Alex Chilton RIP

Unexpectedly of an apparent heart attack at age 59, in the influential rock cult-hero's adopted hometown of New Orleans. The Memphis-bred singer/guitarist/songwriter, teenage leader of pop hitmakers the Box Tops in the late 60's and underground-legend "power pop/alternative" progenitors Big Star in the early 70's prior to his sporadic solo career, was to have played with the revamped Big Star lineup at SXSW in Austin this Saturday.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/mar/17/memphis-musician-alex-chilton-dies/