My Page: William Patrick Corgan

My name has become this running joke throughout my life and, as I approached my mid-century mark, I started telling friends that I should go back to my Christian name, William. Growing up, I wasn’t Billy. My dad was Bill, so I jokingly started saying to people, “Call me William.” So Billy always felt a bit weird, like a stage name. When I asked people to start calling me by my given…

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