In 1969, 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. |