Chuck Berry Dies at 90

[KKOB]

Rock and roll legend Chuck Berry has died aged 90, police in US state of Missouri report.

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

Although I must admit, I thought he'd been dead for years.

[busybee]

Legend and founder of rock and roll, a brilliant muscian and song writer.  RIP Chuck

[davybill]

Thanks for memories Chuck, R.I.P.

[Colwyn]

I remember seeing him in 1966 in Newcastle. Great bluesman/rock & roller. Didn't trust anyone very much: not agents, not managers, not other hangers-on. On tour just booked two, adjacent airline seats - one for him, one for his guitar. Got his backup band selected (and paid for) by the tour organizers: "Just make sure they know my stuff!".  I'm sure he recorded "My Dingaling" to show you could make a shed-load of money by selling cr*p to people who don't know better - and to make a shed-load of money, of course. RIP.

[kevin3]

 



   My first ever LP was Chuck Berry's  One Dozen Berries when I was sixteen, and nobody I knew had heard of him. I've still got it.

   I saw him live several times and believe he deserved the description as a "legend". A true one of a kind Blues Star.    RIP.

   

[JohnF]

My first ever LP was Chuck Berry's  One Dozen Berries when I was sixteen, and nobody I knew had heard of him. I've still got it.

I'll give you a fiver for it mate, all its worth as its so old now  

A classic:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ROwVrF0Ceg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ROwVrF0Ceg</a>

Ironically, this was the B side to Mary Whitehouse's favourite Chuck Berry song - mind you, as Billy Connolly once said in reference to her high moral stand against anything slightly risque "I wouldn't be too happy either if my surname rhymed with toilet"  

JF

[KKOB]

She was good. She knew a everything about anything that was immoral, but never watched or took part in it.  

[kevin3]

   John
   Sorry mate, it's priceless, it's a reminder that Chuck Berry (along with myself) were early trailblazers. When those around me

   were singing "hot diggity dog diggity" and enquiring about the price of Mongrels in shop windows, I was practicing with my

  Ding a ling and Be Bopping Lula.                    
 

[JohnF]

Ach well, worth a try I thought...

JF

[kevin3]

   Nothing ventured, as I used to say to the young ladies.