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Afterword

Alex Chilton and the Replacements

By Claire Noland
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Nearly everyone knows ‘The Letter’ by the Box Tops, sung by Alex Chilton, who died Wednesday in New Orleans at age 59, after suffering apparent heart troubles.

But many music fans think of the Minneapolis band the Replacements when they hear ‘Alex Chilton.’ Here’s a video of that song (though when I want to listen to the Replacements -- or just Paul Westerberg -- I go straight to ‘Skyway’ or maybe ‘Waitress in the Sky’).

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Times pop music critic Ann Powers has an appreciation here on the Pop and Hiss blog, and pop music writer Randy Lewis will have a full obituary later at www.latimes.com/obits.

-- Claire Noland

Afterword
Claire Noland

Claire Noland, who joined the Los Angeles Times in 1994, became editor of curated email newsletters in spring 2015. She had been in the Obituary Department since 2006, the last six years as editor. Before that, she was an editor in Sports. A California native and graduate of Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, she worked at the Antelope Valley Press, Los Angeles Daily News and Minneapolis Star Tribune. She left The Times in December 2015.

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