With tongue firmly planted in cheek, Billy Corgan has introduced he has entered an public sale for the prospect to win Courtney Love’s handwritten lyrics for Gap’s tune “Violet,” which was famously written about him.
The Smashing Pumpkins co-founder made the “very particular announcement” with a video put up on Instagram. “I simply purchased my ticket for the Ellis Park Wildlife Sanctuary public sale for the lyrics for ‘Violet’ written by Courtney Love,” he stated.
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“Now, it’s made lots of press this week that this public sale’s going off, so I’ve truly purchased my ticket as a result of I’d wish to win these lyrics as a result of I feel it’s a few man I do know a bit of bit about and I’d like to put that on my wall. Anyway, help this if you wish to, Ellispark.org and you’ll enter the public sale as effectively however you gotta purchase a ticket. I received three tickets for 20 bucks, so I’m in it to win it.”
As a part of a fundraiser being held by the wildlife sanctuary Ellis Park, all proceeds from the public sale will go to the Jakarta Animal Support Community, which helps the care of rescued animals in Sumatra, Indonesia. Enter the public sale or donate right here.
With “Violet” again within the press, Love just lately advised NME that the tune was “not simply” about her relationship with Corgan: “It’s about sitting on the hearth escape of his flat, sipping low cost wine and taking a Vicodin (oh, to be younger!) whereas the Chicago solar units, abandoning a bejewelled amethyst sky.”
Corgan addressed her assertion within the video, captioning a screenshot of the article with the next: “She forgot to say that I wrote one of many heart-rending couplets contained therein. However I’ll at all times love this tune. Love you Courtroom.”
“Violet” was the opening observe on Gap’s sophomore album, Stay By means of This (decide up a vinyl copy right here), and was penned by Love throughout the band’s tour forward of their 1991 debut album, Fairly on the Inside.
Again in 1995, Love stated the tune was “a few jerk, I hexed him and now he’s shedding his hair” throughout an look on Later…with Jools Holland.
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