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OT Chuck Berry, Rock & Roll Innovator, Dead at 90

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  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,067

    Just got bck in and it was the first thing I heard on the radio.  Great loss.

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,843

    Wow, the passing of an icon! At least he had a full life. I grew up listening to him as my Dad was a fan and played his music in various bands over the years. R.I.P.

  • ALLIEKATBLUEALLIEKATBLUE Posts: 2,983

    RIP Chuck, a real pioneer

  • wizwiz Posts: 1,100

    I'm saddened to hear that.

    Also surprised, because I had simply assumed he'd passed away years ago, an I just couldn't remember when.

  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631

    we all learned from him

    the big grandpa of Rocknroll

    and as you can see you can get to 90 years with this lifestyle

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    He certainly had a good innings

    Now we will never hear that proposed new release.

  • macleanmaclean Posts: 2,438

    If there was an official  Rock 'n' Roll songbook, it would have been mostly written by Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly.

  • Mighty MysterioMighty Mysterio Posts: 419

    I was lucky enough to have seen him live somewhere in the early 1990s. It was close enough in time to that "Hail Hail Rock and Roll" concert movie with Keith Richards. The show itself wasn't very good by any objective standards since Chuck didn't even bother meeting his backing band till he stepped onstage, but Chuck was such a strong, charismatic personality that no one felt like they didn't get their money's worth. Dude was in his 60s and could still duckwalk!! He even gave me an autograph later.

    His riffs and licks will live on for many decades to come, well beyond what was once called rock-and-roll.

  • HoroHoro Posts: 11,357

    I bought my first singles in the early 1960s and became a fan immediately, and still am a fan of his music. I got his autobiography in 1996. I still have 17 LPs from Chess (very difficult to get by in Switzerland at the time). I'll certainly never forget him and his music.

  • cdpro_2831bbd990cdpro_2831bbd990 Posts: 1,430
    Mighty Mysterio said:

    I was lucky enough to have seen him live somewhere in the early 1990s. It was close enough in time to that "Hail Hail Rock and Roll" concert movie with Keith Richards. The show itself wasn't very good by any objective standards since Chuck didn't even bother meeting his backing band till he stepped onstage, but Chuck was such a strong, charismatic personality that no one felt like they didn't get their money's worth. Dude was in his 60s and could still duckwalk!! He even gave me an autograph later.

    His riffs and licks will live on for many decades to come, well beyond what was once called rock-and-roll.

    LOL...He was still duck walking in his 80s.  Last time I saw him was around 2009...He was shopping in a military surplus store in St. Louis.  Apparently, he had a fondness for military captain's style hats.

    What I had heard about his contracts was that the band better damn well know how to play Chuck's songs.  Chuck just expected them to be good.  I doubt that he was very often disappointed.

     

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