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Flies on Shit: Alex Chilton Goes Back to Memphis

Holly George-Warren, Viking Books, March 2014

The former Big Star man sees the Sex Pistols in Memphis and limbers up for the shambolic Like Flies On Sherbert. An exclusive excerpt from Holly George-Warren's brand-new biography A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton from Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man. Reprinted by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC. 

Total word count of piece: 1390

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