Ah, Smashing Pumpkins news that doesn’t involve their so far disastrous reunion and Billy Corgan’s huge ego! Well, kind of.

The recently reformed act announced last week they’ be heading on tour as a celebration of the band’s 30th anniversary, performing tracks released prior to 2000, encompassing their genre-defining alternative albums like Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness. 

The reformation, as you probably know hasn’t been exactly smooth nor drama-free, living up to the controversy and myth that riddled the band’s actual hey-day.

To tease OG Pumpkins fans in the lead up to the tour, the band’s promotional team tracked down the two girls who donned the cover of their 1993 album Siamese Dream.

During the album cover shoot, the two models Ali Laenger and LySandra Roberts were just seven years old, with the image of the two girls wearing butterfly wings smiling blissfully in the sunlight going on to become one of the most iconic images of the 90s.

Billy Corgan has taken to Instagram to reminisce about the album cover, saying that reuniting with the girls “brought tears to his eyes” and stated that he didn’t realize the photo would go on to become “such an iconic image in rock history.”

“What’s amazing is their chemistry with one another still leaps through the camera to this day and yet if memory serves they’d never met before that Siamese shoot. Which tells me their coming together, and the beauty that Melodie’s shot captures, of youth and innocence, was meant to be SP’s own, personal lucky star”

On such a special day in SP history, I want to take a moment to thank Ali and LySandra, who you might know were the little girls that I stood by and watched have their picture taken some 23 years ago (on what was a perfect LA afternoon). Never realizing that this moment in time would forever tie usr, and go on to become such an iconic image in rock history. What’s amazing is their chemistry with one another still leaps through the camera to this day and yet if memory serves they’d never met before that Siamese shoot. Which tells me their coming together, and the beauty that Melodie’s shot captures, of youth and innocence, was meant to be SP’s own, personal lucky star. So thank you thank you thank you Ali and LySandra, we adore you, and having you be a part of today’s launch brings tears to my eyes. For life goes fast, and I can still see you in my mind’s eye wearing crisp white dresses in a stranger’s backyard, looking like little Mother Mary’s, smiling and laughing into the sun.

A post shared by WilliamPatrickCorgan (@williampcorgan) on Feb 15, 2018 at 7:42pm PST

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