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A review by margaret45678
A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man by Holly George-Warren
fast-paced
Pretty well written, with some of the typical music writer corny cliches (ex. referring to authors as "scribes"). The pacing was a bit weird, with the last decade or so of Chilton's life covered in just a few pages, which left me wondering if maybe Chilton's wife at the time of his death refused to be interviewed for the book or something like that (which is fair enough).
There's a lot of name-dropping and I got a bit confused at points; I think it would have been helpful if the author had reintroduced people more often as they came in and out of Chilton's life.
One last nitpick - the recording sessions with Jon Tiven et al, but doesn't mention the band Prix, under whose name (some of?) those recordings were released, nor does Prix's "Historix" appear in the discography at the end.
There's a lot of name-dropping and I got a bit confused at points; I think it would have been helpful if the author had reintroduced people more often as they came in and out of Chilton's life.
One last nitpick - the recording sessions with Jon Tiven et al, but doesn't mention the band Prix, under whose name (some of?) those recordings were released, nor does Prix's "Historix" appear in the discography at the end.