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Smashing Pumpkins: Out on a limb

Pat Blashill, Details, October 1996

Billy Corgan is the zero who became a hero. But when Jonathan Melvoin died and Jimmy Chamberlin was dismissed from the Smashing Pumpkins, the world he ruled came crashing in on him. Pat Blashill surveys the wreckage.

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