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Retracing Our Steps (2007–2014) KSCOPE

Thirty years after its release, Billy Corgan looks back at the making of The Smashing Pumpkins ’ era-defining big, bold, bombastic masterpiece Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness .

He turned down Hendrix, butted heads with Lemmy, was saved from a bad trip by Pete Townshend, present at a thousand pop-culture flashpoints… Ten Years After bassist Leo Lyons explains why he’s like “the rock’n’roll Forrest Gump”.

One of the most quoted facts in 90s music is that, at the height of Britpop in 1994, the winner of the Mercury Prize was M People, whose Elegant Slumming beat Blur, Pulp and The Prodigy. Less referenc