OffBeat Magazine is celebrating 30 years and will reach that milestone with our November 2017 edition. To mark the anniversary, over the next 12 months OffBeat will re-publish excerpts from features and interviews from the past 30 years.

From our May 1995 edition, Keith Spera, then OffBeat editor, interviews local resident and singer-songwriter Alex Chilton:

TO LEGIONS OF POP GUITAR BANDS, ALEX CHILTON IS INDEED A KIND OF FIRST MAN.  He initially gaine...