Lead singer Billy Corgan says he wrote 1979 about a time somewhere between childhood and adulthood. He recalls a rainy night where he was waiting at the traffic lights in his bombed out car, still at school but with adult responsibilities. He described the feeling as ‘knowing your not quite there’, but success, or failure is just around the corner.1979 made #12 in the U.S. and spawned a sillborn video where The Smashing Pumpkins play house band at a teen party. A member of the film crew left the tape (which took 3 days to film) on the roof of his car and drove off. Some say as punishment he had to stand in the city centre wearing a sandwich board advertising his incompetence. Either way, the last song to scrape on to ‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness’ made the album great.
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