Chuck Berry Dies Aged 90

[Colin B]

R.I.P. Chuck Berry

Rock 'n' roll pioneer Chuck Berry has died aged 90.

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The original rock 'n' roll singer-songwriter penned & sang many well known hits including Maybellene, Promised Land, School Day,
Too Much Monkey Business, Sweet Little Sixteen, & Johnny B Goode.

[Brian]

Chuck Berry was a pioneer of rock 'n' roll and a truly great original. I saw him many time on stage in the early seventies and occasionally later on. He never disappointed his audience. His rock 'n' roll guitar riffs are famous with musicians throughout the world and he will be sadly missed but always remembered.

R.I.P. Chuck.

Brian

[John]

This is a sad one. I don't think he's been well for a while. R.I.P. Chuck.

[John]

In memory of Chuck.I think he was fabulous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpitvLeNjuE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLV4NGpoy_E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jKrHzps0XM

[Scooby]

Arguably the founder of Rock & Roll, Chuck Berry has died at the age 90. He had some really good records from the 1950s, but interestingly he only scored one #1 hit on the billboard charts, My Ding-A-Ling in 1972. In fact, three historical music icons were in the top 10 at the same time that year. Berry, Elvis and Michael Jackson as a solo artist.

RIP, Mr.Johnny B. Goode.

NB: This post was in a new thread so I've merged it with the pre-existing one - CB

[Delboy]

R.I.P. Chuck Berry. One of the greats.

[Gerinimo]

Rock's first and greatest poet!

Nadine.
"She moved around like a wave of summer breeze"

"And I was campaign shouting like a southern diplomat"

As far as i'm concerned ' Too much monkey business' is the first rap record, even though rap originated on street corners, just people airing their grievances. Dylan and the likes get the credit but Chuck wrote the book when it came to writing the songs.

Rock 'n' Roll heaven is filling up, he had good innings, his music will never die.

[Matt Helm]

MISTER ROCK AND ROLL! One of the Best, what a loss, saw him in the 80's live on stage and i was blowing away...his words in his music was unique, perfect lyrics and beautiful rockin tunes, i adore him. On the other side....he was never "the buddy", he had a very dark side, but so what. Respect for one of the Best who influnces the Beatles and the Stones. HAIL HAIL ROCK 'N' ROLL, JOHNNY B. GOODE 4ever, Matt

[Steve]

Very sad loss.
R.I.P Chuck.

[WalterHaleJnr]

R.I.P Chuck Berry. The Real King of Rock n Roll Music.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/arts ... .html?_r=0

[WalterHaleJnr]

This record is shades of Maybelline, I thought

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FoWxfqTDwo

[WalterHaleJnr]

Cool rendition of a Frank Sinatra song -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQOobmqPmCs

[WalterHaleJnr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq8uJjrNONA

[WalterHaleJnr]

Found this article on MUSIC AFICIONADO


"CHUCK BERRY is a difficult man."

"Towards the end of the recently-released Berry documentary film Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, Keith Richards is seen slumped in a chair, exhausted and exasperated. For the previous two weeks he has been rehearsing with Berry for Berry's 60th birthday concert at the Fox Theater, St Louis; he has endured the petulant outbursts of the legend when anyone so much as dares touch the great man's amplifier; he has engaged in heated debate about how the introductory guitar figure in Carol really goes; he has bashed all those old songs – Rock And Roll Music, Roll Over Beethoven, Johnny B. Goode, Nadine, No Particular Place To Go – into something approaching tight arrangements with scant cooperation from the grand old man himself.

And then on the big night what happens? Berry willfully screws up Richards' labours by changing keys and altering arrangements as he sees fit, by throwing in bursts of unscheduled and singularly rotten guitar playing, and by acting the mischievous and awkward "showman" the world has come to expect. It's almost as if Keith Richards cares more about Chuck Berry's music than Chuck Berry does and Keith is drained, all patience gone. Chuck, says Keith, has given him more headaches in a fortnight than Mick Jagger did during the entire Rolling Stones lifetime. Nonetheless, he adds with a fatigued smile of resignation, he cannot help liking the man…"

https://web.musicaficionado.com/main.ht ... n=fbberry2

[WalterHaleJnr]

Jane Pauley interviewed Chuck in 1977. Berry gives credit to Little Richard, Fats Domino and Travis Presley !
Great anecdote on the origins of his 'duckwalk' motion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoUaWuksp88