Old music: Chris Bell – I Am the Cosmos

It's a heartrending story: a musician labours on in virtual obscurity, dies suddenly – and then achieves critical recognition This is a counterpoint to my post a while back in praise of Big Star's The Ballad of El Goodo. Chris Bell was the co-leader of Big Star alongside Alex Chilton, but was supposedly stifled in the shadow of the more ebullient – and abrasive – Chilton. And so he quit Big Star in 1972 after their first album, and embarked on a solo career which manged a sort of compresse...

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