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Hail, hail Chuck Berry
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NEW YORK "This is gonna make you laugh," said Chuck Berry, laughing
himself, slapping my knee for emphasis. We were sitting amid the
understated luxury of the lounge of New York's Mayfair Regent Hotel.
Despite his reputation for being bitter, difficult, Berry laughs
easily and often, his eyes flashing, twinkling. His exuberance
elicited occasional sharp glances from some of the lounge's other
patrons; the Mayfair Regent is not a rock 'n' roll hotel.
I had asked Berry something a...
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Chuck Berry's Rock of Ages;With a New Book and a Movie, the Back Beat Goes On
The Washington Post
; ... again, Berry has toured the world with his rock 'n' roll liturgy, playing the same hits to ever-changing audiences. It's old news that he travels alone, just a man and his guitar, and performs with pickup bands and without any rehearsal beyond the admonition-usual ...
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`Hail! Hail!': Goode Times With Berry
The Washington Post
; At two hours, Taylor Hackford's "Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll" is as long and unwieldy as its title, but it's probably the most revealing look we'll ever get of its subject, and the most loving evocation of his music. It's a mix of rehearsal and performance footage, "You Are There"
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Chuck Berry, Not About To Roll Over
The Washington Post
; "And that's the way we ended it in 1954," said Chuck Berry as he brought "Around and Around," one of his early hits, to a spluttering finish. The crowd at the 9:30 club on Friday night seemed almost stupefied by the date. Did he just say 1954? "My mother wasn't born in 1954," one attendee muttered
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`Hail' celebrates power of Chuck Berry's music
Chicago Sun-Times
; Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll!' (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) 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.
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Hail! Hail! St. Louis and its rock `n' roll legend, Chuck Berry.
Kansas City Star
; ... an attendant organizes the group and makes sure the rules are known. Berry will give only one signature to each person. This news causes some worried fans to seek out friends to get in line with additional items. Some fans discuss whether they are brave enough ...
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Hail, hail Chuck Berry
Chicago Sun-Times
; NEW YORK "This is gonna make you laugh," said Chuck Berry, laughing himself, slapping my knee for emphasis. We were sitting amid the understated luxury of the lounge of New York's Mayfair Regent Hotel. Despite his reputation for being bitter, difficult, Berry laughs easily and often, his eyes
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Behind the legend DVD release of Berry tribute 'Hail, Hail' sheds light on complicated artist
Rocky Mountain News
; Rock-music fans everywhere should genuflect to Mick Jagger for making the terrible 1985 album She's the Boss, followed by the asinine decision to tour without the Rolling Stones. Keith Richards was infuriated enough by those boneheaded moves to pursue other ventures, most famously his pet project
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Berry just couldn't be good. ..
Mail on Sunday
; ... Roll Over Beethoven, and Sweet Little Sixteen. And that, received wisdom tells us, is the sum total of the good news. As far as bad news goes, the charges against Berry are legion: famously mean, he always demanded cash up front before performing and ...
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Chuck Berry:A living legend of rock 'n roll Guitar genuis heads to Belfast
Belfast Telegraph
; Way back in the 1920s, Charles Edward Anderson was born in modest surroundings in St Louis, Missouri - in those times, there were only a few areas in town where black families could buy property. His father was a contractor and a deacon at the local Baptist church, his mother a schoolteacher. His
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Profile: Chuck Berry's 1955 hit "Maybellene"
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
; ... Chuck Berry finally scored a number-one hit on the pop charts. The song? A rather indelicate ditty called My Ding-A-Ling. For NPR News, I'm Jesse Wegman. (Soundbite of Maybellene by Chuck Berry) Mr. BERRY: Maybellene, why can't you be true? LYDEN: And for this ...
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