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Chilton grew up in a musical family. His father, Sidney Chilton, was a jazz pianist and saxophonist who sold industrial lighting to support his family. [4] A local band recruited the teenaged Chilton in 1966 to be their lead singer after learning of the popularity of his vocal performance at a talent show at Memphis's Central High School.
Chilton's subsequent solo career on small labels drew an intense following among indie and alternative rock musicians. According to The New York Times , George-Warren's biography addresses questions about Chilton's "wildly different incarnations as a cult figure" whose life and career confounded even the people closest to him, resulting in "a ...
His life was documented in the acclaimed documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, released in 2013 by Magnolia Pictures. Bell's life, and the career of Big Star, was documented in the 2018 book There Was a Light: The Cosmic History of Chris Bell and the Rise of Big Star. The 400-page oral-history style bio contains rare interviews with Bell ...
Jody Stephens (born October 4, 1952 [1]) is an American musician and producer who has played drums in Big Star (with Alex Chilton of the Box Tops) [2] and Golden Smog (with members of the Jayhawks and Wilco). After the deaths of Chris Bell in 1978, and Alex Chilton and Andy Hummel, both in 2010, Stephens is the last surviving original member of ...
Alex Chilton in 2009 during a Big Star performance at Hyde Park. Big Star's first post-reunion studio recording was the song "Hot Thing", recorded in the mid-1990s for the Big Star tribute album Big Star, Small World. [25] As with their prior studio release, however, the tribute album was delayed for years due to its record company going under.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ personal assets but dismissed his company’s separate bankruptcy case, leaving the immediate future of his ...
A Man Called Destruction is a studio album by American pop rock musician Alex Chilton, released in 1995.. The album consisted of six songs written by Chilton, and six cover versions including Jan and Dean's "The New Girl in School", which had featured as the B-side to their "Dead Man's Curve" single.
The author, Alex Blasdel, gets us up to date on what modern medical science is learning about the death experience. ... I've been studying reality all my life just like you. If this is some new ...