Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll ★★★ 1987 (PG)
Engaging, energetic portrait of one of rock's founding fathers, via interviews, behindthescenes footage and performance clips of Berry at 60. Songs featured: “Johnny B. Goode,” “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Maybelline,” and more. Appearances by Eric Clapton, Etta James, John and Julian Lennon, Roy Orbison, Linda Ronstadt, Bo Diddley and Bruce Springsteen among others. 121m/C VHS, DVD . Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Etta James, Robert Cray, Julian Lennon, Keith Richards, Linda Ronstadt, John Lennon, Roy Orbison, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bruce Springsteen, Kareem AbdulJabbar; D: Taylor Hackford.
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