Flashback: Big Star Classics By Beck, Wilco, Elliott Smith and More
This week the rock world lost Alex Chilton, so we’re devoting our Flashback to covers of Big Star songs by artists ranging from Beck to Wilco to the Bangles, who perform the classic “September Gurls” in the video above. As Rob Sheffield wrote in his remembrance of Chilton, the singer was “the ultimate indie cult [...]
Rolling Stone — Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty
Alex Chilton, singer and guitarist of Big Star, one of the most influential rock groups to emerge from the early 1970s, has passed away... more info
Guardian Music — My life has been guided by Big Star and the music of Alex Chilton. Here are some of my favourite memories …March 3, 1990A tired-looking man is on stage in a half-em... more info
MTV.com News — Influential rock musician was scheduled to play at SXSW this week.By Gil Kaufman
Alex Chilton
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Cult rock icon Alex Chilton, leade... more info
Rolling Stone — This week the rock world lost Alex Chilton, so we’re devoting our Flashback to covers of Big Star songs by artists ranging from Beck to Wilco to the Bangles, who perfor... more info
Guardian Music — Big Star's singer had an impact far beyond his band's commercial appeal"I am the world's forgotten boy," howled Iggy Pop on "Search and Destroy". But as the years, and th... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — Big Star @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple in November (more by Lori Baily) Alex Chilton, the pop hitmaker, cult icon and Memphis rock iconoclast best known as a member of 1960s ... more info
L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Alex Chilton, who burst out of Memphis in the late 1960s with the Box Tops, singing “The Letter†in the smoke-gravel voice of a grizzled R&B veteran even thou... more info
VH1 News — Cult rock icon Alex Chilton, leader of the influential 1970s power-pop band Big Star, died on Wednesday in a New Orleans hospital at age 59. more info
Popdose — In his latest Infinite Play column, Dave Lifton takes a look at "September Gurls," the power pop masterpiece by the late, great Alex Chilton of Big Star. more info
KNVA TV, Austin TX — Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, who topped the charts as a
teen and later became a cult hero with Big Star, died Wednesday. He
was 59. more info
E! Online — You may not be able to place the name, but you'll definitely recognize the voice.
Mega influential singer and guitarist Alex Chilton has died at the age of 59, after a ... more info
ContactMusic — PRIMAL SCREAM frontman BOBBY GILLESPIE has paid tribute to late BIG STAR rocker ALEX CHILTON - comparing the singer/guitarist's work to the legacy of THE BEATLES.The 59..... more info
Detroit Free Press — NEW ORLEANS -- Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, known for his influential work with bands the Box Tops and Big Star, has died. He was 59. Chilton's longtime friend... more info
The Mirror — 1. As a teenager Chilton formed the Box Tops, and topped the charts with The Letter in 1967. Their other hits included Soul Deep and Cry Like a Baby. more info
Mercury News, California — NEW ORLEANS — Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, who topped the charts as a teen and later became a cult hero with Big Star, died Wednesday. more info
LargeHeartedBoy — RIP, Alex Chilton of Big Star and the Box Tops. Remembrances by Ben Greenman, the Guardian, the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, Arts Beat, Entertainment Weekly, and Greg Kot. ... more info