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Archive Home > 2010 > March > 20 > Alex Chilton, 59, led Box Tops, Big Star

Alex Chilton, 59, led Box Tops, Big Star

By Randy Lewis / The Bulletin
March 20, 2010

Alex Chilton, the mercurial leader of the Box Tops and Big Star who burst from the Memphis, Tenn., music scene in 1967 singing “The Letter” in the smoke-gravel voice of a grizzled soul man even though he was just 16 at the time, has died. He was 59.

Chilton was pronounced dead in the emergency....

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