The No. 1 song on September 27, 1967, was by the Box Tops, and not only was the singer only 16, the track also included the ...

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This song topped the Billboard Hot 100.

Big Star should have been famous. The Memphis group wrote power pop that foreshadowed alternative rock. The bands they inspired are some of the most successful in history. Bell left the band a bit ...

Alex Chilton, who died of heart-related problems Wednesday night, was mourned across the alternative rock world on Thursday. By Billboard Staff Guitarist Alex Chilton, who died of heart-related ...

Alex Chilton, the singer and guitarist who helmed two popular Memphis-based bands, the soul-pop Box Tops and power pop pioneers Big Star, died today (March 17) of a suspected heart attack in New ...

Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, known for his influential work with bands the Box Tops and Big Star, has died. He was 59. By Associated Press Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, known for his ...

In 1967, a teenage Alex Chilton recorded a song that would hit the top of the charts with his band The Box Tops, and at the time, it made him a young music icon. The hit, entitled "The Letter," ...

The late Alex Chilton was one of the most enigmatic figures in pop music. From his gruff, teenage vocals on the hit "The Letter" to the pop masterpieces of Big Star to his production work with The ...

Alex Chilton, whose ’60s fame as lead vocalist for the hit-making pop band the Box Tops was succeeded by leadership of the massively influential ’70s group Big Star, died Wednesday in New Orleans of ...

I had already absorbed the Big Star albums and Sherbert as part of the same meal—#1 Record and Radio City had been reissued as a double LP in 1978, Third had seen the light of day the same year, and ...

Celebrity history is filled with people who are victims of their own success. Rock and roll history has produced a curious corollary: musicians who fall victim to their own legends. Alex Chilton is ...