Alex Chilton
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William Alexander "Alex" Chilton (December 28, 1950 – March 17, 2010) was an American songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer, best known as the lead singer of The Box Tops and Big Star. Chilton's early commercial success in the 1960s as a teen vocalist for The Box Tops was never repeated in later years with Big Star and in his subsequent indie music solo career on small labels, but he drew an obsessive following among indie and alternative music musicians. He is frequently cited as a seminal influence by influential rock artists and bands, some of whose testimonials appeared in the 2012 documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me.
Early life and career
Chilton grew up in a musical family; his father, Sidney Chilton, was a jazz musician. A local band recruited the teenager in 1966 as their lead singer after learning of the popularity of his vocal performance at a talent show at Memphis' Central High School; this band was (Ronnie and) the Devilles, later renamed The Box Tops. The new group recorded with Chips Moman and producer/songwriter Dan Penn at American Sound Studio and Muscle Shoals' FAME Studios.
Alex Chilton (song)
"Alex Chilton" is a song by American rock band The Replacements from their fifth studio album Pleased to Meet Me. The song is an homage to Alex Chilton, lead singer of The Box Tops and Big Star.
The song is available as a playable track on the music video game Rock Band 2. Alex Chilton was a guest musician on Pleased to Meet Me, playing guitar on the song "Can't Hardly Wait". The song is also heard in the background of the bachelor party scene in season 1, episode 3 of Psych.
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Alex Chilton
ALBUMS
- 1997-02-13: Electricity by Candlelight, New York City, NY, USA released: 2013
- Live in Anvers released: 2004
- Set released: 2000
- Top 30 released: 1997
- 1970 released: 1996
- Cubist Blues released: 1996
- A Man Called Destruction released: 1995
- Clichés released: 1994
- Like Flies on Sherbert released: 1992
- 19 Years: A Collection of Alex Chilton released: 1991
- Black List released: 1989
- High Priest released: 1987
- Bach's Bottom released: 1981
- Live in London released: 1980
- Like Flies on Sherbert released: 1979
- Beale Street Breakdown/Starcrossed: Tales of Two Cities released:
- Free Again: The "1970" Sessions released:
- Stuff released:
1997-02-13: Electricity by Candlelight, New York City, NY, USA
Released 2013- Last Bouquet
- Step Right This Way
- Let's Get Lost
- D-I-V-O-R-C-E
- Raining in My Heart
- Lovesick Blues
- Girl From Ipanema
- My Baby Just Cares for Me
- Motel Blues
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Footprints in the Snow
- Case of You
- Wouldn't It Be Nice
- Surfer Girl
- Solar System
- I Walk the Line
- If I Had a Hammer
- You Can Bet Your Heart on Me
Beale Street Breakdown/Starcrossed: Tales of Two Cities
- Femme Fatale
- O Dana (Wlyx Memphis, 1975)
- Take Me Home and Make Me Like It
- Jesus Christ
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Kizza Me
- I Will Always Love You
- The Letter
- The Walking Dead
- Holocaust
- Can't Seem to Make You Mine
- Way Out West
- She Might Look My Way
- Night Time
- Lovely Day
- Motel Blues
- Past, Present and Future (New York 1977)
- The Rubber Room
- The Look of Love
- Walk Right Back
- Sure to Fall
- Down the Highway
- Bangkok
Free Again: The "1970" Sessions
- Free Again (original Mono mix)
- Come on Honey
- Something Deep Inside
- I Can Dig It
- The EMI Song (Smile for Me)
- All I Really Want Is Money
- The Happy Song
- Jumpin' Jack Flash
- Every Day as We Grow Closer / Funky National
- I Wish I Could Meet Elvis
- Just to See You
- All We Ever Got From Them Was Pain
- Sugar, Sugar / I Got the Feelin'
- Free Again (Stereo mix with alternate vocal)
- Every Day as We Grow Closer (original Mono mix)
- Come on Honey (original Mono mix)
- The EMI Song (Smile for Me) (original Mono mix)
- All I Really Want Is Money (original Mono mix)
- If You Would Marry Me Babe (demo)
- It Isn't That Easy (demo)
Born: 1950-12-28
Died: 2010-03-17
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ALEX CHILTON
by: The ReplacementsIf he was from Venus, would he feed us with a spoon?
If he was from Mars, wouldn't that be cool?
Standing right on campus, would he stamp us in a file?
Hangin' down in Memphis all the while.
(chorus:)
Children by the million sing for Alex Chilton when he comes 'round
They sing ";I'm in love. What's that song?
I'm in love with that song.";
Cerebral rape and pillage in a village of his choice.
Invisible man who can sing in a visible voice.
Feeling like a hundred bucks, exchanging good lucks face to face.
Checkin' his stash by the trash at St. Mark's place.
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I never travel far, without a little Big Star
Runnin' 'round the house, Mickey Mouse and the Tarot cards.
Falling asleep with a flop pop video on.
If he was from Venus, would he meet us on the moon?
If he died in Memphis, then that'd be cool, babe.
(chorus)
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