Alex Chilton may be remembered as the genius behind Big Star but it's worth pointing out that he wasn't the only one. Chris Bell, who left the band after the first album, also made an important contribution to their early sound.
Chris died in a car wreck in 1978 without ever having released an album of his solo material but in 1992 Rykodisc put out a compilation called I Am The Cosmos which, if you're a Big Star fan, you really have no excuse for not owning.
This is a particularly lovely track, an inferior cover of which (by Kim Deal and Tanya Donnelly) appeared on the third This Mortal Coil album.
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