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Big Star has been one of my alltime favorite bands now for 20+ years. The combination of their bittersweet powerpop, on the verge of falling apart, plus their relative obscurity/cult status and the influence they exerted on bands like R.E.M., the Replacements, and countless others make them like the Holy Grail source of so much that happened later. And the driving force in Big Star was singer,