On the opening day of South by Southwest (SXSW), San Diego artist Steve Poltz dropped the following tweet: S---! Music legend Alex Chilton dies, age 59. Poltz followed his tweet with lyrics from the ...

Singer and guitarist Alex Chilton, who topped the charts as a teen and later became a cult hero with Big Star, died Wednesday. He was 59. Chilton died at a hospital in New Orleans after experiencing ...

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Any discussion of music legends this year was guaranteed to focus on the late great Alex Chilton, who died this week prior to coming to South by Southwest, where he was scheduled to play. And this ...

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Alex Chilton, 59, who began his four-decade career in pop music as the teenage lead singer of the Box Tops and whose later band Big Star influenced "power pop" bands such as the Replacements and Cheap ...

One of Fallon's guests for the night was Keith Richards, who was there discussing his children's book, and they hung out backstage.