Bruce Eaton’s book length essay about Big Star’s second
album Radio City for the 33 1/3 series seems to have placed accuracy above all
in the story of this recording. It is mostly transcriptions of interviews with
band members and the engineering staff at Ardent Studios about how the
recording was made. I think it would have been more compelling if these
interviews had been paraphrased and put into a more coherent narrative. I was
also missing insight/analysis of the songs. The author claims to have read everything
written about Big Star yet he makes no references to any other printed
material. The book doesn’t really come alive until the end where the author
recounts how he ended up playing with Alex Chilton after Big Star broke up.
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