Artists and Friends React to the Death of Alex Chilton

Yesterday Alex Chilton, the Memphis-raised singer, songwriter, performer, and producer, died in New Orleans. He was 59. It's impossible to express how much Chilton's work has meant to music in the last 40 or so years, particularly underground and independent rock. Though it represented just a few years from a long and varied career that included work with the Box Tops and many solo albums, Big Star, the group Chilton started in the early 1970s with Chris Bell, Andy Hummel, and Jody Stephens, is...

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