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=== "Big Star's ''Third''" shows ===
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Four months after Chilton's death, Hummel died of cancer on July 19, 2010. Asked about the band's plans after the death of Chilton and Hummel, Stephens told ''Billboard'', "It's music we all really love to play, and we love to play it together, so we're trying to figure out a way forward where we can keep doing it."<ref name="hummeldeath" /> In a ''Rolling Stone'' interview, Stephens said that the May 2010 tribute performance would be the group's final show as Big Star, although not his last show with Auer and Stringfellow, stating, "I can't see us going out as Big Star&nbsp;... But I would hate to compound the loss of Alex by saying,'That's it' for Ken and Jon, too. I can't imagine not playing with them. There's so much fun—but an emotional bond there too."<ref name="RS-Stephens" />

In December 2010, under the billing "Big Star's ''Third''", Stephens teamed with [[Mitch Easter]], Stamey, and Mills, along with a string section, to perform a live tribute performance of Big Star's album ''[[Third/Sister Lovers]]'' in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.<ref name="VillageVoice2011" /> Joined by additional performers such as [[Matthew Sweet]], Big Star's ''Third'' was performed in a similar tribute concert in New York City on March 26, 2011,<ref name="VillageVoice2011" /> and at the [[Barbican Centre|Barbican]] in London on May 28, 2012.<ref name="Guardian2012" /> The project continued with concerts in Chicago and New York in 2013, a January 2014 concert in Sydney, Australia, and a series of U.S. shows that included Seattle's [[Bumbershoot]] festival on August 31, 2014.<ref name="BigStarThird2014" /><ref name="BigStarThirdnews" /> In November 2014, Auer and Stringfellow rejoined Stephens, Easter, Stamey, and Mills for a free benefit performance in Athens, Georgia.<ref name="BigStarThirdnews" /> {{As of|2017}}, Big Star's ''Third'' were still performing.<ref name="BigStarThird2017" />

On April 21, 2017, [[Concord Records]] released a Big Star's ''Third'' live concert documentary on two DVDs, along with a three-CD live album, both titled ''Thank You, Friends: Big Star's ''Third'' Live... and More''.<ref name="Kreps2017" /> The concert was performed in April 2016 at [[Glendale, California]]'s [[Alex Theatre]].<ref name="Deming2017" />