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The rock and roll legend passed away Saturday.

Chuck Berry, Musician Who Helped Define Rock ’N’ Roll, Dies at 90

He outlived this guy who wrote his obituary:
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/li ... /99360568/

Something similar happened when Otis Chandler, the long-time publisher of the Los Angeles Times, died. His obituary had been largely written by the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning media critic, David Shaw, who had died the previous August. I noticed because I dated David's stepdaughter for a short time so his byline always caught my attention. --Bob

Chuck Berry performed at Knox College my freshman year 1964. He refused to go on until he was paid in cash (1300 dollars). Officials scrambled around Galesburg until they came up with the money.

ne1410s wrote:Chuck Berry performed at Knox College my freshman year 1964. He refused to go on until he was paid in cash (1300 dollars). Officials scrambled around Galesburg until they came up with the money.

Berry was widely known as being a rather....difficult person to work with. Ask Keith Richards (or watch the doc "Hail! Hail! Rock 'n Roll", which centers around a concert Richards was organizing celebrating Chuck..Keith's idol nearly drove him mad). When Berry toured in later days he would usually just have a local band hired from each city to back him up...he'd breeze in, play, collect his check, and be outta there like the Lone Ranger...no rehearsals, nothing. The poor band, often nothing more than a little bar band with little big time experience, would know the basic songs but not have a clue where Berry would be going when he veered from the arrangements from the records. Berry left many a shell-shocked group of musicians in his wake.


But let's face it, being an exemplary human being is not a prerequisite for being a rock 'n roll legend, and if you're building a rock 'n roll Mt. Rushmore, Chuck should be up there. His guitar licks are at the very foundation of the genre. As Bob Seger put it in "Rock 'n Roll Never Forgets", "all of Chuck's children are out there playin' his licks".

And they always will be.

The mainstream media got it wrong again! I guess it's an understandable mistake. Chuck Barris sounds a lot like Chuck Berry.
https://www.tvweek.com/tvbizwire/2017/0 ... ies-at-87/

TheConfessor wrote:The mainstream media got it wrong again! I guess it's an understandable mistake. Chuck Barris sounds a lot like Chuck Berry.
https://www.tvweek.com/tvbizwire/2017/0 ... ies-at-87/

Apparently, a lot of the mainstream media got it wrong:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/peop ... /99483048/

silverscreenselect wrote:

TheConfessor wrote:The mainstream media got it wrong again! I guess it's an understandable mistake. Chuck Barris sounds a lot like Chuck Berry.
https://www.tvweek.com/tvbizwire/2017/0 ... ies-at-87/

Apparently, a lot of the mainstream media got it wrong:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/peop ... /99483048/

I guess this means he won't be back with more stuff... right after this.

Pastor Fireball wrote:I guess this means he won't be back with more stuff... right after this.

Speaking of more stuff, Chuck Berry's final album, Chuck, will be released in June.

Inside Chuck Berry's First New Album in 38 Years