Billy Corgan says he ‘lost his greatest opponent’ when Kurt Cobain died

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during an Apple Music interview. “I want to beat the best. I don’t want to win the championship because it’s just me and a bunch of jabronis, to use a wrestling term.”“It’s like Michael Jordan, arguably the greatest sports competitor I’ll ever see in my lifetime,” he added.The Post reached out to Corgan for comment.The singer revealed in the interview that even though both Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana often went toe-to-toe with each other during the 1990s, he still respected the late Nirvana frontman.“I will go down always as saying, Kurt was the most talented guy of our generation,” he said. “Kurt had so much talent.

It’s like frightening. It was like a John Lennon level of talent, where you’re like, ‘How can you have all this talent?’ Or Prince, right?”“But Kurt’s not here, sadly,” continued Corgan. “So I looked around, I was like, ‘All right, well, I could beat the rest of them for sure.'”In 1991, the Pumpkins released their debut album “Gish” only to be overshadowed by Cobain and Nirvana’s “Nevermind” record a few months later.This setback didn’t stop Corgan. “I want the Pumpkins standing on the top of the heap of our generation,” he told Apple. “If that means I got to write 800 songs to do it, I’ll do it.

I ain’t shy about that.”The frontman’s wish came true in 1993 when the group struck gold with their hit “Siamese Dream” and dethroned Nirvana from the No.

1 slot on the Billboard charts. Nirvana’s return to prominence was cut short when the 27-year-old Cobain killed himself a year later.