Billy Corgan Reveals Which Smashing Pumpkins Songs He Wants At His Funeral - Noise11.com
Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins, Photo Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo

Billy Corgan, The Smashing Pumpkins, Photo Ros O'Gorman

Billy Corgan Reveals Which Smashing Pumpkins Songs He Wants At His Funeral

by Music-News.com on April 8, 2025

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Billy Corgan wants his own music played at his funeral.

Corgan is best known as a founding member of The Smashing Pumpkins – who have achieved huge success with hits such as ‘Tonight, Tonight’ and ‘Bullet with Butterfly Wings’ since hitting the music scene in the 1988 – and he has now revealed which track he would have played at his memorial service, all just to make a “bitter point” to those left behind.

He told The Guardian: “I’d probably pick one of my own just to make some sort of posthumous, bitter point: ‘You should have paid more attention to me when I was here.’

“‘To Sheila’ from the ‘Adore’ album by Smashing Pumpkins would be a good one, if you’re sitting there, mourning my loss.”

What’s more, Billy recently thought it would be “funny” to perform the Smashing Pumpkins’ track ‘Zero’ at a karaoke, but it backfired on him when he approached the performance as if it were an actual gig.

He said: “The last song I did at karaoke was ‘Zero’ by Smashing Pumpkins. I thought it would be funny to sing my own song, but the longer it went, the more I performed it like I was on stage in front of 50,000 people, and the less people thought it was funny.”

Meawhile, Corgan – who has also released four solo albums outside of the alternative rockband – was asked about the song he “secretly likes” and admitted that it is none other than ‘Roar’ by Katy Pery, although the pop star had a moment of confusion when she and Orlando Bloom met Dave and his family in person on the rare occasion he went to a party.

Billy – who is married to Chloe Mendel and has Augustus, nine, Philomena, six, and three-week-old Juno with her – said: “I don’t really go to parties. If I do, I’m usually horrified by what they play. My father played in dance bands in the 80s, so he’d play things like Celebration by Kool the Gang and ended up hating them. I must have inherited the same hatred.

“When “I hear ‘Roar’ by Katy Perry at the grocery store, I think: ‘That’s a good song.’ We were at a party and Katy and her husband mistook my wife for a nanny, because she was watching after all the children, and they were fishing around for a nanny.

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