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Big Star Plays Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

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Big Star at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, August 28th 2008. Photo by Dominique Stringfellow.

Memphis legends Big Star (including drummer and Ardent Studio Manager Jody Stephens) recently traveled to England to play a show at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London. From a review by Jennifer Nine:

...But in fact - and here's the thing that makes Big Star gigs as unmissable for their psychological strangeness as for those peerlessly pealing guitars - the only casual observer you ever see, in a room packed with musicians and civilians hungrily staring centre stage, is Alex Chilton himself.

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