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August 1, 2005

Big Star Travel "Space"

Chilton, Stephens make power pop thirty years later
March 3, 1998

Cerebral Rape and Pillage

Matthew Sweet, the Afghan Whigs, and others pay tribute to Big Star

Recordings and Reviews

Keep an Eye on the Sky

The legend of Big Star was almost over at the starting gate: when co- founding singer-guitarist Chris Bell quit the Memphis pop band, right after its 1972 debut, #1 Record, came out and flopped. The LP — a white-soul Abbey Road with a Lennon-McCartney-like tension between the grainy ennui...

2009 RS: 4.5of 5 Stars

In Space

2005

Big Star Story

2003

Columbia: Live At Missouri University

1993

Third: Sister Lovers

1978

No. 1 Record/Radio City

1972

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Biography

Big Star's combination of Beatles-style melody, Who-like punch, and Byrdsy harmonies defined power pop before the term (or an audience for it) existed. In less than four years, Big Star created a seminal body of work that never stopped inspiring succeeding generations of rockers, from the power-pop revivalists of the late 1970s to alternative rockers at the end of the century to the indie rock nat...

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