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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Rick Springfield | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan

Music, Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 731 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Billy Corgan welcomes Grammy‑winner Rick Springfield for an unfiltered tour through five decades of reinvention: the bubble‑gum‑pink days in the Aussie psych outfit Zoot to Rick’s audacious spin on “Eleanor Rigby,” the labyrinth of visa nightmares and fine‑print contracts that nearly derailed him, his detour into acting that stretched from The Six Million Dollar Man cameos to his star‑making turn as Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital. Springfield also recounts the marathon climb of “Jessie’s Girl,” the Working Class Dog era, and the brutal mental‑health reset that saved his career and his life. If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988. You can also text HOME to 741741 to connect with a Crisis Counselor. These services are free, confidential, and available 24/7 Subscribe to the Magnificent Others YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BillyCorganTMO?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We've gotten a lot of fights just because, well, we were cute and we wore pink.

0:04.8

So that's all you needed.

0:06.3

You're aware, like, this moment doesn't last. No. I was very aware. And I could blow it. It's not like you just get off a train and like, hey, I'll get back on this train in a year from now. You know that train's going to be long gone on the track. And by the way, and I don't know what if you were,

0:19.9

there's also the predatory part of the music business,

0:22.1

but they don't care what you're going through.

0:24.6

You know, And by the way, and I don't know what if you were, there's also the predatory part of the music business, but they don't care what you're going through.

0:24.9

You know, go talk to this radio guy, go do this interview, because they need you to keep.

0:29.3

Yeah, they need you to keep producing.

0:33.7

I want to talk about Zoot.

0:35.6

How do I not know about Zoot? I went on my Zoot Deep dive, and I was shocked.

0:42.3

Because I love kind of psychedelic rock, and I'm listening, I'm like, however I've never heard of Zoot, it was really good.

0:50.6

Yeah, it was a teen band that I joined after they'd had like some pop hits, you know,

0:59.0

and then Led Zethlin was on the horizon, and because I'm a guitar player, I said, you know,

1:04.6

dude, we've got to change this thing. Do you still have the white SG? I do. I do. I do.

1:10.6

That guitar sounds good.

1:12.1

It's amazing.

1:12.9

I use that on, I still use it.

1:15.4

Really?

1:15.9

Yeah, I bought, that was my first good guitar, because usually, you know, when you're young and you want to trade up, get a better guitar, you've got to sell the one you have, right?

1:25.1

Yeah.

1:25.6

But that one was the first American guitar I had, Because I grew up in Australia and England, but when I was looking for guitars, I was in Australia, and you couldn't get Gibson a Fender. It was just a, out of the price. What was the common brand in Australia then? We had the German ones, Hoffner. We had Framus. Framus. My first guitar was a Framist. Yes. Framus Hollywood. So, yeah, so I'm doing my research on you, and I see this is the band Zoot. And it was like, think, think, pink, think Zoot. Yeah, that was a teen thing. And you guys all wore pink, right? Yeah, it was horrible, dude. And now, at some point, you burned the pink outfits on television. Wow. You have dived deep. Yeah, it was... I couldn't find footage of the burning of the pink outfits. I know. Yeah, it was... We got under so many fights backstage because there was no security back in the 60s, you know.

2:19.7

So people just wander back and just start swinging, you know, and we, you know, I said, we've got to get rid of the pink.

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