10.30pm - I am numb at just reading the very sad news of the sudden death of Alex Chilton at only 59. Chilton was the lead singer for the influential but at the time under-rated Big Star. Big Star pioneered the way in the whole powerpop genre, all harmonies, ringing guitars & simple, sweet pop songs often quite melancholoy in nature. Really at a time when crappy glam rock & interminable prog ruled the world in the early-mid 70's they were out there ploughing their own furrow. I first heard of them in about 1988, in Brighton at one of the clubs frequented at the time by the likes of Alan McGee, Everett True & Bobby Gillespie. In fact I can clearly remember, as if it was yesterday, the first time I heard September Gurls, (at that little dingy, long gone & smokey club up near Churchill Square), sparkle out of the speakers & onto the dancefloor. Those first few chiming chords seemed to stop the world momentarily & I knew my love affair with music would be taking me in whole new directions. RIP Alex - a sad, sad end to the day for sure.
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