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Chuck Berry dies at 90, a founding father of rock 'n' roll


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2017 Mar 18, 3:48pm   2,975 views  10 comments

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Chuck Berry, a founding father of rock ’n’ roll who designed much of the music’s sonic blueprint and became his era’s most creative lyricist, has died. He was 90.

Berry had six Top 10 hits from 1955 through 1964, and was a dynamic force on the frenzied rock ’n’ roll tours of the ’50s, with his piercing gaze and famous “duck walk,” in which he crouched low and scooted across the stage with one leg extended and his guitar held high.

Berry was part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s inaugural induction class in 1986. He received a lifetime achievement Grammy in 1984, was named to the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000 and received Sweden’s prestigious Polar music prize in 2014.

More: http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-chuck-berry-snap-20170318-story.html

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2   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 Mar 18, 5:33pm  

www.youtube.com/embed/h9kgu71d81U

Yet ANOTHER guy who couldn't stand Yoko Ono.

3   Dan8267   2017 Mar 18, 9:30pm  

I want you to look at Chuck Berry's face in the below image. This is when Yoko does that weird goat yell in the middle of the song.

That face is the one every guy makes when he realizes his buddy's girlfriend is batshit crazy. I know that look very well, not because I've ever made it, but because all my friends have many times. John, when your friend makes that look, you need to dump your bitch.

4   Dan8267   2017 Mar 18, 9:31pm  

Yoko demonstrates that some people just can't stand it when the attention isn't on them.

5   indigenous   2017 Mar 19, 11:15am  

Johhny Carson on the drums, Dick Clark as the M/C

www.youtube.com/embed/VvaG4dVE6fQ

6   Patrick   2017 Mar 19, 11:30am  

Berry was married to their mother, Themetta “Toddy” Suggs, for nearly 70 years. The two were married in October 1948.

Impressive.

7   MisdemeanorRebel   2017 Mar 19, 1:00pm  

Dan8267 says

Yoko demonstrates that some people just can't stand it when the attention isn't on them.

Another Top Quality Yoko performance ruined by Chuck Berry and John Lennon.

8   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2017 Mar 19, 6:19pm  

I love Chuck Berry. All I listened to in high school was 1980's rock and metal until a classmate told me I was missing out by not listening to Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. So I started listening to them. And of course when both bands along with Black Sabbath and Judas Priest said they wouldn't exist without Chuck Berry I had to find out who he was too...and of course I'm like, "Oh, the Back to the Future song" and finally I got the joke about the band guy calling his cousin Chuck.

Anyway, Chuck Berry was awesome and responsible for so much of the music I listen to. When you talk of titans of rock, its Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley in the 50's, Beach Boys, Beatles, and Rolling Stones in the 60's, and Led Zepplin and Black Sabbath in the 70's. A black man that could appeal to white audiences in that era, Chuck Berry might be at the top of that list.

www.youtube.com/embed/23y2Cz40zs4

9   Ceffer   2017 Mar 19, 7:09pm  

Mark David Chapman was John Lennon's karma boomerang for polluting the music world with Yoko Ono.

10   Patrick   2017 Mar 19, 9:58pm  

I honestly never knew that "Back in the USSR" was based on anything. Now it all make more sense.

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