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PUMPKIN TREAT HIGHLAND PARK RESIDENT BILLY CORGAN WILL PLAY EIGHT LIVE SOLO SHOWS AT HIS HIGHLAND PARK TEAHOUSE, MADAME ZUZU’S, IN OCTOBER. THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND READERS HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE FIRST CRACK AT TICKETS. BY MITCH HURST THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Billy Corgan knew something was up in 1993 just prior to the release of the Smashing Pumpkins’ seminal second album, Siamese Dream. The band was scheduled to perform in-store at the old Tower Records in Lincoln Park in Chicago, and thousands of fans descended. The police weren’t happy. “We did a record release party and they had to close the street down because so many people showed up,” Corgan says. “It was wild because it was the first time we were playing some of these songs and the audience was singing along to every word and I was like, ‘How do they even know the record?’” The mystery was solved when someone pulled Corgan aside to let him know a cassette of Siamese Dream had been circulating underground for more than a month. The record had gone pre-Internet viral. It is the early days of Smashing Pumpkins that Corgan wishes to revisit during eight intimate solo shows in October at Madame Zuzu’s Tearoom in Highland Park, the teahouse and restaurant Corgan owns with partner, Chloe Mendel. Continued on PG 10
Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins will be revisiting songs from the early days of the band during eight intimate, solo shows in October at Madame Zuzu’s Teahouse in Highland Park.
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