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A song harkening back to the naïvete and mixed innocence of budding pubescence.

It is track 4 on Big Star’s debut album, #1 Record. Though it was never released as a single, the song has been covered by Elliott Smith, Wilco, and Garbage, amongst many others. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked this song #406 out of it’s Top 500 Songs Of All Time, calling it “one of rock’s most beautiful celebrations of adolescence.”

It is featured in the 2016 movie Handsome Devil.

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Lead Vocals
Harmony Vocals
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Lacquer Cutting
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Recorded At
Ardent Studios - Memphis, TN
Release Date
June 1972
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