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`Hail' celebrates power of Chuck Berry's music
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Chuck Berry Hail! Hail!
Rock 'n' Roll!'
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Featuring Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray,
Etta James, Johnnie Johnson, Julian Lennon and Linda Ronstadt.
Universal presents a film directed by Taylor Hackford, and produced
by Stephanie Bennett and Berry. Music produced by Richards.
Photographed by Oliver Stapleton and Ed Lachman. Running time: 120
minutes. Classified PG. At local theaters.
I expected "Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll!" ...
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Berry just couldn't be good. ..
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Chuck Berry's Rock of Ages;With a New Book and a Movie, the Back Beat Goes On
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; Just let me hear some of that rock 'n' roll music Any old way you choose it It's got a back beat you can't lose it Any old time you use it It's gotta be rock-roll music If you wanna dance with me Chuck Berry is between flights, between his home town of St. Louis and Barcelona, where he will rock,
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The Scotsman
; 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
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Chuck Berry proves rock knows no age.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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Behind the legend DVD release of Berry tribute 'Hail, Hail' sheds light on complicated artist
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