Chuck Berry News

November 04, 2009, 6:00PM You know how old people always tell you how tough they had it as kids? They walked 10 miles to school in the snow, barefoot, pulling an Oldsmobile with four flat tires uphill with a mouth full of rusty razor blades.

EXETER four-piece The Computers make a hectic hardcore pop racket that nods its greasy collective quiff at Elvis Costello and Rocket From The Crypt.

The Beatles Past Masters I'll never forget the day I got my very first record. I was six or so, visiting my grandparents at their home in Point Grey, and my mom took me on a walk to a music store on 10th Avenue.

A BAND from Newport together just three months has been chosen to support rock legend Chuck Berry when he plays in the city later this year.

Backstreets, schmackstreets. Long-running Bruce Springsteen fanzine Backstreets called Sunday night's Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert at Scottrade Center a by-the-numbers disappointment.

The Show: Time Life is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with a slam-bang nine-disc collection, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live .

Today: is the 291st day of 2009. There are 74 days left in the year. On this date In 1867, the United States took formal possession of Alaska from Russia.

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Thanks largely to my having a brother who is seven years older than I, I became an avid follower of pop music from the time I was 6 , which was basically at the "Dawn of Rock and Roll." And so it was that I literally grew up on the music of Elvis, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, the Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Rock and roll first hit the airwaves in the mid-fifties, and it didn't take long for its creators to understand their ability to corrupt an audience with pleasure.

Today is Sunday, Oct. 18, the 291st day of 2009 with 74 to follow. The moon is new.

Louis, Berry grew up in a family proud of its African-American and Native-American ancestry.

While it's oversimplifying to credit Chuck Berry with single-handedly inventing rock 'n' roll, his remarkable mix of country licks and blues sensibility was a key part of the menu, yoked to catchy, clever tunes about teen angst, love and rebellion.

MORNINGPREP-MORNINGPREP-MORNINGPREP-MORNINGPREP ! ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY ! On October 21st, 1958, Buddy Holly held what ended up being his last recording session.

1973 - The divorce between Elvis and Priscilla Presley became final. 1989 - KISS released the album Hot in the Shade .

He's the founding father of rock 'n' roll a ' and he is set to bring his legend to Leeds.

Opus 19 Music , a division of Alan Ett Creative Group, will exclusively represent the formidable ARC Music song catalog for territories outside Japan and Southeast Asia.

THE spirit of punk is alive and kicking in the music of young local band The Maverick Rejects.

FRANK Sinatra was the best chart topper ever, reckons South Yorkshire music buff Chris Thornton.

In case you didn't know, feud-y diss tracks existed long before hip-hop came around.