Billy Corgan says Kurt Cobain was "the most talented guy of our generation" and reveals he cried when Cobain died because he'd "lost his greatest opponent"

Billy Corgan and Kurt Cobain

Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan has described Nirvana's Kurt Cobain as "the most talented guy of our generation" and says that he cried when Cobain died in 1994 because he felt that he had lost "his greatest opponent."

Corgan's comments come in a new interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music.