Chris Bell

Christopher Branford "Chris" Bell (January 12, 1951 – December 27, 1978) was an  American  singer,  songwriter and  guitarist born in  Memphis,  Tennessee. Along with  Alex Chilton, he led the  power pop band  Big Star, which recorded albums during the early 1970s. Bell left the group after Big Star's first album,  #1 Record (1972), failed to find commercial success. Bell recorded as a solo artist for the remainder of the 1970s; two of these influential solo recordings, " I Am the Cosmos" and " You and Your Sister", were released on a 1978 single on  Car Records. These two songs became popular among collectors of Big Star-related items, and were later included on Bell's posthumously released 1992 solo album  I Am the Cosmos.