10 Great Bands Almost Ruined By Their Frontmen

7. Smashing Pumpkins - Billy Corgan

WikipediaWikipediaEdging out both Thom Yorke and Chris Martin in the 'CHEER UP' stakes, Corgan has repeatedly forced his moaning and whining onto the world for the best part of three decades. Even those around him can't seem to stand him; an ever-changing Smashing Pumpkins lineup and a revolving cast of personal relationships can attest to that. Whilst dating Courtney Love, he refused to even attend Frances Bean Cobain's birthday party, and when two of his band members ended up in hospital after a drug overdose, he fired the one that survived shortly after the other one sadly died. Nice guy. After that, there's the weird half-Christianity, half-Buddhism approach to life that he likes to push onto everyone, and his Twitter page is an inane, rambling recital of religious inspiration/Hallmark poems. He's awfully out of touch too; once describing iTunes as making music 'too cuddly', yet recently starred in an Illinois furniture commercial. Edgy. Besides, who voluntarily shaves themselves bald?
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