Billy Corgan Net Worth
Billy Corgan Net Worth is
$50 Million
Billy Corgan Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
William Patrick "Billy" Corgan Jr. is an American musician, producer, lyricist, writer, and poet, best known as the frontman and sole permanent member of The Smashing Pumpkins. Formed by Corgan and guitarist James Iha in Chicago, Illinois, in 1987, the band quickly gained st... | Full Name | Billy Corgan |
| Net Worth | $50 Million |
| Date Of Birth | March 17, 1967 |
| Place Of Birth | Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States |
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.9 m) |
| Profession | Singer, Musician, Record producer, Songwriter, Author, Guitarist, Singer-songwriter, Writer, Poet, Composer |
| Education | Glenbard North High School |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Spouse | Chris Fabian (m. 1993–1997) |
| Children | Augustus Juppiter Corgan |
| Parents | Martha Louise Maes Corgan Lutz, William Corgan Sr., Bullet With Butterfly Wings, 1979, Disarm |
| Siblings | Ricky Corgan, Jesse Andersen, Bullet With Butterfly Wings, 1979, Disarm |
| Nicknames | billy_corgan , William Patrick Corgan, Jr. , Corgan, Billy , William Patrick Corgan , William Patrick "Billy" Corgan, Jr. , The Smashing Pumpkins , Zwan , William Patrick "Billy" Corgan Jr. , William Patrick Corgan Jr. , DJ Ivory Tower |
| Music Groups | The Smashing Pumpkins (Since 1988), Zwan (2001 – 2003), Spirits in the Sky, Starchildren |
| Nominations | American Music Awards, Grammy Awards, and MTV Video Music Awards |
| Movies | Spun |
| TV Shows | "Right After Wrestling" (2010) |
| Star Sign | Pisces |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Fender Stratocaster |
| 2 | Shaved head |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | [on creativity] When you have it, it feels like a font that just flows through you, and everything gets real easy. And then one day it sort of slows down or it stops and you tell yourself, 'I'm just having a bad day or a bad month'. And the next thing you know, people start doubting you, you don't have that magic touch. And then you start doubting yourself. |
| 2 | [on celebrity] Imagine if every week of your life for the rest of your life somebody'd be walking down the street going, 'Here's a picture of you when you were eighteen. Didn't you have a better hairstyle then? Look at this T-shirt you were wearing. Don't you want to wear that T-shirt again?' That's what it's like. It's a mirrored paradigm which you cannot escape. And if you complain, which I have, you're not grateful. |
| 3 | "You'll never see Zwan. I'll never go anywhere near those people. Ever. I mean, I detest them." (about the chances of Zwan reuniting.) |
| 4 | "The album was going to come out. So I did what I always did: Try to make the best of a situation. I start covering up. Put on a good face. And honestly, as God is my witness, I'm glad the thing didn't sell, because if it had sold then it would have been really tough. I would look like I was insane to walk away from something that I'd just built." (about his uncomfortable situation with his former band Zwan and how grateful he was when Mary Star of the Sea album flopped.) |
| 5 | You can put out the big fire [Napster], but there are 100 other little fires ready to spring up, and you'll never put them all out. Ultimately, music is going to be free. |
| 6 | I hate that in magazines, they always stick me somewhere in the back. It means they don't think I'm the cute one. |
| 7 | Don't judge yourself by other people's standards. You'll always lose. |
| 8 | Life is everything and nothing all at once. |
| 9 | As a 28-year-old who has lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt at 16 were not necessarily correct. But however over dramatic, the desperation and hopelessness I felt at 16 was my reality. |
| 10 | It's a Backstreet Boy world, and at the end of the day, you just want to go home and kill yourself. |
| 11 | (On The Tonight Show) Jay Leno: "So why is the band splitting up?" Billy Corgan: "Comedy doesn't pay." |
| 12 | Great music completely obliterates any concept of genre |
| 13 | Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth. |
| 14 | Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color you're not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song Cow. |
| 15 | (At a Smashing Pumpkins concert, just before an acoustic song) Corgan: "Are you ready to rock!" (Crowd cheers.) Corgan: "Well then you are in the wrong place." |
| 16 | Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school. |
| 17 | The thing that makes it all worth it is when somebody comes up and says 'I had a really hard time in my life and your album really helped me.' As long as that happens, all the idiots in the world and all the stupid press can say what they want to. It just doesn't matter. |
| 18 | We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love, rock 'n' roll, whatever. But we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do to their bodies. We're just a rock band. |
| 19 | For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right. |
| 20 | We used to compete with Nirvana. That was good. That was real. That was viscerally good. Now we compete with imitation-Nirvana. There's nothing good in that. ...It's really sad. |
| 21 | The basic Pumpkins philosophy from the beginning was that everything had already been done. You couldn't write better songs than the Beatles, you couldn't be heavier than Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath, you couldn't be cooler than Cheap Trick. There was no way you were gonna top that. So all you could really do was try to rip off what you liked about it and sort of throw it back at people in a different way. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | His father's ancestry is Irish, Scottish, and English. His mother's lineage is half Belgian (Flemish) and half Italian/Sicilian. |
| 2 | Huge fan of professional wrestling. |
| 3 | recording a debut solo album after splitting up with his former band, Zwan. [2004] |
| 4 | His first solo album, entitled "The Future Embrace" was released on the 21st June. [June 2005] |
| 5 | He first appeared with his head shaved in an episode of "Saturday Night Live" in 1995. |
| 6 | The last footage of Billy with hair is the video for "Bullet With Butterfly Wings". |
| 7 | Started shaving his head when he began losing his hair in the 1990's. |
| 8 | Attended Glenbard North High School, also attended by Kiele Sanchez. |
| 9 | Co-wrote the Courtney Love and Hole song, "Celebrity Skin". |
| 10 | The Smashing Pumpkins album, "Machina II", was never released in stores. Instead, out of his angst toward the animosity of the record company, he released the album for download, free of charge, from his website. |
| 11 | Only member of the Smashing Pumpkins to appear on every album. |
| 12 | During the band's over 20 years together, the Smashing Pumpkins put forward nine critically acclaimed albums: Gish, Siamese Dream, Pisces Iscariot, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Adore, Machina the Machines of God, Machina II the Friends and Enemies of Modern Music, Zeitgeist and Oceania. |
| 13 | Composed most of the songs for both his bands, The Smashing Pumpkins and Zwan. He also co-wrote the album "Celebrity Skin" for Courtney Love's band Hole. |
| 14 | After buying a pawn shop guitar, he discovered that it whined when he stopped playing it. Instead of trading in the guitar, he actually wrote the whine into the song "Mayonaise". |
| 15 | The debut album of his new band 'Zwan' has been a critical fave, as most of Smashing Pumpkins' albums were, and the band plans to spend 2003 touring in support of the disc. Corgan says Zwan will play no Smashing Pumpkins material in their shows, because he wants the band to establish itself independently of the Pumpkins. |
| 16 | Billy Corgan made a short movie with his friends in the early 1980s, titled "Alien 1/2". The premise was basically a semi-sequel to Ridley Scott's "Alien", before James Cameron's "Aliens" was released in 1986. Corgan and his friends play astronauts who travel to a distant planet, only to be attacked by an alien (it's actually a plush Tazmanian devil doll). Corgan and his comrades use such tools as a pink hair dryer to combat the beast, which flies above their heads, thanks to some fishing line. Action sequences include a spaceship landing on the planet's surface, which was achieved by a thin piece of paper, folded into a tirangular shape (for the spaceship), and what appears to be a flat picture of a red planet (most likely Mars). Corgan utters the dramatic line, "And nowwwww, the end is near!". Bits of this movie were broadcasted on VH1's "Before They Were Rock Stars". |
| 17 | Has formed a new band called 'Zwan' with former Smashing Pumpkins drummer, Jimmy Chamberlin, guitarist Matt Sweeney (from New York indie rock group Chavez), bassist/guitarist/keyboardist David Pajo (from Papa M, Ariel M, Tortoise) and later adding bassist Paz Lenchantin (from A Perfect Circle). |
| 18 | Guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist, and songwriter for the band Smashing Pumpkins from 1988-2000. When asked about how his band and others from the "alternative revolution" did in changing the music industry for the better, he responded "We didn't do a very good job." |
| 19 | Has a large red birthmark that covers the top of his left hand. |
| 20 | Briefly joined the British band New Order in 2001, performing live as stand-in guitarist. |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Shield | 2006 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Air Guitar Nation | 2006 | Documentary writer: "Cherub Rock" - as William Corgan | |
| Smallville | 2005 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Band Camp | 2005 | Video writer: "Forget It" - as William Patrick Corgan | |
| National Treasure | 2004 | writer: "Forget It" | |
| S.P.U.N.G | TV Series lyrics - 2 episodes, 2004 music - 2 episodes, 2004 | ||
| Juggalo Championshxt Wrestling Volume 3 | 2003 | Video writer: "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" | |
| Mayor of the Sunset Strip | 2003 | Documentary writer: "Malibu" - as William Corgan | |
| Crossing Jordan | 2002 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Spun | 2002 | arranger: "Jesus, I Have Taken My Cross" - as Corgan / writer: "Freedom Ain't What It Used to Be", "Think You Know", "Revolve", "Wasting Time" | |
| On the Edge | 2001 | writer: "1979" | |
| Homicide: The Movie | 2000 | TV Movie writer: "Crestfallen" | |
| Juggalo Championshxt Wrestling Vol. 2 | 2000 | Video writer: "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" | |
| Any Given Sunday | 1999 | writer: "BE A MAN" | |
| Stigmata | 1999 | writer: "Identify" | |
| American Pie | 1999 | writer: "Celebrity Skin" | |
| Free Tibet | 1998 | Documentary writer: "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", "Silverfuck" - as B. Corgan | |
| First Love, Last Rites | 1997 | performer: "When I Was Born, I Was Bored" | |
| Batman & Robin | 1997 | producer: "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" / writer: "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" | |
| Lost Highway | 1997 | producer: "Eye" / writer: "Eye" | |
| Ransom | 1996 | performer: "Lizards", "Rats", "Rats with tails", "Spiders", "Squirrels", "Worms 1", "Worms with vocals" / producer: "Lizards", "Rats", "Rats with tails", "Spiders", "Squirrels", "Worms 1", "Worms with vocals" / writer: "Lizards", "Rats", "Rats with tails", "Spiders", "Squirrels", "Worms 1", "Worms with vocals" | |
| The Simpsons | 1996 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Top of the Pops | 1995 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Salto al vacío | 1995/I | writer: "Disarm" - as William Corga / writer: "Mayonaise" - as William Corgan | |
| Lassie | 1994 | writer: "Today" - as William Corgan | |
| Singles | 1992 | producer: "Drown" / writer: "Drown" | |
| 1992 | 2015 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | 2015 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| My Mad Fat Diary | 2014 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Girls | 2014 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Bad Words | 2013 | writer: "Snail" | |
| Glee | 2012 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 2010-2012 | TV Series writer - 3 episodes | |
| Footloose | 2011 | writer: "Window Paine" | |
| Todd's Pop Song Reviews | 2011 | TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode | |
| 10 Years | 2011 | writer: "Tonite, Tonite" | |
| The Chicago Code | 2011 | TV Series performer - 13 episodes | |
| Hop | 2011 | writer: "Celebrity Skin" | |
| 20 to 1 | 2010 | TV Series documentary writer - 2 episodes | |
| South Park | 2009 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Flashforward | 2009 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Cold Case | 2009 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Guitar Hero 5 | 2009 | Video Game writer: "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" | |
| Fanboys | 2009 | writer: "Today" | |
| Paging David Cronenberg | 2008 | Short "Eye" | |
| 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs | 2008 | TV Movie writer: "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" | |
| Sputnik | 2008 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
| Guitar Hero World Tour | 2008 | Video Game writer: "Today" | |
| Grand Theft Auto IV | 2008 | Video Game writer: "1979" - as B. Corgan | |
| Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock | 2007 | Video Game writer: "Cherub Rock" | |
| Tony Hawk's Proving Ground | 2007 | Video Game writer: "Tarantula" | |
| Transformers | 2007 | writer: "Doomsday Clock" | |
| When a Man Falls | 2007 | performer: "Shangra-La", "Sky Of Blue", "Whisper" / writer: "Shangra-La", "Sky Of Blue", "Whisper" | |
| Rock Band | 2007 | Video Game writer: "Celebrity Skin", "Cherub Rock" | |
| Clerks II | 2006 | writer: "1979" - as William Corgan | |
| SingStar Rocks! | 2006 | Video Game writer: "Celebrity Skin" |
Composer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head Games | 2012 | Documentary | |
| Gran Turismo 5 | 2010 | Video Game | |
| Smashing Pumpkins: If All Goes Wrong | 2008 | Video documentary | |
| Masters of Horror | 2005 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things | 2004 | ||
| Spun | 2002 | ||
| Graceful Swans of Never | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Hole: Be a Man | 2000 | Video short uncredited | |
| Stigmata | 1999 |
Music Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica Simpson: The Price of Beauty | 2010 | TV Series composer - 2 episodes | |
| Stigmata | 1999 | music mixer / music programmer | |
| Ransom | 1996 | music producer: Kidnapper's Boombox Music |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alternative Press Music Award Show | 2014 | TV Movie | |
| Spun | 2002 | Doctor |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Smashing Pumpkins: 1991-2000 Greatest Hits Video Collection | 2001 | Video video "Thirty-Three" |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Try | 2000 | Short |
Producer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owata | 2011 | Short executive producer |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet Daddy | 2016 | Documentary special thanks post-production | |
| The Sheik | 2014 | Documentary special thanks | |
| GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling | 2012 | Documentary special thanks | |
| Hit So Hard | 2011 | Documentary thanks |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Man in the Camo Jacket | 2016 | Documentary post-production | Himself |
| The Swerve | 2015-2016 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Smart Studios Story | 2016 | Documentary | Himself |
| Rock Icons | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | 2015 | TV Series | Himself - Musical Guest: The Smashing Pumpkins |
| The Irish Rock Story: A Tale of Two Cities | 2015 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| 6 Music: In Concert | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| Algren | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Beautiful Noise | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Hurricane Festival 2013 | 2013 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Smashing Pumpkins: Oceania 3D Live in NYC | 2013 | Video | Himself |
| Barbed Wire City: The Unauthorized Story of Extreme Championship Wrestling | 2013 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Downloaded | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
| Last Call with Carson Daly | 2012 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Rage | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| Revolution with Brian Solis | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| Piers Morgan Tonight | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| TNA Today | 2012 | TV Series | Himself |
| Sunset Strip | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Live at the Metro, 1993 | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
| Music | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| Ce soir (ou jamais!) | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
| Spin's 25th Anniversary Concert Series | 2010 | TV Mini-Series | Himself |
| Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| We Believe | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Chris Isaak Hour | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Fillmore Residency | 2008 | Video | Himself |
| Smashing Pumpkins: If All Goes Wrong | 2008 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Durch die Nacht mit... | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Smashing Pumpkins: Live from Tower Theater in Philadelphia | 2007 | Video | Vocals and Guitars |
| Smashing Pumpkins: Inside the Zeitgeist | 2007 | Video documentary short | |
| Chasing October | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Return of Courtney Love | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Loops! | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Best Hit USA | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 1994-2005 | TV Series | Himself - Musical Guest / Himself |
| Late Show with David Letterman | 2003-2005 | TV Series | Himself / Themselves |
| WrestleMania 21 | 2005 | TV Special | Himself |
| New Order: 5 11 Live in Finsbury Park June 9th 2002 | 2003 | Video | Himself |
| Saturday Night Live | 2003 | TV Series | Himself - Musical Guest |
| Graceful Swans of Never | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Smashing Pumpkins: 1991-2000 Greatest Hits Video Collection | 2001 | Video | Himself |
| WWE Smackdown! | 2001 | TV Series | Himself |
| Bozo: 40 Years of Fun! | 2001 | TV Movie | Himself - Musical Guest |
| 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock | 2000 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself - Member, Smashing Pumpkins |
| CNN World Beat | 2000 | TV Series | Himself |
| @MTV with the Smashing Pumpkins | 2000 | TV Special | Himself - Performer |
| Smashing Pumpkins: Full Circle | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Extreme Championship Wrestling: Anarchy Rulz '99 | 1999 | Video | Himself |
| Behind the Music | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The 41st Annual Grammy Awards | 1999 | TV Special | Himself |
| Howard Stern | 1997-1998 | TV Series | Himself |
| Free Tibet | 1998 | Documentary | Himself (Smashing Pumpkins) |
| The 39th Annual Grammy Awards | 1997 | TV Special | Himself (as the Smashing Pumpkins) |
| David Bowie: An Earthling at 50 | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Live on Stage with Bowie |
| Wired for Sound: A Guitar Odyssey | 1997 | Documentary | Himself |
| MTV News: Year in Rock 1996 | 1996 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| MTV Video Music Awards 1996 | 1996 | TV Special | Himself |
| The Simpsons | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
| Lola da musica | 1996 | TV Series | Himself |
| Smashing Pumpkins: Vieuphoria | 1994 | Video documentary | Himself |
| MTV Video Music Awards 1994 | 1994 | TV Special | Himself |
| Freaks, Nerds & Weirdos | 1994 | TV Movie | Himself |
| 24 Hours in Rock and Roll | 1994 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs | 2008 | TV Movie | Himself |
| La tierra de las 1000 músicas | 2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Rise & Fall of ECW | 2004 | Video documentary | Himself |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Golden Reel Award | Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA | Best Sound Editing - Music (Foreign & Domestic) | Stigmata (1999) |
| 1998 | Razzie Award | Razzie Awards | Worst Original Song | Batman & Robin (1997) |
Known for movies
Ransom (1996)
as Music Department
Batman & Robin (1997)
as Soundtrack
Transformers (2007)
as Soundtrack
Lost Highway (1997)
as Soundtrack
