Billy Corgan says he ‘lost his greatest opponent’ when Kurt Cobain died

The singer revealed in the interview that even though both Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana often went toe-to-toe with each other during the 1990s, he still respected the late Nirvana frontman.

Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan revealed Monday that the death of Kurt Cobain in 1994 left him extremely upset because he felt like he had “lost his greatest opponent.” “When Kurt died, I cried because […]

‘Kurt Cobain was a walking paradox’: inside the opera about the star’s final days | Opera

‘He held so many contradictions within himself’… Cobain in 1994.

The stage is dimly lit. Through the gloom, a figure emerges, muttering incomprehensibly. From a distance, the figure vaguely resembles Kurt Cobain – ragged clothes, dyed dirty-blond hair – a resemblance that increases when they […]