen ego? Oh yes, claims newly-resigned manager Sharon Osbourne.
On Tuesday January 11, Sharon Osbourne (wife of metal star Ozzy) resigned as Smashing Pumpkins' manager after only four months in the job.
"Billy Corgan's got an ego bigger than my arse," says Osbourne, who is "disgusted" by the singer's behaviour during a recent encounter with Q (see page 40 for the full Corgan performance).
"Billy behaved in a rude and aggressive way," she explains. "He thought that by trying to humiliate your writer he would earn respect. I bet him $1,000 that it wouldn't lead to a wonderful, arse-licking story." lt didn't.Osbourne, who claims that if Corgan "says anything bad about me, my old man will chin him", announced her defection through a humorously worded press statement. “I must resign today due to medical reasons: Billy Corgan was making me sick" she wrote.
However, she points out to Q that, "the sad thing is, he's a nice person underneath all the bullshit. Unfortunately he's surrounded himself with arse-lickers and it's a long time since anyone pointed out a few home truths. I feel sorry for the other band members because he doesn't treat people well. He's also extremely competitive and that's a bit sad. I thought their last album, Adore, was a great record but as soon as it wasn't a massive commercial success, he blamed the record company, sacked his previous management and ignored the fact that it wasn't a particularly commercial record."
Osbourne says she decided to resign after a trip to Scandinavia, where Corgan insisted the media sign contracts giving him control and copyright over their work. "The journalists were unionised; it was illegal for them to agree to a deal like that," reveals Osbourne. "Billy's reaction was, "Fuck them, the unions mean nothing to me. I'm Billy Corgan." He won't accept anyone else's opinion. He's got no problems in his life except that he's a six foot baldy twat in a dress." Smashing Pumpkins' spokesperson declined to comment.