Kevin Cronin

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2,143 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 21 Jan

Kevin Cronin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Kevin Cronin | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 21 Jan 2026 podcast

And the first album sold about 200,000 or so copies.

Yeah, yeah.

Irving Azoff was the manager, which didn't hurt.

A fellow Illinoisan.

Danville, Illinois.

And so Gary met me...

I played a song, the first real song I ever wrote, I played it for him on my Guild acoustic 12-string, and then I did one song that I used to play in the folk clubs around Chicago that I thought no one knew of.

It's the second cut on side two of Madman Across the Water.

The first cut on side two of Man Met Across Waters is this long opus that Elton and Bernie wrote about Native Americans, and it's kind of a cool thing, but I think it lost a lot of people.

Second cut is a song called Holiday Inn.

Okay.

I thought, sure, I was the only one in the world who ever heard it, and Gary felt the same way.

So I just, of all the songs... Oh, my goodness.

Of all the songs in the world that I could have picked to play,

So that, it was like, boom.

It was like, it was meant to be.

And so, yeah.

But it was his, it was, he was the, he's the guy who Irving saw and said, yeah, because they were playing fraternity parties and stuff like that.

But when Gary came, Irving saw it and went,

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