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Chuck Berry dies.

Sad guitar news. Legendary guitarist Chuck Berry has just been announced as dead. A few yesrs ago we asked guitarist Chuck Berry to answer a few personal questions about himself and here we have the information about the man who infulenced millions of guitar players including Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones nd Angus Young from AC/DC.

Birth Name: Charles Edward Anderson Berry

Nicknames: Father of Rock ‘N’ Roll, The Prime Minister of Rock ‘N’ Roll

Occupation: Musician

Born: October 18, 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri

Birth place: St. Louis, Mo.

Parents: Henry and Martha Berry

Wife: Themetta Suggs-Berry

Children: Darlin Ingrid Berry-Clay, Melody Exes Berry-Eskridge, Aloha Isa Lei Berry, Charles Edward Berry Jr.

Siblings: Henry, Thelma, Lucy, Paul, Martha

Weight: 180 pounds

Musically influenced by: Nat “King” Cole, Muddy Waters

Trademark: Duckwalk

FAVORITES

Food: Enjoys beef and seafood, peaches, home fries, candied yams, chili, grape soda, orange juice, Snickers bars and Dutch apple pie. Despises liver, okra, gumbo, celery, carrots, cooked onions, grapefruit, salami and liquor.

Hobbies: Playing music, softball, twenty questions, chess, croquet, highway driving

Comedians: Lucille Ball

Chuck Berry performs live at Toronto’s Rock and Roll Revival with raw power, which proves his reputation as the king of rock and roll. Filmed in 1969 by Academy Award-nominated documentarian D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus captured the electric atmosphere that Chuck Berry created. In this concert, Chuck Berry is at the peak of the career and delivers a knock out performance with the tracks that rose him to fame, and he holds nothing back!

1. Rock ‘n’ Roll Music
2. School Days
3. Johnny B. Goode
4. Carol
5. Promised Land
6. Hoochie Coochie Man
7. Maybellene
8. Too Much Monkey Business
9. Reelin’ and Rockin’
10. Sweet Little Sixteen
11. Wee Wee Hours
12. Brenda Lee
13. Johnny B. Goode


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