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Billy Corgan Collapses: Blacks Out At Smashing Pumpkins Show

Billy Corgan Collapses: Blacks Out At Smashing Pumpkins Show
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Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan blacked out and fell onto his drummer's kit during the band's live performance in Tampa Bay, Florida on Wednesday night. The 43-year-old alt-rocker was performing their 1995 hit 'Bullet With Butterfly Wings' when the lights went out in his head.

"That wasn't a stage move or clumsiness, that was me blacking out and wiping out," he told his Twitter followers the next morning.

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