In 1969, Alex Chilton, the former lead singer of the chart-topping Box Tops entered Ardent Studios in Memphis to make an album. He was a couple of years away from forming Big Star, but these, his first solo recordings - eventually released in the 1990s as 1970 - display the same skills and idiosyncrasies that would characterise his career right up until his untimely death in 2010. The album, originally slated for either the Atlantic label or the Beach Boys' Brother Records, features a diverse range of mostly original material by Chilton, including the commercial 'Free Again', the proto-Big Star sound of 'Something Deep Inside,' and the sublime ballads 'Every Day As We Grow Closer' and 'The EMI Song'. Big Beat's new expanded edition of1970 features both unreleased period mono mixes, and fresh remixes done at Ardent Studios, and it also adds three previously unissued songs including the fragile outtake 'All We Ever Got From Them Was Pain'.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Free Again (Original Mono Mix)
2. Come On Honey
3. Something Deep Inside
4. I Can Dig It
5. The Emi Song (Smile For Me)
6. All I Really Want Is Money
7. The Happy Song
8. Jumpin' Jack Flash
9. Every Day As We Grow Closer / Funky National
10. I Wish I Could Meet Elvis
11. Just To See You
12. All We Ever Got From Them Was Pain
13. Sugar, Sugar / I Got The Feelin'
14. Free Again (Stereo Mix With Alternate Vocal)
15. Every Day As We Grow Closer (Original Mono Mix)
16. Come On Honey (Original Mono Mix)
17. The Emi Song (Smile For Me) (Original Mono Mix)
18. All I Really Want Is Money (Original Mono Mix)
19. If You Would Marry Me Babe (Demo)
20. It Isn't Always That Easy (Demo)