Chuck Berry has died

[delcecchi]

He was 90. 

Hail Hail rock and roll. 

[Rebel SS]

Yer a little late on that one.



WE just lost a great one....
« on: Yesterday at 05:15:15 PM »

RIP, Chuck. Thanks for all of it...

http://www.ksdk.com/news/rock-n-roll-legend-chuck-berry-has-died-at-90/423646802

[LPS]

Great guy and great music.  I replied awhile back but someone blocked my response....   lol  You never know if anyone hears you.....

[Rebel SS]

O, we hear ya....

[delcecchi]

Yer a little late on that one.

Somebody posted it first?   

[delcecchi]

Yer a little late on that one.

Not much, happened today. 

[Lee Borgersen]

 

              Chuck Berry, wild man of rock who helped define its rebellious spirit, dies at 90

 

 
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Chuck Berry, the perpetual wild man of rock music who helped define its rebellious spirit in the 1950s and was the sly poet laureate of songs about girls, cars, school and even the “any old way you choose it” vitality of the music itself, died March 18 at at his home in St. Charles County, Mo. He was 90.



St. Charles County police  announced the death in a Facebook post on its Website, saying officers responded to a medical emergency at Mr. Berry’s home and administered lifesaving techniques but could not revive him. No further information was available.

“While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together,” reads Mr. Berry’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.

Besides Mr. Berry, members of the rock hall of fame’s inaugural class included Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino and the Everly Brothers. Of those he survived, Mr. Berry remained the most indefatigable and acclaimed performer, playing concerts all over the world well into his 80s.

Despite John Lennon’s oft-quoted quip — “If you tried to give rock-and-roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’ ” — Mr. Berry was an unlikely idol for a burgeoning teen subculture that he sang about at the dawn of the rock era.

He was 30, married and the father of two when he made his first recording, “Maybellene” in 1955. The song — a story of a man in a Ford V8 chasing his unfaithful girlfriend in a Cadillac Coupe de Ville — charted No. 1 on Billboard’s rhythm-and-blues chart and No.5 on the pop music charts.

 

                                                       

                                                Rock on Chuck



 

 

 

 



 

[Rebel SS]

  Doesn't anyone read the links???!?!?!?!

[Rebel SS]

Hey!! Anyone hear that Chuck Berry died?      

[Gunner55]

Yup, we just lost a great one!  

[Easy]

Did you hear that Chuck Berry died? 

[Rebel SS]

What???!!

[Easy]

I say, Chuck Berry died.  Age of 90.  He is no more, deceased, passed away, dead.

You made a lot of kids happy Mr. Berry.  Thank you.