Big Star: No.1 Record
Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 1 February 1973
In the late Sixties, a Memphis teenager named Alex Chilton won moderate fame and fortune as the lead singer for a sometimes inspired, sometimes insipid recording unit known as the Box Tops.
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