Frontman Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins is going all in on an auction item listed by the one and only Courtney Love -- handwritten lyrics for her former band Hole’s song “Violet” -- because he says, “I think it’s about a guy I know a little bit about.”
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Corgan shared a “special announcement” with fans on his Instagram revealing he had purchased tickets for the auction, saying, “I just bought my ticket for the Ellis Park Wildlife Sanctuary auction for the lyrics for ‘Violet’ written by Courtney Love.”
Billy adds, “Now, it’s made a lot of press this week that this auction’s going off, so I’ve actually bought my ticket because I’d like to win these lyrics because I think it’s about a guy I know a little bit about and I’d love to put that on my wall. Anyway, support this if you want to, Ellispark.org and you can enter the auction as well but you gotta buy a ticket. I got three tickets for 20 bucks, so I am in it to win it.”
Love explained recently that the song was not only about her and Corgan's relationship (in a 1995 Jools Holland interview Love said the song was “about a jerk, I hexed him and now he’s losing his hair”), but rather, “It’s about sitting on the fire escape of his flat, sipping cheap wine and taking a Vicodin (oh, to be young!) while the Chicago sun sets, leaving behind a bejewelled amethyst sky.”
In his video, The Smashing Pumpkins frontman responded to Love's version of the story saying, “She forgot to mention that I wrote one of the heart-rending couplets contained therein. But I will always love this song. Love you Court.”
Take a look at the official item listed by Love below -- and if you really want to spoil Billy's day, get "in it to win it" yourself right HERE.