Big Star's Third: 'It's hard to nail the chaos'

Big Star's chaotic album Third is so shrouded in mystery it doesn't have an official title or running order. How do you go about recreating it live?'I thought it would encounter difficulties," says John Fry, with delicious understatement, down the phone from Ardent Studios in Memphis, which he founded in 1959. "I thought people would find it so unconventional and so unfriendly that we would have difficulties." He's remembering 1975, when Ardent's promotions man, John King, and Jim Dickinson were...

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