Posted on 03/18/2017 3:13:40 PM PDT by tje
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (KMOV.com) – The St. Charles County Police Department confirms the death of Charles Edward Anderson Berry Sr., better known as legendary musician Chuck Berry.
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One of the giants. RIP.
On a jet to the promised land...
RIP.
I liked Chuck’s songs. His lyrics were great. Not much of a fan of his guitar playing because I knew he was just ripping off Johnson’s Boogie Woogie piano style. I always srained to hear Johnson kickin’ it out in the background.
Check Chuck...
“Still, he invented rock guitar. “
Naw! He just transposed his piano player Johnnie Johnson’s Boogie Woogie licks to guitar.
Great tune. I knew nothing about Chuck Berry, so I will say: Thanks for the music...much of it was woven into so many lives. So many good memories, so...thanks for that!
Was he a kinky, disgusting and deviant reprobate? I’ve
heard that a time or two but not enough to be sure.
I hope not because he was one hell of a rock n’ roller.
Exactly! If Marvin hadn’t cut his hand at the “Enchantment Under The Sea” dance, Chuck never would have gotten to hear his mentor, Marty McFly, play.
Sad news, hope he finds his rest in the promise land,
” . .ripping off Johnson’s Boogie Woogie piano . .”
Not sure I agree with you and Keith on that score,
I was of age during the Seventies...OMG, that song brought back so many memories...:)
I used to be in a CYO band organization as a teenager (modeled after drum corps, not high school band) and I recall being on a rented schoolbus, driving 30 miles home some warm August night after a competition, all of us singing that song together at the top of our lungs!
As only Catholic kids from an official organization could! The chaperones could only, I am sure, roll their eyes!
What a grand memory! The Seventies was such a strange time...:)
Saw him back in 88... he was 1 hr late....played abt 10 songs and they cleared us out for the second show....ahole
Now that demands an answer!
The Real Thing--The Spiders (1954)
Don’t know about those. Angry and bitter were always the things that came out. Now given his generation and how the record companies treated artists in general and black artists in particular some of that was legit, but he just never seemed to get over it. And least not in public, hopefully in his more recent private years he did, bitter and angry is just no way to spend the final decades of your life.
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