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February 28, 2000

Alex Chilton Set to Go

Alex Chilton talks about his new album, the Box Tops, Big Star and "That $70 Show"
April 22, 1997

BOX TOPS

House of Blues, West Hollywood, Calif., April 18, 1997
November 20, 1996

BIG STAR/YO LA TENGO/SUPERDRAG/PERFECT

Tramps, New York, Nov. 15, 1996

Set

Alex Chilton's trio knocked out the dozen cover songs of Set in one night; many of them were known to the former leader of the Box Tops and Big Star from his AM-radio childhood. Music this spontaneous can easily turn casual and even lazy - sometimes you can hear Chilton signaling the end of a song t...

2000 RS: 3of 5 Stars

High Priest/Black List

1987

Like Flies on Sherbert

1979

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Biography

Alex Chilton is your basic professional cult legend. Barely ever inspired to work, famously surly, musi-cally brilliant, commercially nonexistent, he's bounced around the edge of the music business for over thirty years, the picture of dapper wastedness. The first phase of his strange career was in the mid-'60s, when as a 16-year-old Memphis boy, Chilton sang the manfully gruff lead vocals on the ...

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