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The same month, it was announced that a film of Big Star's history, based on Rob Jovanovic's book Big Star: The Story of Rock's Forgotten Band, was in pre-production. [30] On July 1, 2009, Big Star performed at a concert in Hyde Park, London , U.K. [ 31 ] On September 15, 2009, Rhino Records issued a four-CD box set containing 98 recordings ...
On July 1, 1943, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League's first midseason All-Star Game was played under temporary lights at Wrigley Field, between two teams composed of South Bend Blue Sox and Rockford Peaches players versus Kenosha Comets and Racine Belles players. It was also the first night game ever played in the ballpark.
#1 Record is the debut studio album by the American rock band Big Star.It was released on April 24, 1972, by Memphis-based Ardent Records.. Many critics praised the album's vocal harmonies and songcraft but #1 Record suffered from poor distribution and sold fewer than 10,000 copies upon its initial release.
Christopher Branford Bell (January 12, 1951 – December 27, 1978) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. Along with Alex Chilton, he led the power pop band Big Star through its first album #1 Record (1972).
The Big Star stores were self-service supermarket operations which began to replace the small full-service stores Pender's had operated up to that point. By the late 1940s the entire company had rebranded under the Colonial Stores name. The Big Star name was revived around 1968 for a new discount chain owned by Colonial; eventually all stores ...
The final Big Star studio album, entitled In Space, with songs penned by the then-current lineup, was released by Rykodisc on September 27, 2005. Big Star's October 29, 1994, performance, their only known show to be professionally filmed in its entirety, was released in November 2014 by Omnivore Recordings as Live in Memphis . [ 15 ]
The star of a beloved 1980s film looked practically unrecognizable when he was spotted during a recent public outing in Los Angeles, Calif. David Moscow starred as 12-year-old Josh Baskin in 1988 ...
In Space features new original material credited to all four members, alongside the occasional cowriter, along with two covers. According to Ken Stringfellow's recollections in the liner notes of the album's 2019 reissue, the album came about due to Chilton's reluctance to play much of Big Star's pre-existing back catalogue, preferring to record new material.