the last book I ever read (33 1/3: Big Star’s Radio City by Bruce Eaton, excerpt three)

from 33 1/3: Big Star’s Radio City by Bruce Eaton:

Alex Chilton’s reluctant to nonexistent relationship with the rock press over the past 30 years can make a noted curmudgeon like Van Morrison seem downright friendly and accessible. In a drawn-out brush-off to writer Barney Hoskyns for a 2004 MOJO article he explained, “A lot of people do their best and still completely misunderstand everything about me, and I’ve just completely had it with cooperating with it or playing along with it in any sense whatsoever.”