
Big Star with Rob Sheffield
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The Revisionist History of a Lost Youth
Alex Chilton started becoming a working musician at 15. He's saying everything that I was doing for a living on the road 200 nights a year when I was in the box tops, he says. There's that sort of Whistfulness for a lost youth that you know even coming to the song without knowing anything about About who wrote it where it comes from. You can hear that this is somebody's ache for a 13 that was very far removed from their 13 s Let's face it. We're all just trying to live our lives and have fun with each other as much as we can"
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