R.I.P. Alex Chilton

Box Tops and Big Star guitarist and singer Alex Chilton, deeply influential to scores of musicians, died in New Orleans on Wednesday of an apparent heart attack. Chilton, who was to perform with Big Star this week at SXSW, was 59.

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