March 2010
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There Was A Life: Alex Chilton dies at only 59
Well, first the Godfather of Soul left us on Christmas day a few years back, and now the Godfather of Droll has passed away on St. Patrick’s Day. One of popular music’s most enduringly insouciant and (at times) infuriatingly contrary and diffident geniuses, singer/songwriter/ guitarist/ keyboardist Alex Chilton of The Box Tops, Big Star, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns and Medium Cool has apparently...