Another one gone. RIP Alex Chilton.
They called themselves Big Star and never made it big or found stardom, and there, along with a 2:49 song called “September Gurls” that shimmers and chimes with all the hopeless longing you ever felt for someone you never got to hold or to keep, is the pocket history of power pop.
A good essay on the latest four disc box set from Big Star, “Keep an Eye on the Sky” can be found here.
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