To infinity and beyond!




"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Gave the house a good blast this morning in his honour - thanks Chuck.

In my simplistic view of music history he was the key influence on both the Stones and the Beatles. Without the Beatles, pop music as we know it wouldn't exist and without the Stones, rock in all the forms we love wouldn't exist. So that's quite an influence we have to thank him for.

Let it Rock!

RIP CHUCK ... JOHNNY B GOODE ~ MICK JAGGER (Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys) Mick's First Group
[www.youtube.com]
"Mick's First Group with Dick Taylor on guitar first demo, recorded in Taylor's parents living room..."

"I think I learned my first Chuck Berry lead from Keith Richards probably."
Bruce Springsteen

England's Newest Hitmakers - Rolling Stones first LP...
The first time I ever had or heard a Stones album.
This Chuck Berry song was featured.
[www.youtube.com]

and they had me. just like that.
53 or so years later I'm right on it as I type this and it feels realll good.



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Condolences to the family. He will be remembered for a very long time & missed greatly. RIP

RIP Chuck Berry
Rockandroll,
Mops

Chuck and Ronnie at the Ritz, NYC '82. I was at this show and am listening to the boot now. Great night.

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A splendid Roll Over Beethoven cover. Thanks to Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones.

[www.youtube.com]

It surely was and brought me up some and I thank you for it. I hadn't heard that before!



CHUCK BERRY: 1926-2017
by Glenn Kenny
[www.rogerebert.com]

Barack Obama Verified account @BarackObama

"Chuck Berry rolled over everyone who came before him – and turned up everyone who came after. We'll miss you, Chuck. Be good."

Rockin out for Chuck..we are not worthy...

[www.youtube.com]

.Reaction to the death of rock ‘n’ roll legend Chuck Berry
[www.washingtontimes.com]

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Rockin out for Chuck..we are not worthy...

[www.youtube.com]

wow. over and out for me. i'm taking that with me and leaving it alone.
how excellent. goosebumps...ty.

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Barack Obama Verified account @BarackObama

"Chuck Berry rolled over everyone who came before him – and turned up everyone who came after. We'll miss you, Chuck. Be good."

Goddamn, I miss that man. Feels like he's been gone for years already.

I miss Eisenhower





“I was...the descendant, if you will, of the first generation of guys who played rock ’n’ roll ...They played this type of music that was black AND white. Extremely incendiary. Your clothes could catch fire. When I first heard Chuck Berry, I didn’t consider that he was black. I thought he was a hillbilly. Little did I know, he was a great poet, too. And there must have been some elitist power that had to get rid of all these guys, to strike down rock ’n’ roll for what it was and what it represented — not least of all being a black-and-white thing."
Do you mean it’s musical race-mixing and that’s what made it dangerous?
“Racial prejudice has been around awhile, so, yeah. And that was extremely threatening for the city fathers, I would think. When they finally recognized what it was, they had to dismantle it, which they did, starting with payola scandals. The black element was turned into soul music, and the white element was turned into English pop. They separated it...[But] it was a part of my DNA, so it never disappeared from me. I just incorporated it into other aspects of what I was doing. I don’t know if this answers the question. [Laughs.] I can’t remember what the question was.”
--Bob Dylan, 2015


Here's the big E relaxin' a little with a berry tune...
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June 1986 NYC The Ritz by Karen Petersen

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I paid for the show that Chuck ran away from with a suitcase of cash

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Hope the Stones will do one last Berry cover as a tribute on the upcoming album.

Roll Over Beethoven in the 1970 European Tour arrangement would be a killer track.

Chuck Berry, Rock ’n’ Roll Pioneer, Dies at 90
By JON PARELES - MARCH 18, 2017. New York Times
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That's really sad RIP Chuck and thank you for this great great R&R music

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MonkeyMan2000
Hope the Stones will do one last Berry cover as a tribute on the upcoming album.

Roll Over Beethoven in the 1970 European Tour arrangement would be a killer track.

Pretty sure they would if they were touring right now, but who knows in 6 months? In 2006 they did James Brown's I Go Crazy as a tribute



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Sometimes the media ignores the passing of great people and it is sad,
so it is proper to see that the MSM is giving the passing of the Great Chuck Berry proper attention.

Chuck deserves it. He helped change the world for the better. Thank you Chuck!

Condolences to CBII.
No words can help... only time can make it not hurt as much.

To the Man that to me was bigger than life every time I plugged in my guitar banging out Johnny B Goode .The real king of the six string with his iconic songs that changed everything and influenced everyone .May your memory live forever with the great music you created R.I.P. Chuck Berry

Like for the 78 tour, a chuck berry's song to start the 2017 tour.

Keith already did it right... and he did it while Chuck was alive.
Hail Hail Rock and Roll was a pretty cool thing.


The Stones dont do tributes, talk politics or preach (thank goodness)... they entertain

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MonkeyMan2000
Hope the Stones will do one last Berry cover as a tribute on the upcoming album.

I agree, but I have my doubts.

I believe that The Stones supported (morally and financially) Johnnie Johnson in his action against Chuck over the composition of his songs (ironic really when they cut Charlie/Bill/Ronnie/Brian out in the same way), and when the action was lost they stopped performing Berry songs.

(Cue someone to tell me that's nonsense....)

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Captain Corella
60 Years a Fan

Rolling Stones - Come On (1963 BBC Session)
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Rolling Stones - Roll Over Beethoven (1963 BBC Session)
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ROLLING STONES - Carol - 1964 - Live - Mike Douglas Show
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The Rolling Stones, Carol. Live 1969 (complete)
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the rolling stones - carol - enhanced sound (French TV lip-synch)
"The Rolling Stones lip sync "Carol" on French tv - October 19, 1964. Oh boy, camera men in those days really knew how to mess up a performance... missing almost every solo Keith was playing, missing Mick singing the lines; taking the wrong shot about every ten seconds. In Holland there's a saying: doing it the French way, which means: doing things messy... Anyway, this should be played LOUD. Oh, by the way, watch Bill Wyman: he has a six string guitar (six knobs) and at 0.35 it looks as if they changed it into a four string "bass". (Their own equipment hadn't arrived in time so they had to use these borrowed guitars made by Klira. a German make. (Thank you dickirish1.)
Recorded on January 3, 1964, released in the UK on the album "The Rolling Stones" and in the US on "England's Newest Hit Makers" in 1964."
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The Rolling Stones Ep 1964 Jonnhy Bye Bye
[www.youtube.com]

Rolling Stones - Bye Bye Johnny - Philadelphia - July 20, 1972
[www.youtube.com]

Rolling Stones: Little Queenie- Live 1971
[www.youtube.com]

Carol/ Little Queenie-Rolling Stones '69
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Chuck Berry Invented the Idea of Rock and Roll
[www.slate.com]

"But they might also mention that, if Chuck Berry did not invent the music synonymous with his name, he sensed something large in it, and, in a way no one else did, put that sense into words. In his hands, rock became something mythopoeic, and for a not-insignificant number of years, this exalted perception of itself reigned. Most of the significant artists of the last half-century or more didn’t just make rock and roll records; they made records that in one way or another hinted at something bigger. It was something Chuck Berry told them they could do."

RIP... and thank you so much for your music :


- Photo by Terry O'Neill -

The Life chuck berry could have had.... [www.youtube.com]

I hope there is a backup band in heaven, cause chuck ain't bring one!

.....keep on rolling.....

A beautiful video; I had never seen it.

The best band with the exception of Chuck's real band with Johnny Johnson would be Bruce and The E-Street band .What a sound those two could make a sound forged in Rock and Roll heaven is pure ecstasy and bliss to the ears .