Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Big Star Quintet (Credit: Enric Minguillon) Rock’s history is filled with success stories, both the gradual kind and the so-called ...

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In the early months of 1973, the band that dared to call itself Big Star was anything but. The album of glittering, tightly orchestrated guitar rock they had released the previous year—titled “#1 ...

They were both immensely talented rock bands. They both enjoyed careers that lasted for a chunk of the 1970s. But one band became one of the biggest acts of the era, while the other fell into ...

I suppose I’m nitpicking, because I think every Big Star fan will enjoy Nothing Can Hurt Me. And actually, that almost unconditional adoration for the band—from fans, from critics, from musicians—is a ...