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Tributes for Alex Chilton planned in Memphis

By Claire Noland

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When Alex Chilton, the lead singer for the Box Tops and Big Star, died suddenly on March 17, the surviving members of Big Star dedicated their appearance at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, to him.

Now a memorial service is planned for Tuesday in Memphis, with a tribute concert set for May 15 at the city’s Levitt Shell in Overton Park. Chilton died in New Orleans, but he was from Memphis.

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Click here for more details in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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