Big Star: Third (PVC)
Robot A. Hull, Creem, April 1979
GROWING UP IN Memphis back in '67, I used to get tired of hearing the Box Top's The Letter (#1 hit in the world that year) on the radio every second because DJs felt obligated to reduntantly remind listeners that here, at last, was a hometown band that had hit the Big Time.
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