MR ROCK CORONER UPDATE
Alex Chilton, Rock Star, Dies Alex Chilton, the frontman for the 1970s power pop band Big Star, died Wednesday at 59. Big Star, which disbanded in 1974 but regrouped in the early 1990s, was a critically recognized rock group whose music influenced bands such as R.E.M, the Gin Blossoms, and Teenage Fanclub.