Recent Chuck Berry News:
Chuck Berry coming to Boston pick up PEN award - Sat, 21 Jan 2012
Roll over Beethoven, Chuck Berry is headed to Boston to pick up an award from PEN New England. The writers group has established the Award for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence, and the inaugural recipients are Berry and Leonard Cohen. PEN New England chairman Richard Hoffman told us yesterday that Berry, the 85-year-old rock n' roll pioneer whose hits include âMaybelleneâ and âJohnny B. Goode ...
Sunday Under The Covers with Chuck Berry - Sun, 05 Feb 2012
Chuck Berry, still rockin' at age 85. Long past the half-century mark, rock and roll is now nearing senior citizen status. Yesterday we marked the 53rd anniversary of the deaths of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Richie Valens, and we've had some tragic losses in the past couple weeks (Etta James, Johnny Otis, etc.). But one of our greatest original rockers is still with us - Chuck Berry, still ...
Kiwi base jumper loving life on the ledge - Sat, 14 Jan 2012
About 245 metres above Milwaukee, Chuck Berry is about to take the biggest step of his life.
Alabama artists interpret folk song traditions at Kentuck exhibit - Fri, 03 Feb 2012
Chuck Berry " in metallic duckwalk reels and rocks into a lean, like an ol' steam shovel. A twisted guitarist with hubcap hat coils in pre-violent threat like the "Saturday Night Special" of its title. Billie Holiday 's metaphorical "Strange Fruit" becomes both more concrete, as "Alabama Grapes," and more oblique than its subject - lynchings - via bold spatters of purple and green on a wide ...
RIP Etta James: See her sing with Chuck Berry here - Fri, 20 Jan 2012
CNN is reporting that legendary R&B singer Etta James , who had been diagnosed with leukemia, dementia and Hepatits C, has died at age 73. TV viewers got a healthy dose of her signature hit At Last every time American Idol aired an audition episode, as so many aspiring singers tackled the song she made into a worldwide hit in 1961. For a taste of her skill, check out her appearance with Chuck ...
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