In 1997, Ric Ocasek spoke to us about working with Billy Corgan, how he invented himself and more
This interview originally appeared in the April 17, 1997 issue of Rolling Stonewalks out of the Blue Room at the Chung King House of Metal, in New York, you realize he’s impossibly tall — and reedlike to the point of being wispy. The man whom those over 25 know as the former leader of New Wave icons is here recording his fifth solo album; Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan is producing a few tracks, though he’s nowhere in sight.
A bit of a mental rash, actually. I put it off until I feel like it’s been too long and I’m just inspired by everything in the moment. I haven’t done that in about three years because I was in so many productions. So I just waited, and I wrote a lot in the meantime — maybe 60 songs. It’s hard to choose which ones will end up on the album, so I ask friends and family and see what they like.No, I actually met Billy at a gig. It was at Roseland a year ago.
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