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Rock Almanac: May 31
On This Date in 1961: Chuck Berry opens his Berry Park amusement complex in Wentzville, Mo. (Source: Spinner)
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Rock Almanac: July 23
On This Date in 1955: Chess Records releases ‘Maybellene,’ the debut single by Chuck Berry. (Source: Spinner)
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Rock Almanac: October 21
On This Date in 1972: ‘My Ding-A-Ling,’ by Chuck Berry, rises to the No. 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. The double-entendre song is Berry’s first and only chart-topping single. The...
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Pop-lifting (Part 1): Eagles, Beatles, Beach Boys and Their Stolen Music
The other day I got into my car and the first thing I did–just like I was taught in Driver’s Ed class–was to check the CD player. As I switched the function from radio to CD and landed on track 3...
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Pop-lifting (Part 2): Avril, Rod and Bob Marley Found Guilty
Welcome to another segment of the widely tolerated “Poplifting” feature, wherein we like to demonstrate our vast (or at least half-vast) knowledge of pop history’s musical pickpockets. Let’s point some...
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Chuck Berry Takes Keith Richards to School, Shows Him How to Rock (1987)
(Excerpted from Open Culture) The purpose of Taylor Hackford’s 1987 film Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll was to document two concerts held at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis to celebrate Chuck Berry’s 60...
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Rock almanac: January 23
On This Date in 1986: The first group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Ray Charles,...
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Did You Ever Realize…
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Chuck Berry’s 1987 appearance on the Johnny Carson show. The audience response was such that Carson (at 18:15 of this video) announces that his two other guests will appear another time, and Carson...
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