[nickcarraway]

The Letter

[dr_who]

He was associated with a grocery store chain?

[mylife]

Holy shit!Alex Chilton dead?

A very talented musician.

RIP

Sorry I never saw him in some lil joint in Memphis.

[mylife]

Prolly my fave Chilton song....FREE AGAIN

[Constitution Day]

Oh man! I’ll have the song by The Replacements in my head all day tomorrow.

RIP Alex.

[bushinohio]

Alex was a mere 16 when he recorded “The Letter”. He doesn't sound like a 16 year old does he? The 60s was such a great decade for music (not so much for politics), too bad fewer and fewer of these people are around anymore.

[HHFi]

Bummer news to read, just as I was returning happy from seeing Ray Davies at the Palladium in Dallas. He dedicated "The Hard Way" from the Kinks' "Schoolboys In Disgrace" LP to Doug Fieger of the Knack, who once covered it, and now he's gone, too. But Ray is as great as ever, still making terrific new music and seems 20 years younger than his age on stage. Beats me how he can seem so young when his contemporary Mick Jagger looks like the Mummy.

BTW, he's really great to his fans. I hung around with the crowd outside and he autographed my copies of "Soap Opera" and "Come Dancing," along with everything everyone else brought, and posed for photos in the cold for 20 minutes. I hope he didn't catch a chill. I want him to live forever.

[abb]

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/mar/17/memphis-musician-alex-chilton-dies/
Memphis music loses ‘Big Star’ — singer, songwriter Alex Chilton dies at 59

[a fool in paradise]

RIP

Maybe the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will recognize him now that he's gone.

[dennisw]

You can mess up yer heart for good with the cocaine you take in your youth. Keith Richards seem immune but others that hung with him destroyed themselves with drugs such as Mick Taylor and Gram Parsons.

Jimmy Miller too who produced the Stones who was half brother of Judith Miller the NY Times reporter who is actually kind of conservative. Their father was Bill Miller a NY and Las Vegas niteclub owner and impresario. Connected guy, Jewish btw.

[SunkenCiv]

His 1970s band Big Star has been way overrated by the Rolling Stone (both albums in the top 100, some ridiculous BS like that), but some nice pop came out of that guy. Condolences.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.