September Gurls



"September Gurls" is a song by the rock band Big Star. Written by Alex Chilton, it was featured on the group's second studio album Radio City. The track was released in 1974.



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[hide]  *1 Background  ==Background[edit] == "September Gurls" was also released as a single.[1]  While it never was a big seller, it is considered a classic song by publications such as Rolling Stone and Allmusic.[2] [3]
 * 2 Covers
 * 3 Tributes
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links

The track was rated #178 by Rolling Stone in the magazine's top 500 songs of all time, and is described as a "power pop classic".[2]

Jason Ankeny of Allmusic describes the song as "sweetly gorgeous sound that's both familiar and novel; poignantly ragged and breathlessly reckless..." and says it "reveals a surprising tenderness, tempering its venom with achingly lovely vocals and sun-kissed harmonies".[3] ==Covers[edit] == The Bangles released a cover of this song on their 1986 album Different Light. Other bands who have recorded the song include Superdrag[4]  and The Searchers.[5] ==Tributes<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">The title of Katy Perry's 2010 number one hit "California Gurls" was spelled as a tribute to Chilton and Big Star. Perry's manager is a fan of the band, and asked her to spell "girls" with a "u".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]