Memphis music loses ‘Big Star’ - singer, songwriter Alex Chilton dies at 59 (Memphis Commercial Appeal)

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Posted on Mar. 17th, 2010 by WeSmirch

Memphis Commercial Appeal:
Memphis music loses ‘Big Star’ — singer, songwriter Alex Chilton dies at 59 — Alex Chilton, the pop hitmaker, cult icon and Memphis rock iconoclast best known as a member of 1960s pop-soul act the Box Tops and the 1970s power-pop act Big Star, died Wednesday at a hospital in New Orleans.

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