“I Am The Cosmos” by Chris Bell

"I Am the Cosmos" is the title song of the only solo album Chris Bell ever made, a record he produced himself and cut back in the 1970s, after his time in Big Star, but which didn't see daylight until Rykodisc released it in 1992, after his death. Bell wrote it alone, words and music.

The song had its own seven-inch, too, backed with "You and Your Sister", and when Rhino Handmade remastered the album as a two-CD deluxe set in 2009, some copies came with a replica of that original single. Plenty of the songs around it bear the mark of Bell's turn to Christianity. His brother David wrote the booklet notes and took the photographs, the cover among them, shot looking across a Swiss valley near Nendaz.

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