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Alex Chilton Biography

Alex Chilton is one of the most popular and richest Rock Singer who was born on December 28, 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Influential lead singer of the groups Big Star and The Box Tops. He is known for his major influence on indie and alternative rock groups that followed.

Among his famous fans is R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills, who played in a tribute concert to Chilton in 2010.

Chilton grew up in a musical family; his father, Sidney Chilton, was a jazz musician. A local band recruited the teenaged Chilton in 1966 to be their lead singer after learning of the popularity of his vocal performance at a talent show at Memphis’ Central High School. This band was Ronnie and the Devilles, which was subsequently renamed the Box Tops. The group recorded with Chips Moman and producer/songwriter Dan Penn at American Sound Studio and Muscle Shoals’ FAME Studios.

Chilton was 16 when his first professional recording, the Box Tops’ song “The Letter”, became a number-one international hit. The Box Tops went on to have several other major chart hits, including “Neon Rainbow” (1967), “Cry Like a Baby” (1968), “Choo Choo Train” (1968), “Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March” (1969), and “Soul Deep” (1969). Aside from the hits “The Letter”, “Neon Rainbow”, and “Soul Deep”, all written by Wayne Carson, many of the group’s songs were written by Penn, Moman, Spooner Oldham, and other top area songwriters, with Chilton occasionally contributing a song. By late 1969, only Chilton and guitarist Gary Talley remained from the original group, and newer additions replaced the members who had departed. The group decided to disband and pursue independent careers in February 1970.

He is survived by his wife, Laura, and his son, Timothy.

NameAlex Chilton
First NameAlex
Last NameChilton
OccupationRock Singer
BirthdayDecember 28
Birth Year1950
Place of BirthMemphis
Home TownTennessee
Birth CountryUnited States
Birth SignCapricorn
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After a period in New York City, during which Chilton worked on his guitar technique and singing style (some of which was believed to have been influenced by a chance meeting with Roger McGuinn at a friend’s apartment in New York where Chilton was impressed with McGuinn’s singing and playing), Chilton returned to Memphis in 1971 and co-founded the power pop group Big Star, with Chris Bell, recording at engineer John Fry’s Ardent Studios. Chilton and Bell co-wrote “In the Street” for Big Star’s first album #1 Record, a track later covered by Cheap Trick and used as the theme song of That ’70s Show.

Alex Chilton Net Worth

Alex Chilton is one of the richest Rock Singer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alex Chilton's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was recruited by a local band in 1966 after the rapturous reception to his performance at Memphis’ Central High School’s talent show.

His song In the Street was covered by Cheap Trick and used as the theme song for the sitcom That 70’s Show.

William Alexander Chilton (December 28, 1950 – March 17, 2010) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, best known as the lead singer of the Box Tops and Big Star. Chilton’s early commercial success in the 1960s as a teen vocalist for the Box Tops was never repeated in later years with Big Star and in his subsequent indie music solo career on small labels, but he drew an intense following among indie and alternative music musicians. He is frequently cited as a seminal influence by influential rock artists and bands, some of whose testimonials appeared in the 2012 documentary Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me.

Net Worth$5 Million
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HouseLiving in own house.

The group’s recordings met with little commercial success but established Chilton’s reputation as a rock singer and songwriter; later alternative music bands like R.E.M. and the Posies would praise the group as a major influence. During this period he also occasionally recorded with Rosebrough as a group they called the Dolby Fuckers; some of their studio experimentation was included on Big Star’s album Radio City, including the recording of “Mod Lang”. Rosebrough would occasionally work with Chilton on later recordings, including Big Star’s Third album and Chilton’s 1975 solo record Bach’s Bottom.

Moving back to New York in 1977, Chilton performed as “Alex Chilton and the Cossacks” with a lineup that included Chris Stamey (later of the dB’s) and Richard Lloyd of Television at venues like CBGB, releasing an influential solo single, “Bangkok” (with a cover of the Seeds’ “Can’t Seem to Make You Mine” as the B-side), in 1978. This period learning from the New York CBGB scene marked the beginning of a key change for Chilton’s personal musical interests away from multi-layered pop studio recording standards toward an animated punk and traditional pop-influenced performance style often recorded in one take and featuring few overdubs. There he made the acquaintance of the Cramps, a formative psychobilly ensemble. He brought them to Memphis, to where he had moved back in April 1978, where he produced the songs that would appear on their Gravest Hits EP and their Songs the Lord Taught Us LP.

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After deciding against enrolling as a student at Memphis State University, Chilton began performing as a solo artist, maintaining a working relationship with Penn for demos. During this period he began learning guitar by studying the styles of guitarists like Stax Records great Steve Cropper. Chilton began recording his own solo material in the fall of 1969 at Ardent Studios with local musicians including producer Terry Manning (who had worked with Chilton as an engineer on the Box Tops’ recordings) and drummer Richard Rosebrough, and producing a few local blues-rock acts. His 1969-1970 recordings and productions from that time frame were released years later in the 1980s and 1990s on albums like Lost Decade (New Rose Records) and 1970 (Ardent Records).

Touring and recording as a solo artist from the late 1980s through the 1990s with bassists Mike Maffei, John S. McClure (later to become a professor of divinity at Vanderbilt University), and Ron Easley, and with drummers Doug Garrison and, from 1993 on, Richard Dworkin (who also played for many years with the jazz group the Microscopic Septet), Chilton gained a reputation for his eclectic taste in song covers, guitar work, and laconic stage presence. Writing about a live performance in The New York Times, critic Peter Watrous said of Chilton that “he’s a soul and blues guitar connoisseur; he chooses his guitar licks as carefully as he does the blues songs he covers, and during his solos, a listener heard a history of soul and blues guitar.” Watrous went on to say of the show that “irony flowed over everything, and it was hard to tell exactly what Mr. Chilton was after, except perhaps a little fun.”

Who is Alex Chilton Dating?

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In 1979, Chilton released, in a limited edition of 500 copies, the album Like Flies on Sherbert. Produced by Chilton with Jim Dickinson at Phillips Recording and Ardent Studios, it features his own interpretations of songs by artists as disparate as the Carter Family, Jimmy C. Newman, Ernest Tubb, and KC and the Sunshine Band, along with several originals. While criticized by some as a druggy mess, this album is considered by many to be a lo-fi masterpiece. Sherbert—which included backing work from such notable Memphis musicians as Rosebrough, drummer Ross Johnson, and Chilton’s longtime on-again/off-again companion, Lesa Aldridge—has since been reissued several times. Beginning in 1979 Chilton also co-founded, played guitar with, and produced some albums for Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, which began as an offbeat rock-and-roll group deconstructing blues, country, and rockabilly music.

Top Facts about Alex Chilton

  • Alex Chilton was born on December 28, 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee.
  • He rose to fame as the lead singer of The Box Tops.
  • The Box Tops’ hit song “The Letter” topped the charts in 1967.
  • Chilton later formed the influential band Big Star in 1971.
  • Big Star’s debut album “No. 1 Record” received critical acclaim but poor sales.
  • Despite limited commercial success, Big Star’s influence on rock music is significant.
  • Chilton continued to release solo albums throughout his career.
  • He produced records for other artists including The Cramps and Tav Falco.
  • Chilton died on March 17, 2010 at age 59 from a heart attack.
  • His legacy continues to inspire musicians today.
  • Facts & Trivia

    Alex Ranked on the list of most popular Rock Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Alex Chilton celebrates birthday on December 28 of every year.

    Chilton followed up High Priest with Black List, his third EP in four years (and his first recording since his mid-1980s career relaunch not to get a U.S. release). Black List continued to display his eclecticism, containing covers of Ronny & the Daytonas’ “Little GTO”, Furry Lewis’s “I Will Turn Your Money Green”, and Charlie Rich’s country-pop arrangement of Frank Sinatra’s “Nice and Easy”. The EP also included three original songs. Chilton also produced albums by several artists beginning in the 1980s, including the Detroit group the Gories, and continued producing Panther Burns albums well into the 1990s.

    Is Alex Chilton still alive?

    March 17, 2010

    Was Alex Chilton Big Star?

    Big Star was an American rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1971 by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, and Andy Hummel. The group broke up in early 1975, and reorganized with a new lineup 18 years later following a reunion concert at the University of Missouri.

    How old was Alex Chilton in the Box Tops?

    59 years (1950–2010)

    What happened to the members of the Box Tops?

    Each of the original members went on to work in the music industry in subsequent years after leaving the Box Tops. Chilton’s career path included work performing with Big Star, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns, and his solo trio, as well as briefly producing groups like The Cramps.

    Where do you take Alex in GTA 4?

    Her favorite visiting locations include Split Sides comedy club and the Perestroika cabaret club in Broker.

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