R.I.P. Chuck Berry

[medic1]

Re: Chuck Berry Resquiat in Pace

I was just watching this on the noon news. I did not realise he was 90 yrs old.

He was an artiste way ahead of his time. RIP.

 

[gsdx]

The TV news said tonight he has been inactive for FORTY years

Big fucking deal. Let the man rest in peace.

 

[Vannie]

The TV news said tonight he has been inactive for FORTY years

Crocus City Hall, Moscow, Russia 2014. last perfomance. last concert.

 

[G-Lexington]

Can someone explain the importance of this late singer to someone like me who has no idea who he is (or was)?

Did he personally influence the 1960s 'Mersey Beat'?




--- Like, Chuck Berry was different from Chubby Checker.

Chuck Berry was the Mann Act violator who installed hidden cameras in the women's bathrooms of his business, so he could watch them urinate. He also went to jail for several months for tax evasion.

Chubby Checker is the dance-for-us person who protested outside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because radio wasn't playing his four-decades old hit anymore.

Lex

 

[nycguydowntown]

I read he owned a restaurant in his later years---played there and another local place up until he died.

 

[frankfrank]

The TV news said tonight he has been inactive for FORTY years

He also looked pretty active when I saw him live in 1998 or 1999.

 

[KaraBulut]

Chuck Berry was the Mann Act violator who installed hidden cameras in the women's bathrooms of his business, so he could watch them urinate.

Always ahead of his time, it seems. He could have made millions with a fetish website today.

10 Things You Never Knew About... Chuck Berry

 

[Cormac135]

Chuck Berry was the Mann Act violator who installed hidden cameras in the women's bathrooms of his business, so he could watch them urinate. He also went to jail for several months for tax evasion.

Chubby Checker is the dance-for-us person who protested outside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because radio wasn't playing his four-decades old hit anymore.

Lex

I always thought the toilet thing was Little Richard, i like him more now.

 

[mikeyjon]

I always thought the toilet thing was Little Richard, i like him more now.

Little Richard's camera would have been in the men's room.

 

[KaraBulut]

Little Richard's camera would have been in the men's room.

Little Richard would have been holding the camera while getting peed upon.

 

[pat grimshaw]

I keep getting him mixed up with Little Richard...

Was he some kind of homosexual on the down low?

... "Johnny B. Goode"...

This fast-pace and heavy monotone drum beat is very similar to this—

Chuck Berry was the Mann Act violator who installed hidden cameras in the women's bathrooms of his business, so he could watch them urinate...
Lex

I guess he was one of those Potty-Peepers that parents worry about now that it's "human right issue" to allow young men wearing bad wigs to enter their daughter's changing rooms.

 

[JohnnyAnger]

I was just wanted a short summary or a video or two.

He is one of the most important musicians for reasons you will no doubt hate. People go to Johnny B Goode as his signature track, but the reality is its Roll Over Beethoven - its one of the biggest fuck you's in music. Its him stating that classical music is dead (and pretty much white supremacy of western in reality), and that black rock and roll is here and its going to kick the arse of everything that came before. It inspired Mersey Beat just a little bit, as well as most things that came later.