Billy Corgan
Adam Sweeting, Guardian, The, 21 February 2003
BILLY CORGAN has been dreaming of Christina Aguilera, pop's best undressed woman. She was staying at the same London hotel as Corgan's new band, Zwan, but, while Zwan were able to potter around the corridors incognito, Aguilera was besieged by photographers and deluged with bouquets of flowers and huge tubs of fruit. Corgan began to fantasise that there was some mysterious force that kept bringing them together.
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