This is a counterpoint to my post a while back in praise of Big Star's The Ballad of El Goodo. Chris Bell was the co-leader of Big Star alongside Alex Chilton, but was supposedly stifled in the shadow ...

Beck has shared his acoustic cover of Chris Bell’s ‘I Am The Cosmos’ — watch his self-isolation rendition of the track below. The Bell cover makes Beck the latest big-name musician to start recording ...

“Children by the millions/Worship Alex Chilton,” so goes the Replacements song, but only thousands know about Chris Bell, his bandmate in Big Star‘s first incarnation. Bell helped shape Big Star… By ...

In 1974 and 1975, the late Big Star co-leader Chris Bell recorded a solo album that didn't come out until long after his death. The 27-year-old Bell died in a 1978 car crash, and his only solo album I ...