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Melbourne soul powerhouse WILSN has dropped one final track before her new album Bloom lands on 17 October, and it’s a spicy one. The new single, Big Star, is a playful, tongue-in-cheek dig at an ex who thought he was rock’n’roll royalty – even while still living at home, driving Dad’s car and getting dinner made for him.

Jody Stephens’ and Luther Russell’s Those Pretty Wrongs will return to Australia in August with not only the ‘Holiday Camp’ album to perform from start to finish but also the best of Big Star.

Former Little Birdy singer Katy Steele has premiered the title track to her upcoming album ‘Big Star’.

At some stage in the 70s former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldman signed on to manage Memphis artist Van Duren. He hung with Jody Stephens of Big Star, was tooted as the next Paul McCartney and then … nothing happened.

Chris Bell was a member of Big Star during their short but influential run before recording numerous solo tracks leading up to his death in 1978 in a car accident.

Big Star, arguably one of America’s great power pop bands, will have a new Best Of as part of the roll-out for the Stax 60th Anniversary.

While Chris Bell is known as a founding member of Big Star (and for his posthumous classic song I Am the Cosmos), his story did not begin with that legendary band. Looking Forward: The Roots of Big Star, set for a July 7 release on Omnivore Recordings, features Chris Bell delivering the origins of his incredible, influential and far-too-short career.