Alex Chilton: RIP
Last night, drunk off our ass at the Tam O’Shanter, we got a strange and melancholy text from a good friend.
“Alex Chilton died today. So lucky to have met him a million years ago. Gracious, weird and brilliant. A hero of mine. Sadness.”
This morning we woke up from our hangover and saw the news was true. The wildly underappreciated brains behind the band Big Star was dead of an apparent heart attack at 59.
Mark Ames at eXiledonline has by far the most interesting (and depressing) obit we’ve
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