# Big Star news!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-star-news/314453>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 27, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-star-news/314453 "2005-07-27T19:48:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-star-news/314453/1 "2005-07-27T19:48:46Z")

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> Revived Seventies pop rockers BIG STAR – with original members ALEX CHILTON and JODY STEPHENS, and POSIES mainstays JON AUER and KEN STRINGFELLOW – will release “In Space,” their first album since they disbanded in 1975, on September 27th

Cool! Hope they have some gas left in the tank!

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**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-star-news/314453/2 "2005-07-27T19:50:37Z")

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They can call it whatever they want, but without Chris Bell it’s not Big Star.  
But I’ll probably end up buying it anyway.

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-star-news/314453/3 "2005-07-27T19:56:03Z")

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> [@Sean Factotum](#):
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> They can call it whatever they want, but without Chris Bell it’s not Big Star.  
> But I’ll probably end up buying it anyway.

I hear you - but Radio City - which Bell helped write a bunch of songs and performed on a few - was mostly Chilton’s work, IIRC and it was wonderful…

Do you have Bell’s I Am the Cosmos? Interesting and worth owning…

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**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-star-news/314453/4 "2005-07-27T20:28:09Z")

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> [@WordMan](#):
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> Do you have Bell’s I Am the Cosmos? Interesting and worth owning…

… which is why I own it. Not for everyday listening, but definitely worth having.

Like I said, I’ll probably end up getting this one too. The first CD I bought was an Alex Chilton release.

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**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/big-star-news/314453/5 "2005-07-27T20:37:54Z")

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> [@Sean Factotum](#):
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> They can call it whatever they want, but without Chris Bell it’s not Big Star.  
> But I’ll probably end up buying it anyway.

Amen, brother. I mean that for both sentences in the above post.