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Reviews: Chuck Berry
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Music: CHUCK BERRY ****
PLAYHOUSE, EDINBURGH
ACCORDING to the record industry, rock and roll is 50 years old
next week. But Chuck Berry is 77 and so irrepressible that he
probably learned to rock and roll before he could duck walk. The man
who inspired the Beatles and the Stones commands the utmost respect
but, as the Playhouse audience discovered, he just wanted to repay us
with a party.
A dapper MC asserted: "The closer you get to the source, the
stronger it becomes." Well said, and even more eloquently expressed
by Berry himself when he struck the opening riff of Roll Over
Beethoven. His ...
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