Alex Chilton, the former lead singer of the chart-topping box tops entered ardent studios in Memphis to make an album. He was a couple of years away from forming big star, but these, his first solo recordings - eventually released in the 1990s as 1970 - display the same skills and idiosyncrasies that would characterise his career right up until his untimely death in 2010.
The album, originally slated for either the Atlantic label or the Beach Boys' Brother Records, features a diverse range of mostly original material by Chilton, including the commercial "Free Again", the proto-Big Star sound of "Something Deep Inside", and the sublime ballads "Every Say As We Grow Closer" and "The EMI Song".
Alex Chilton, the former lead singer of the chart-topping box tops entered ardent studios in Memphis to make an album. He was a couple of years away from forming big star, but these, his first solo recordings - eventually released in the 1990s as 1970 - display the same skills and idiosyncrasies that would characterise his career right up until his untimely death in 2010.
The album, originally slated for either the Atlantic label or the Beach Boys' Brother Records, features a diverse range of mostly original material by Chilton, including the commercial "Free Again", the proto-Big Star sound of "Something Deep Inside", and the sublime ballads "Every Say As We Grow Closer" and "The EMI Song".