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Smashing Pumpkins: Part 1 with Rob Harvilla

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The Indignance of Billy Corgan

The group released its first signal, I Am One in 1990 on a Chicago label called Limited Potential. "I am one as you are free to have a desire," Corgan says of the song's title. The band was disliked because of their popularity but part of it also had to do with Billy Corgan’s personality.

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