Alex Chilton - RIP

[LSL]

Box Tops and Big Star

[Mick Mac]

As a big defender of the right to have an RIP thread - I feel the Chapel of Rest thread may be the place for some deaths.

I have to ask the question - and pardon my ignorance - but who is this person?

[Jah Lush]

A singer/songwriter/musician with the band Big Star, not very succecssful when they came out in the early 70s but very influential to bands such a Teenage Fanclub. I suppose you're going to ask who they are next?

Oh and while I'm at it RIP Charlie Gillett.

[Mick Mac]

Thanks Jah.

I suspect this will not be a long thread, but RIP.

[Jah Lush]

Yeah and when it goes - RIP this thread.

[steveo]

Weird, I was just thinking about Big Star. Tata Alex and Charlie

[SeanMacGabhann]

Luckily I managed to catch their last appearance in london last summer - RIP indeed

[Narnia]

Rest in Peace..........where?

[Jah Lush]

Narnia Wrote:

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> Rest in Peace..........where?

Six foot under.

[TheePope]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Luckily I managed to catch their last appearance

> in london last summer - RIP indeed

Was it any good Sean? I was tempted but thought it might ruin the records for me, same with Roky Ericson who toured last year I think.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Hottest day of the year, they were in a tent and not too many people knew who they were. But yeah they were lovely

[Jah Lush]

Obviously not the original line-up though Sean. His backing band for a long time now has been The Posies who I saw many years ago supporting, yup you guessed it Teenage Fanclub.

[TheePope]

Sounds like I should have made the effort.

The Chris Bell album 'I am the Cosmos', by the other deceased Big Star-er is worth digging out.