ROCK • A • RAMA
His recording career spans three decades, he’s had big hits, thrown away several opportunities for more of the same, and been immortalized by the Replacements in a song that should’ve been a big hit itself. Who is he? Why, none other than Alex Chilton, friend of the Cramps, originator of at least one pop masterpiece (“September Gurls”) and one of rock’s favorite lost causes.
April 1, 1988