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Alex Chilton: 19 Years: A Collection of Alex Chilton (Rhino)
Review by Tom Graves, Rock and Roll Disc, April 1991
IF ANY ONE PERSON is emblematic of the musical malaise of rock's cutting edge during the 1980s, it would have to be cult factotum Alex Chilton, ...

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Alex Chilton: The Big Star of New York's Underground
Report by Mitchell Cohen, Phonograph Record, June 1977
CHAPTER THREE in the adventures of a bona-fide, under-acknowledged rock hero is currently in progress. At the moment, the story is mostly taking place in the ...

Alex Chilton: Getting The Cramps Between The Box Tops And Big Stardom
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, December 1977
ANY SELF-RESPECTING cultural elitist should know who Alex Chilton is, as should all hopeless old bozos still lingering on from the 60s. To recap for the ...

Alex Chilton: Like Flies On Sherbert (Aura) ****
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, February 1980
ABSOLUTELY ONE of a kind, because, while archivists insist they wish that Jimbo was still here or that Syd would make another album, Alex Chilton is ...

Feudalist Star: Alex Chilton
Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, June 1985
AFTER YEARS of maintaining a low musical profile, southern pop cult hero Alex Chilton's star may be on the rise ...

Alex Chilton: London, Mean Fiddler
Live Review by Simon Witter, NME, October 1985
ALEX CHILTON – one-time Box Top, Big Star, Cramps producer, etc. – is possibly rock’s greatest cult hero. Like many, I’ve been aware of this legendary ...

Alex Chilton: Feudalist Tarts
Review by Martin Aston, Melody Maker, Summer 1985
LIFE has gone full circle for Alex Chilton. Seventeen years old in 1967, up to New York City from hometown Memphis where he fronted the Box ...

The Man Who Preferred Not To: Alex Chilton
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, The Dig (Japan), November 1999
IF EVERYONE who heard the Velvet Underground in the ’60s formed a band – so the joke goes – then everyone who heard Big Star in ...

Wayward Sons: The Ballad of Big Star
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Mojo, February 2000
THE SUN is going down on Memphis, site of rock’n’roll’s immaculate conception and explosive birth. On a warm spring evening, the Mississippi’s purplish-brown waters are swirling ...

The Glory and Grandeur That Is Defeat: The Music of Alex Chilton
Special Feature by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2004
I. Entrance: On the Slopes of ...

The Glory and Grandeur That Is Defeat: The Music of Alex Chilton, Part 2
Retrospective by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2004
IF THE FIRST ALBUM is soulful and unconscious, the second develops a narrator and player who find new voices, taking on consciousness, memory, and loss. The ...

see also Big Star

see also Box Tops, The