Was just finishing up some stuff at work and ran across this terrible news. Alex Chilton was in the Box Tops, founded Big Star, and had a solo career as well as producing others. He wrote some great songs, and was one of the pioneers of the power pop genre.
One of his great songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNKSs1J38EAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Chilton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Chilton)
that is really sad news, alex and his band big star where and still are a very influental band, they where never very succesful when they where a going concern but probably sold more records years after their demise i would compare them to the velvet underground in that respect