Smashing PumpkinsDrummer Jimmy Chamberlin has left Smashing Pumpkins, making Billy Corgan the only original Pumpkin left in the lineup.

“The SMASHING PUMPKINS’ guitarist, singer, songwriter and founding member Billy Corgan has announced that drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has left the group,” read a statement on the band’s website Friday. “Chamberlin joined the band Corgan founded in Chicago in 1988 and played on all their albums except Adore (1998).”

The statement added that Corgan will continue to write and record as Smashing Pumpkins and plans to head into the studio later this spring.

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