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If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.
Billy Corgan
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Billy Corgan
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 17
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Billy Burke
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Johnny Goat
William Patrick Corgan
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