A Man Called Destruction
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| Studio album by Alex Chilton | ||||
| Released | September 12, 1995 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 37:00 | |||
| Label | Ardent | |||
| Producer | Alex Chilton | |||
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A Man Called Destruction is an album by the American pop-rock musician Alex Chilton, released in 1995.
It is also the title of a 2014 biography of Chilton by Holly George-Warren, A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, from Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man.
The album consisted of six songs written by Chilton, and six cover versions including Jan and Dean's "The New Girl in School", which had featured as the B-side to their "Dead Man's Curve" single.
"It's Your Funeral" is based on Frédéric Chopin's marche funèbre which became the 3rd movement of his Piano Sonata No. 2.
Blues musician Howlin' Wolf employed a pianist named William "Destruction" Johnson in the late 1940s, and Chilton's title is a reference to him as well as a play on the title of the Western film A Man Called Horse.
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