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Mar 24, 2014 · As the leader of hugely influential but largely unpopular power-pop icons Big Star, Alex Chilton was perhaps the quintessential rock & roll cult hero. But Chilton, a gifted songwriter, angelic...
May 3, 2024 · Alex Chilton was an American singer and songwriter who, as frontman of the seminal power pop band Big Star, crafted a body of work whose influence far outstripped its volume. Chilton was age 16 when he began his musical career as the lead singer of the Memphis blue-eyed soul group the DeVilles.
Mar 21, 2010 · Alex Chilton, who died last week at the age of 59, had a strange and complicated relationship with fame. He achieved it early as the lead singer for the Box Tops, struggled to recapture it in...
Apr 11, 2014 · The band's singer, Alex Chilton —barely old enough to vote at the time—was crashing at Dennis Wilson ’s house in Pacific Palisades with a motley crew of musicians and hangers-on. Among them was...
Dec 28, 2023 · Alex Chilton was many things: a blue-eyed soul singer, a Big Star power-popper and an indie iconoclast. The one thing he was not? Forgotten. Published on. December 28, 2023. By. Brett Milano....
Mar 18, 2010 · He was 59 years old. Rock snobs describe Chilton as one of modern music's great underappreciated figures. Some say he helped invent power pop. But a few years ago, Chilton told WHYY's Fresh Air...
Mar 18, 2010 · Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, known for his influential work with bands the Box Tops and Big Star, died Wednesday. He was 59. Chilton died at a hospital in New Orleans after experiencing...
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