Rocket (The Smashing Pumpkins song)

"Rocket"
Single by the Smashing Pumpkins
from the album Siamese Dream
B-side"Never Let Me Down Again"
ReleasedDecember 1994[1]
Recorded1993
Genre
Length4:06
LabelVirgin
Songwriter(s)Billy Corgan
Producer(s)
The Smashing Pumpkins singles chronology
"Disarm"
(1994) 		"Rocket"
(1994) 		"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
(1995)
Music video
"Rocket" on YouTube

"Rocket" is a song by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. It was the fourth and penultimate single from their second album, Siamese Dream, and was written by Billy Corgan. The song charted in Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, as well as on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. It was one of the few singles that did not appear on the Smashing Pumpkins' greatest hits album Rotten Apples.

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