Alex Chilton
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American musician (1950–2010)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- A man called destruction
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Film & TV
Memphis, Tennessee
Alexander William Chilton was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, best known as the lead singer of the Box Tops and Big Star.
Known for
- Big Star: Live in Memphis — Himself2014
- Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me — Self (archive footage)2013
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1950-12-28
- Active to
- 2010-03-17
Discography
- One Day In New York1978
- Like Flies on Sherbert1979
- Bach's Bottom1980
- High Priest1987
- Black List1989
- Clichés1993
- A Man Called Destruction1995
- Cubist Blues1996
- Loose Shoes and Tight Pussy1999
- Ocean Club '772015
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 121,753
- Total plays
- 1,322,957
Tags
Alex Chilton (Memphis, Tennessee, December 28, 1950 – New Orleans, Louisiana, March 17, 2010) was an American songwriter, guitarist, singer, and producer, best known for his work with the pop-music bands The Box Tops and Big Star. Chilton's early commercial sales success in the 1960s as a teen vocalist for The Box Tops was not repeated in later years with Big Star and in his indie music solo career on small labels like Last Call Records, New Rose <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alex+Chilton">
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alex
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Memphis
- Place of death
- New Orleans
- Occupation
- singer-songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- blue-eyed soul
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Big Star at Hyde Park 2 cropped.jpg
- Work location
- New Orleans
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- date of birth
- 1950-12-28
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Commons category
- Alex Chilton
- date of death
- 2010-03-17
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1966-00-00
- birth name
- William Alexander Chilton
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
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