Chuck Berry (1926 - 2017)

[Lat-Literal]

Chuck Berry RIP

Roll Over Beethoven - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT3kCVFFLNg

(And where and when I saw him - it was stopped at the end because his son pulled him off the stage)

Camp Bestival 2008 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5JCoqazl_g

[teamsaint]

Incomparable.
Rest well in the Promised Land.

[Lat-Literal]

Incomparable.
Rest well in the Promised Land.

Yes indeed, ts.

Ultimately my favourite rock n roller although initially it was Cochran.

Anyways:

The Clash - Train in Vain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Yl4ehzX-o

[cloughie]

Chuck influenced all the great 60s Groups - Beatles, Stones, Animals, Manfreds, Yardbirds, Hollies and many others plus Buddy Holly and many American rock 'n' rollers, and the whole Beach Boys surfing sound. He would come over here and with 'pick up' bands make them sound half-decent such was his personal sound.

RIP Chuck

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Chuck Berry (1926 - 2017)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39318602

[johncorrigan]

Duck walk on you wonder. So sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLV4NGpoy_E

[pastoralguy]

[BBMmk2]

RIP Chuck Berry. Thank you for the music.

[EdgeleyRob]

A great innings Chuck

RIP Sweet Little Rock N Roller

[gurnemanz]

RIP ...Some of my earliest pop memories but a bit too young to be the target audience (I was eight in 1957 when Sweet Little Sixteen came out - only to be reincarnated later via the Beach Boys as Surfin USA) but I definitely absorbed the music through my elder sisters and their friends who were 14/15 and fully into it (Radio Luxemburg). One of his songs was on the first album I ever bought: Stones first LP n 1964(Oh Carol). In the same year the Beatles covered his "Rock and Roll Music" on Beatles for Sale.

[Richard Tarleton]

RIP ...Some of my earliest pop memories but a bit too young to be the target audience (I was eight in 1957 when Sweet Little Sixteen came out - only to be reincarnated later via the Beach Boys as Surfin USA) but I definitely absorbed the music through my elder sisters and their friends who were 14/15 and fully into it (Radio Luxemburg). One of his songs was on the first album I ever bought: Stones first LP n 1964(Oh Carol). In the same year the Beatles covered his "Rock and Roll Music" on Beatles for Sale.

My experience too (minus the elder sisters), we're the same vintage, gurnemanz. What a life.



I did see George Thorogood do a fine duck walk, at Slane in 1982

[visualnickmos]

One the greatest voices in music....

[johncorrigan]

As you'd expect, David Remnick in The New Yorker gives Chuck a suitable send-off.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/remembering-chuck-berry-who-died-at-ninety?mbid=nl_170320_Daily&CNDID=23901332&spMailingID=10657822&spUserID=MTMzMTgyMzE0NTYzS0&spJobID=1121606118&spReportId=MTEyMTYwNjExOAS2

[Richard Tarleton]

Great article john. Good to see that Berry/Richards clip we saw on all the news programmes in full and read more on what lay behind it. And speaking as a plucker meself, albeit in a different genre, the idea of Chuck - anyone - preferring the keys of B flat and E flat - the mind boggles, any more than one flat is hard work with top and bottom strings tuned to E - perhaps rockers on the forum can shed some light on this . I can see a virtuoso like Springsteen taking this in his stride, but I can imagine Keef with his liking for nice easy open G tuning struggling......

Anyway a fine and appropriate tribute.