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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. The first time many people heard Alex Chilton’s name ...
Jul 9, 2013 · Big Star’s Big Documentary. July 9, 2013 ... who explains why he wrote and recorded the tribute single “Alex Chilton.” “We just want people to know who Alex is, who never heard of Big Star ...
Mar 27, 2014 · Music journalist Holly George-Warren's new book traces the troubled life and backwards career arc of Big Star's Alex Chilton. Reviewer Jason Heller says the book is a poignant and forthright portrait.
Mar 24, 2014 · In her new biography, A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man, author Holly George-Warren sheds much needed light on her subject ...
Dec 28, 2022 · In a business that reinvents itself at every turn, Alex Chilton thrived for four decades with a three-fold career -- his early recordings as a blue-eyed soul vocalist with the Box Tops; the idiosyncratic, British-influenced power pop albums he did with Big Star in the mid-'70s (and after the group re-formed with a new lineup in 1993); and the spate of cool but chaotic solo albums he recorded ...
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Mar 10, 2020 · Alex Chilton was mowing the grass at his home on Esplanade Avenue when he felt shortness of breath. His wife, Laura, rushed home from work to race him to Tulane Medical Center. “Run the red light,” Alex rasped as they sped along the pothole-ridden pavement of New Orleans. No one expected Alex to be gone so soon—especially not of a heart ...
Feb 13, 1997 · Alex Chilton, who passed away in 2010, was that rare artist who reinvented himself over and over again, often abandoning earlier successful formulas. He ran the gamut: working in many genres including the Memphis blue-eyed soul of the Box Tops (singing the number one hit “The Letter” at age 16) the Beatles-meets-Beale Street-high harmony of ...
