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4 unusual facts about Alex Chilton


Big Star Markets

Alex Chilton and Chris Bell named their Memphis rock band of the same name after the supermarket chain.

Charlie Feathers

These later albums of original songs penned by Feathers were released on the French label New Rose Records, whose other 1980s releases included albums by cult music heroes like Johnny Thunders, Alex Chilton, Roky Erickson, The Cramps, The Gun Club, and others.

Easley McCain Recording

During this period, bands such as Tav Falco's Panther Burns came in to record; Alex Chilton produced an album for a Detroit group called The Gories the last year the studio was located in Easley's garage.

Willie Tee

Alex Chilton also recorded a version of "Thank You John" in the 1980s, and Russell Minus completed a suite of elegies in 1996.


Columbia: Live at Missouri University

Columbia: Live at Missouri University 4/25/93, is a reunion live album by American power pop group Big Star recorded and released in 1993 by original Big Star members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens together with The Posies members Jonathan Auer and Ken Stringfellow.

Duglas T. Stewart

Stewart has produced recordings for artists including Alex Chilton, Chip Taylor, Stevie Jackson, Eugene Kelly, Ally Kerr and Norman Blake.

Gravest Hits

Gravest Hits is the debut 12" EP by the American garage punk band The Cramps, compiling both sides of their first two 1978 Vengeance singles, "Surfin' Bird" and "Human Fly," and adding a fifth track, a cover of "Lonesome Town". It was released in July 1979 on Illegal Records and I.R.S. Records. The tracks were all produced by Alex Chilton and recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis in 1977. It featured liner notes by "Dr.

I Was a Teenage Zombie

Other bands and artists appearing on the film's soundtrack include: The Del Fuegos, The dB's, Dream Syndicate, the Violent Femmes, The Waitresses, The Smithereens, Los Lobos, Alex Chilton and the Ben Vaughn Group.

The Blizzard of 78

cn Tanya Donelly contributed a guest vocal to the album, and it won several Motif Magazine awards in 2007.cn The Blizzard of 78 have played with, or opened for, Coldplay, Alex Chilton, Ronnie Spector, Snow Patrol, Jim Carroll, Tanya Donelly, Guster, Remy Zero and Throwing Muses.


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