Artist
Big Star
Big Star is a pop-rock artist from Memphis, Tennessee, USA formed in 1971. 15 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop-Rock · Memphis, Tennessee, USA · Best pop-rock albums
- 15
- Releases
- 1972–2018
- Active years
- 1971
- Formed
Artist
Big Star is a pop-rock artist from Memphis, Tennessee, USA formed in 1971. 15 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop-Rock · Memphis, Tennessee, USA · Best pop-rock albums
Most popular
Radio City
1974 · 12 tracks
#1 Record
1972
Live In Memphis
2014
Live At Lafayette's Music Room
2018
The Best Of Big Star
2017
Third
2016
Live on WLIR
2016
Complete Third
2016
Complete Columbia: Live at University of Missouri 4/25/93
2016
Nothing Can Hurt Me
2013
Keep An Eye On The Sky
2009
In Space
2005
#1 Record / Radio City
1990
Third/Sister Lovers
1978
Big Star was an American rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1971 by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens and Andy Hummel. The group broke up in 1974, but reorganized with a new line-up nearly 20 years later. In its first era, the band's musical style drew on the vocal harmonies of The Beatles, as well as the swaggering rhythms of The Rolling Stones and the jangling guitars of The Byrds. To the resulting power pop, Big Star added dark, existential themes, and produced a style that foreshadowed the alternative rock of the 1980s and 1990s. Before it broke up, Big Star created a "seminal body of work that never stopped inspiring succeeding generations" in the words of Rolling Stone, as the "quintessential American power pop band" and "one of the most mythic and influential cult acts in all of rock & roll". Big Star's first album—1972's #1 Record—was met by enthusiastic reviews, but ineffective marketing by Stax Records and limited distribution stunted its commercial success. Frustration took its toll on band relations, and by the time a second album was completed in 1974 both Bell and Hummel had left the group. Like #1 Record, Radio City received excellent reviews, but labe…
