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It's only rock'n'roll ; Put Keith Richards and Chuck Berry together on the same stage? It seemed a good idea at the time, says TAYLOR HACKFORD
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I did Hail! Hail! Rock-'n'Roll quite some years ago now, and I
had some of the best reviews of my career. But the documentary was
an extraordinary experience from behind the camera as well. When I
did the original film, the concept was to do a concert, a
celebration of Chuck Berry's 60th birthday. I thought that here was
an opportunity to deal with probably the greatest force, the
greatest artist in rock'n'roll, certainly in the early years, the
original singer-songwriter, the originator of a...
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INTERVIEW: CHUCK BERRY - MISTER DYNAMITE He invented rock'n'roll, gave adolescent lust a voice and found out the hard way what jail-bait really means. And all Chuck Berry wants in return is a hire car, some able musicians and no meeting and greeting. Mark Jacobson joins the original `duckwalker' on tour - sweet 75 and still unstoppable
The Independent - London
; ... and you're 75 years old, and you invented rock'n'roll, you can do - or not do - anything you want. Now go tell Tchaikovsky the news. In the pantheon of outsize personalities who came together in the 1950s to invent what we now know as rock'n'roll, Elvis was ...
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CHUCK BERRY, THE MOVIE
The Boston Globe
; NEW YORK - No," Taylor Hackford says with a dazzling California smile, "I'm not turning into a rock 'n' roll filmmaker." It was coincidence, the pony-tailed Hackford says, relaxing in jeans and a scarlet sweater in an East Side hotel suite, that he filmed "Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll," the Chuck
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Pop: Lyric Sheets: On Chuck Berry's Birthday Chuck Berry, rock'n'roll pioneer and composer of immortal songs too numerous to mention, is 75 years old this week
The Independent - London
; Consider this: Chuck Berry (b 1926) The same age as my own mother Who, so far as I have been aware Has never done a duckwalk in her life. Chuck Berry, notorious as he's famous Former hairdresser and beautician The greatest living American poet Better by bop degrees than Bob Dylan. Chuck Berry,
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Pop: Lyric Sheets: On Chuck Berry's Birthday; Chuck Berry, rock'n'roll pioneer and composer of immortal songs too numerous to mention, is 75 years old this week.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; Consider this: Chuck Berry (b 1926) The same age as my own mother Who, so far as I have been aware Has never done a duckwalk in her life. Chuck Berry, notorious as he's famous Former hairdresser and beautician The greatest living American poet Better by bop degrees than Bob Dylan. Chuck Berry,
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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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Chuck Berry brings his legendary music to the Palace
Call and Post (Cleveland)
; Call and Post (Cleveland) 02-06-1992 Chuck Berry brings his legendary music to the Palace. The legendary Chuck Berry comes to the Palace Theatre, Sunday, February 29, 1992 at 7:30 p.m. He is a bigger star today than at any time in his career. "The London Chuck Berry Sessions," album, one side of
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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
; 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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Culture: Gig review: Flame still burns for original rock and roll heroes; Jerry Lee Lewis/Chuck Berry Wolverhampton Civic Hall.(Features)
The Birmingham Post (England)
; Byline: Marcus Face Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis are undisputed rock icons. In their day they were among the very best of a group of American musicians who took the blues and cranked it up a couple of gears, into the mainstream pop thrill which would change the world forever. That music was rock
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Chuck Berry proves rock knows no age.(Arts and Lifestyle)
The Boston Herald
; Byline: DANIEL GEWERTZ CHUCK BERRY, with THE SUPERGROUP and ERNIE & THE AUTOMATICS At Berklee Performance Center, Sunday night. There was a worrisome moment, when Chuck Berry strolled on the Berklee stage and the 81-year-old rock deity showed his age. He struggled with a guitar strap. After a
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Swing low, sweet chariot You might think `Route 66' is the greatest road song ever written. You'd be wrong. Chuck Berry's `The Promised Land' is: it's a better song about a much better journey
The Independent - London
; Route 66 takes the motorist through some of the dullest parts of the United States. But that did not deter Bobby Troup from romanticising the road in song. I suspect he chose that particular highway because its designation rhymed rather nattily with his instruction to "get your kicks" during the
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