Another dead rock star, this time Alex Chilton at age 59. Big Star’s Radio City remains a favourite album of mine. Check out the classic ‘September Gurls’.
Another Chilton favourite is his classic for entirely different reasons album ‘Like Flies on Sherbert’, reputed to have been recorded while he was drunk. Sure sounded like it.
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Oh no, those Big Star albums rate as some of the best around. Not to mention the influence they had on Paul Westerberg and others.
Westerbergs trubute to him done many years ago…
…won’t embed. But worth listening to anyway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HEZbM1Ha8Q
Right on! You *know* you’ve hit a nerve when an indie band uses your name as a song title.
The Replacements Alex Chilton is a great song too.
That’s a tragic loss! ‘Radio City’ was brilliant – my favourites from it would probably be ‘O My Soul’ and ‘Daisy Glaze’, but none of the tracks are exactly duds. Chilton’s one of those people who was influential beyond just their public profile…
yeah
Fuck.
“If he was from Venus, would he meet us on the moon?
If he died in Memphis, then that’d be cool, babe.”
He died in New Orleans. Damn.
Fuck.