Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins claims he helped out Bono when U2 were making what would be their 2000 comeback album All That You Can’t Leave Behind.
In a new interview with Zane Lowe Corgan said, “So, I’m over in Dublin, circa 2000, and I go to visit Bono at his house. We stayed up all night, and in the morning, for some reason, me and him are the only people up, and he says, ‘I want to play you something. We’re going to have to go out in the car, because I don’t want to wake the house up.’”
Corgan continued, “So it’s me and him freezing in the driveway, and he pops in and he’s playing me what became the ‘It’s A Beautiful Day’ album, and it’s not all the way there, but sort of there. He goes, ‘Tell me honestly what you think.’ I’m like, ‘You really want me to give you my opinion?’ And I told him what I thought.”
Corgan concluded, “They actually used my advice! He let me know later, ‘Hey, we used your advice.’” Corgan didn’t reveal what that advice was.
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