Alex Chilton: High Priest (Big Time)
Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 3 December 1987
NO DOUBT about it, Alex Chilton is really hip right now, with bands like R.E.M., the Replacements and the Bangles citing his legendary early-Seventies group Big Star as a major influence, dropping his name right and left, even naming songs after him. High Priest, indeed. But while these young whipper-snappers have taken his antislick philosophy all the way to the bank, guru Chilton hasn't, despite a fanatically loyal cult following.
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