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Brandenburger Toro
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posted 18-03-2010 02:32

 
Alex Chilton died today. I don't know any details.

Alex Chilton changed my life, and I do not know what to do. There's a hole in the world.
 
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posted 18-03-2010 05:20

 
Heart attack at 59.

He was supposed to play at the SXSW festival on Saturday.

His influence, especially through Big Star, on pop music was immense.
 
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posted 18-03-2010 09:29

 
Very shocked to hear this. I only started getting getting into Big Star last year. Kicking myself for not hearing them sooner and seeing them at Hyde Park. Massively influential.
 
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posted 18-03-2010 09:39

 
This Mortal Coil's take on 'Kangaroo', which - along with their cover of 'Holocaust' - introduced a new generation of music lovers to Big Star and Alex Chilton:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYon5LMyU7M
 
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posted 18-03-2010 10:18

 
I'm fairly new to Big Star but on hearing them I instantly went to buy their albums. Very sad news.
 
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posted 18-03-2010 13:23

 
How very, very sad. Farewell Baron of Love.
 
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posted 18-03-2010 14:03

 
All of my heroes are dying. Tom Verlaine and Kevin Shields better watch out...
 
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posted 18-03-2010 14:46

 
you could not make it up ....Teenage Fanclub today announce a 8 date UK tour during May/June 2010
 
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posted 18-03-2010 15:51

 
pishtico pishtico wrote:
you could not make it up ....Teenage Fanclub today announce a 8 date UK tour during May/June 2010
UK and Ireland actually - The Academy in Dublin on May 30th.

The least we can expect is a couple of affectionate Big Star covers.
 
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posted 18-03-2010 17:57

 
Great spot, guff daddy - I'ma have to get me there.

Favourite non-Big Star Alex;

Free Again

The Box-Tops - The Letter (featuring Alex at 16; what a fucking voice...)
 
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posted 18-03-2010 18:08

 
A huge shame. Chilton and Bell were marvellous, marvellous songwriters.
Those failed to be touched by "Thirteen" are pretty souless.
 
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posted 18-03-2010 21:41

 
Like Toro, I feel crushed by this news. I got into Big Star in the early '90s after reading about them relentlessly in the music press. I don't think I'd heard a note of their music when I bought #1 Record, but that's just how things often were back then.

Big Star are inextricably linked to my first girlfriend, and falling in love for the first time, and sitting around for endless hours listening to those beautiful songs together. I hope he found the same kind of happiness in life that I found in his music, but he was such an awkward bugger that it's hard to know what he was feeling. Today has been a very sad day.
 
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posted 19-03-2010 12:49

 
TFC'd up - thanks for the heads-up, g-diddy.
 
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posted 25-03-2010 18:55

 
Westerberg on Chilton
 
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posted 25-03-2010 20:38

 
RIP. I like Big Star but I REALLY like 'Cry Like A Baby'.
 
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