Features tagged with Big Star

Andy Pareti pays tribute to the great Big Star singer-songwriter-guitarist Alex Chilton who died unexpectedly earlier this month at the age of 59.

The flagship band on Ardent Records in the early 1970s, Big Star’s image all but drowned in rock and roll’s torrent waters due to ill-fated distribution deals and a failure to get any of the band’s three albums successfully in stores. But those stubborn songs lived on – long enough to be heard by people like Michael Stipe, Paul Westerberg, and Jeff Tweedy, for starters.