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12 Things You Didn’t Know About Chuck Berry It was 90 years ago, today, that Charles Edward Anderson Berry was born in St. Louis, Missouri. The great-grandson of slaves, Chuck Berry grew up to become the “Father of Rock & Roll,” and one of the most influential artists, ever. Berry was the catalyst that would integrate musical styles, as well as the races, cranking out hit after hit, for anyone who would buy his records. To celebrate his 90th birthday, we’ve compiled a list of lesser known facts about the man, and the artist.
American Blues Scene ~ October 181. Berry was raised in a segregated, middle class, neighborhood of North St. Louis, known as “The Ville.” The areachuckberry-nice4 was so segregated, in fact, that he didn’t encounter a white person until he was three years old. It was then he witnessed several white firefighters battling a large blaze. According to Berry, “I thought they were so frightened that their faces were whitened from fear of going near the big fire.”
2. Chuck’s father, Henry Berry, was not only a carpenter, but deacon of the Antioch Baptist Church. It was there that the young Berry started singing in the choir at the age of six. Later, he attended Sumner High School, where, in 1941, he sang the Jay McShann song, “Confessin’ the Blues,” at the annual talent show. The school administration was less than impressed with his song choice, but the student body loved it, sparking the young man’s interest in learning guitar.
3. Berry is well known for his run-ins with the law. His first time in jail was at the age of seventeen, when he and some friends went on a robbery spree in Kansas City, with a gun they found in a parking lot. Convicted of armed robbery, he was given the maximum sentence of 10 years, to be served at the Intermediate Reformatory for Young Men, near Jefferson City, Missouri. During that time, he joined a Gospel group and also took up boxing, fighting under the name, Wild Man Berry. He was released after 3 years on his 21st birthday.
4. On New Year’s Eve, 1952, a member of the Sir John Trio, led by pianist, Johnnie Johnson, fell ill and was unable to perform their gig at the Cosmopolitan Club in East St. Louis. Johnson knew that Berry was still a relatively inexperienced guitarist and probably wouldn’t have a gig that night, so he called him to sit in. Berry’s vocals and flamboyance impressed the band, as well as the crowd, and Johnson added him as a full time member of the group. So began a long, musical relationship between the two.
5. The music known as “hillbilly,” was the favored music among whites in the area, at that time. Berry began adding up-tempo country songs to the Trio’s repertoire of ballads and blues. It wasn’t long before white patrons heard the rumors of a black hillbilly, and began coming to their shows, integrating the predominantly black club. The black audience members, who first laughed at his attempts, soon found themselves requesting the hillbilly songs as well, dancing to the beat.
6. In May, 1955, Berry, at the suggestion of Muddy Waters, auditioned for Leonard Chess at Chess Records in Chicago. It was his reworked version of the Bob Wills song, “Ida Red,” which Berry had renamed “Ida May,” that caught his attention. Thinking the title sounded too rural, Chess spotted some mascara in the studio and suggested they call the song, “Maybellene,” changing the spelling to avoid a lawsuit from the cosmetics company. The song, which was dripping with teenage interest in cars and sex, was recorded by the Trio along with Willie Dixon on bass and Jerome Green, (from bo diddley‘s band), on maracas. In order to get the song more airplay, Chess gave a copy to disc jockey, Alan Freed. Unbeknownst to Berry, he also gave Freed and his associate Russ Fratto, two thirds of the writing credits to compensate them. “Maybellene,” became Berry’s first hit, scoring on the R&B, Country, and Pop Charts and selling over one million copies by the end of the year.
chuck_berry_19717. Berry’s last studio recording was the album, Rock It, released on the Atco Records label in 1979. He has released several live and compilation albums since that time.
8. Chuck Berry wrote dozens of hit songs that were covered by other artists. Some of these include, “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Brown Eyed Handsome Man,” “Rock and Roll Music,” “Little Queenie,” “Memphis, Tennessee,” and “Promised Land.” His only Number One hit, however, came in 1972, with his live version of the Dave Bartholomew novelty song, “My Ding-a-Ling.”
9. Outside of the music business, Berry has owned several businesses in and around the St. Louis area. His first endeavor, the fully integrated, Club Bandstand, was opened in the upscale, St. Louis Theater District in 1958. He was, shortly thereafter, convicted of violating the Mann Act, when an underage Native American girl he had hired, and subsequently fired, was arrested for prostitution at a local hotel. Compelling evidence has been provided that his conviction was, in fact, an act of systemic racism against Berry. Wealthy locals were enraged that he had the gall to open an integrated nightclub in the most prosperous and lavish part of the city. Regardless of the reasoning, it spelled the end of Club Bandstand. His second purchase was Berry Park, a 30 acre plot near Wentzville, Missouri, that originally featured 2 guest cottages, a nightclub and guitar shaped swimming pool. Although still Berry’s primary residence, it is no longer open to the public. In the 1980s, Berry purchased the historic restaurant, The Southern Air, in Wentzville. A 1990 class action suit against him for allegedly videotaping female employees and customers, caused Berry to sell the establishment. It is now a satellite campus of Lindenwood University.
10. For several years, Berry toured alone, with just his guitar. He would hire local musicians at each tour stop, to save the cost of touring with a full band. A local promoter would make all the arrangements, and Berry would show up, usually minutes before the show, without rehearsal, and instruct the band to watch his leg for cues. These shows were generally disappointing to his fans, and were eventually stopped.chuck-berry-duck-walk
11. Berry emulated the showmanship of guitarists such as T-Bone Walker, but his signature move on stage, the “duck walk,” was actually a fluke. At a show in New York, in 1956, he used the move he had begun as a child, in order to hide the wrinkles in a rayon suit he was wearing. The crowd went nuts, giving him a standing ovation, so he continued doing it for the rest of his career.
12. Chuck Berry was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1985. The following year, Keith Richards inducted him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, saying, “It’s very difficult for me to talk about Chuck Berry ’cause I’ve lifted every lick he ever played.” Almost every legendary rock band to follow him, including the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Seger, and Aerosmith, all give credit to Berry for their early sound. John Lennon once said, “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.”
Born on this day Oct 18, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri, Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry, American guitarist, singer and songwriter and is one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and music featuring guitar solos and showmanship that were a major influence on subsequent rock music. Berry's showmanship has been influential on other rock guitarists, particularly his one-legged hop routine, and the "duck walk", which he first used as a child when he walked "stooping with full-bended knees, but with my back and head vertical" under a table to retrieve a ball and his family found it entertaining; he used it when "performing in New York for the first time and some journalist branded it the duck walk."
CHUCK BERRY 90th BIRTHDAY
By John Einarson - Rock Historian - FacebookBorn into a middle-class African-American family in St. Louis, Missouri, Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School. While still a high school student he was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947. After his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant. By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of the blues musician T-Bone Walker, Berry began performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio. His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess, of Chess Records. With Chess he recorded "Maybellene"—Berry's adaptation of the country song "Ida Red"—which sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues chart. By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand. But in January 1962, he was sentenced to three years in prison for offenses under the Mann Act—he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines.
In late 1957, Berry took part in Alan Freed's "Biggest Show of Stars for 1957", touring the United States with the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, and others.[26] He was a guest on ABC's Guy Mitchell Show, singing his hit song "Rock 'n' Roll Music". The hits continued from 1957 to 1959, with Berry scoring over a dozen chart singles during this period, including the US Top 10 hits "School Days", "Rock and Roll Music,", "Sweet Little Sixteen", and "Johnny B. Goode". He appeared in two early rock-and-roll movies: Rock Rock Rock (1956), in which he sang "You Can't Catch Me", and Go, Johnny, Go! (1959), in which he had a speaking role as himself and performed "Johnny B. Goode", "Memphis, Tennessee", and "Little Queenie". His performance of "Sweet Little Sixteen" at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 was captured in the motion picture Jazz on a Summer's Day.
After his release in 1963, Berry had more hits in the mid-1960s, including "No Particular Place to Go", "You Never Can Tell", and "Nadine". By the mid-1970s, he was more in demand as a live performer, playing his past hits with local backup bands of variable quality. In 1979 he served 120 days in prison for tax evasion.
Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986; he was cited for having "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance." Berry is included in several of Rolling Stone magazine's "greatest of all time" lists; he was ranked fifth on its 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll includes three of Berry's: "Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", and "Rock and Roll Music". Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" is the only rock-and-roll song included on the Voyager Golden Record.
The journalist Chuck Klosterman has argued that in 300 years Berry will still be remembered as the rock musician who most closely captured the essence of rock and roll.
Roll over Frank Ocean and tell Beyoncé the news. Chuck Berry proved that the surprise album announcement is not solely the preserve of young artists when he announced the release of his first album in 38 years.
Happy 90th Birthday to Chuck Berry from the Hillmans
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I've been a fan from the beginning and we've performed so many of his songs over the years.
We even we recorded Johnny B. Goode, Roll Over Beethoven, and Promised Land.
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Chuck Berry, 90, announces first album in 38 years
The rock’n’roll legend chooses his 90th birthday to announce
that he is releasing a new album next year, titled Chuck
The Guardian ~ October 18, 2016The rock’n’roll legend picked his 90th birthday, on Tuesday, to reveal details of his new album, Chuck. Released on the Nashville-based label Dualtone, the album is the belated follow-up to Rock It, which came out in 1979. Details of the record were scanty, but a statement said that it would consist mainly of new material written and produced by Berry. It was recorded in St Louis, the musician’s hometown.
Chuck Berry: from enduring Jim Crow to a comeback album at age 90
Read moreBerry dedicated the album to his wife of 58 years, Thelmetta, implying that it would be his last. “This record is dedicated to my beloved Toddy,” the singer said in his statement. “My darlin’ I’m growing old! I’ve worked on this record for a long time. Now I can hang up my shoes!”
Chuck also features Berry’s children, Charles Berry Jr and Ingrid, on guitar and harmonica. Charles said: “What an honor to be part of this new music. The St Louis band, or as dad called us ‘the Blueberry Hill Band,’ fell right into the groove and followed his lead. These songs cover the spectrum from hard driving rockers to soulful thought provoking time capsules of a life’s work.”
The album will be released next year.
New York (AFP) - Rock pioneer Chuck Berry turned 90 on Tuesday with the surprise announcement that he plans to release his first album in decades. Berry said he recorded the album -- entitled simply "Chuck" -- at studios around his native St. Louis and will release it sometime next year. 
At 90, Chuck Berry back to rock 'n' roll
Chuck Berry was one of the pioneers of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s
AFP: Yahoo ~ October 18, 2016Considered one of the creators of rock 'n' roll, Berry helped define 1950s youth culture and shape the future of music by bringing together rhythm and blues, country guitar and consummate stage showmanship.
His 1958 song "Johnny B. Goode" is one of the most recognizable in popular music and was selected to represent rock music for potential extraterrestrial listeners on the Voyager spacecraft. "Chuck" will be the first album in 38 years by Berry, who has gradually cut back on live performances as his age advances.
Chuck Berry dedicated the album to his wife of 68 years, Themetta Berry. "My darlin', I'm growing old! I've worked on this record for a long time. Now I can hang up my shoes!" he said in a statement.
Berry recorded the album with his backup band -- which includes his son Charles Berry Jr. on guitar -- from his two decades of shows at the Blueberry Club in St. Louis. The band "fell right into the groove and followed his lead," the younger Berry said. "These songs cover the spectrum from hard-driving rockers to soulful thought-provoking time capsules of a life's work," he said.
Chuck Berry, who was in the first round of inductees when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened in 1986, will hold events to promote the album that will be announced later, his label said.
Chuck Berry is turning 90 without fanfare
The Desert Sun ~ October 13, 2016It’s a stretch of the imagination to say Desert Trip wouldn’t exist without Chuck Berry. But not a big one.
Berry, who turns 90 on Tuesday influenced all of the Desert Trip artists with '50s rock 'n' roll hits such as Maybelline, Johnny B. Goode and Brown-Eyed Handsome Man. While the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Who and Roger Waters have been partying at the two-weekend festival in Indio, there is no plan to salute Berry, and few plans to celebrate his birthday anywhere in the country.
According to a Google search, the largest celebration scheduled in the United States is a three-night tribute at the Rafael Espinoza Music Academy in Mineola, Texas, featuring music by Rafael Espinoza and his Lone Star Trio. Berry, who lives in St. Louis, hasn’t slated any performances, according to his website. Desert Trip promoter Paul Tollett says he didn’t want to incorporate a birthday theme into his festival.
Yet, people who have worked with Berry say the Desert Trip artists will remember him.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if the stars are aware,” said Bobby Craig, a rock ’n’ roll pianist who played with Berry in the 1980's and Elvis Presley in the 1970's in Palm Springs. “They probably are doing some things just on their own. Those guys are clearly of the age that had their socks knocked off by Chuck Berry — because Chuck Berry broke all the rules. His records were great, his tunes were great, the ideas he sang about were great. I think they have to know that.”
Tuesday is also the 30th anniversary of two concerts staged for Barry’s 60th birthday in St. Louis by Stones guitarist Keith Richards. Oscar-nominated director Taylor Hackford filmed those concerts as the centerpiece for his documentary, Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll.
Hackford also celebrated Berry’s 80th birthday by releasing a five-disk DVD set with a behind-the-scenes look at those concerts and complete interviews with rock 'n' roll pioneers who attested to Berry’s greatness and eccentricities.
He said Berry should be celebrated on his 90th birthday, too.
“I think Chuck Berry should be saluted every time there’s a concert,” said Hackford, who is now finishing a film with Robert De Niro called The Comedian. “He is totally unique and his influence just goes everywhere. But, the Rolling Stones are going to do what they’re going to do and they’re a great, great band. They cut their teeth on Chuck Berry and that was clear. They have many times talked about that influence.”
Roots of rock
The Rolling Stones were actually formed after Mick Jagger saw Richards holding a Chuck Berry record at the Dartford railway station in Kent, England. They had been elementary school classmates, Richards wrote in his book, Life, he thought he was the only Berry fan around until discovering Jagger had “every Chuck Berry ever made.” Jagger invited Richards to hang out with his cadre of R&B fans and they began playing music, with Richards playing electric guitar “Chuck-style.”
Dylan has said he was into Chuck Berry before discovering Woody Guthrie and turning to folk. His first rock hit, Subterranean Homesick Blues, is directly influenced by Berry’s Too Much Monkey Business.
The Beatles had hits with Berry compositions such as Roll Over Beethoven, Rock and Roll Music and Sweet Little Sixteen, and McCartney called Berry “one of greatest poets America has ever produced” in an introduction to the 2014 release of Berry’s complete studio recordings.
Young played with Berry and Richards at Berry’s 1986 induction into the first class of the Rock ’N’ Roll Hall of Fame, in which Richards said in his induction speech for his hero, “I lifted every lick he ever played.”
Hackford attended that ceremony with producer Stephanie Bennett, who had already asked him to direct a documentary about Berry.
“We went to the Chicago Film Festival and that’s where I met Keith and we started collaborating because we wanted to make it something really special,” Hackford said. “We also got a taste of Chuck, who was playing at the Chicago Film Festival, driving his big camper through Chicago the wrong way down a one-way street. It was astounding. I knew when I got in with Chuck Berry I had really fallen into a fantastic, creative feather bed. Chuck Berry is more like a bed of nails, but regardless, you know it’s not going to be boring.”
Berry wrote in his 1987 book, Autobiography, about his interest in doing interview "dwindled over the years as I would read back what I was supposed to have said to reporters.” Hackford interviewed Berry many times for his documentary and said Berry will “go down in history as a brilliant artist and an enigma.
“Chuck is a total contradiction," he said. “He’s a proud black man. On the other hand, he has a very critical view of different parts of society – racial and political and everything else. I would call him a genius. The definition of a genius is somebody apart (who) doesn’t feel the normal human weaknesses many of us do. Therefore they can be, let’s call it complicated, let’s call it difficult, sometimes irrational. When you see someone who is a genius, who has done things nobody else has, why should they be normal? They’re not normal.”
Hackford said the other pioneers he interviewed — including Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Bo Diddley and Presley’s producer, Sam Phillips — all called Berry an influence on them. Even Lewis, a pianist who spewed racist epithets at Berry when they toured together in the '50s, praised Berry.
“Jerry Lee said he had a big thing with Chuck and chose him off,” Hackford said, “and Chuck beat the (crap) out of him. He says this on film. But, when it came down to it, they all basically said this was the most brilliant artist of their generation.”
Troubled past
Berry was born to middle class parents in segregated St. Louis. He got in trouble with the law when he ran away from home with two high school dropouts at age 17. When their tires blew out and they had no money for food, Berry wrote, one of them robbed a bakery shop of $62. Berry found a fire-damaged gun in a used car lot and robbed a barbershop for $32. Then, they held up a clothing store for $52.
With that haul, they were able to buy a tire and a rim and some food to continue their journey west. A rod blew on Berry’s 1937 Oldsmobile at 3:30 a.m. After a couple hours of standing on the roadside, waiting for someone to give them a push, a man in a Chevy coupe stopped and offered to help. Berry flashed his defective gun and told him to move over "‘cuz he was driving." The guy bolted out of the passenger door, and Berry and a buddy lined up his car to start pushing Berry's Oldsmobile back to St. Louis with the other friend at the wheel.
A state trooper was waiting for them 10 minutes down the road, alerted by the Chevy owner who had scooted out of the passenger seat and ran to a phone booth. Berry was arrested and advised by an inexpensive lawyer to plead guilty and seek mercy from the court. The trial lasted 21 minutes. Berry said he was sentenced to the maximum 10 years in the Intermediate Reformatory for Young Men near Jefferson City, Mo.
When he was paroled on his 21st birthday, Berry returned to St. Louis and eventually began singing and playing guitar at parties, then nightclubs. He discovered that whenever he’d sing country songs he’d get a big reaction, even from African-American audiences. Eventually, he and his band — including pianist Johnny Johnson — gained enough of a reputation to get asked to record for Chess Records in Chicago. Their 1955 recording of Maybelline became the first song to fuse country and the blues into what became known as rock ’n’ roll.
Fats Domino, Little Richard and Bo Diddley all wrote and recorded songs that could be considered rock ’n’ roll before Berry. But no one wrote and recorded hit songs as prolifically as Berry. With Elvis bringing a mix of R&B and country to a white audience, they created a pop cultural revolution 60 years ago this year.
Berry would serve two more sentences behind bars, once for a violation of the seldom-enforced Mann Act and another for a tax evasion. It may come as no surprise that, despite his esteemed position in pop culture, he showed signs of low self-esteem.
“There’s a famous story that Chuck was in New York and he looked across the street and saw Nat King Cole,” he said. “Nat King Cole was an idol for every black performer. And Chuck Berry had three hits in the top 10 and he was so shy to think that he couldn’t walk across the street. He did not walk over because he did not think he belonged in that world.”
Berry wrote that he actually called across the street to Cole and caught his eye. He said he was "too excited to utter another following word.”
Craig, who performed with Berry and a Los Angeles backup band at the Palm Springs Convention Center in the late 1980s, said he found Berry very aware of his place in rock ’n’ roll and was actually pretty brash.
“So I’m surprised about that story except the awe that he was probably feeling from Nat Cole,” Craig said. “He was revered in America by white people and Chuck was still a rock ’n’ roll upstart. He probably didn’t think Nat King Cole would even know about him because rock ’n’ roll was so new and it was pooh-poohed so frequently that a lot of (pop stars) actually didn’t know who they were.”
Berry was a victim of the payola and corruption that was prevalent in rock 'n' roll in the 1950's. Alan Freed, a DJ who accepted payments for playing songs on his pioneering rock ’n’ roll radio show, got credited as a co-writer of Maybelline. Berry's manager, Teddy Reig, had a deal that Berry would get $1,500 a night and 60 percent of the gate after reaching a certain attendance. Berry said they never quite hit that attendance mark. So, by the 1960's, Berry always took his payment in advance in cash and wouldn’t perform if conditions weren’t up to his specifications. The promoter was even required to find a backup band for Berry and they rarely rehearsed.
Craig said he not only didn’t get any sheet music for his show with Berry, he didn’t recognize any of the songs Berry chose to play.
“He didn’t do Roll Over Beethoven – any the stuff I remember as his hit records,” he said. “He may have slipped in a few bars, but most of the time, he was riffing it. The band had done shows with him before, so they knew the ropes. But, he fired the guitar player on the second song. When he was going into this song, he heard it wrong and played a half note above what he was supposed to be playing. Chuck just found that intolerable and he very quietly and tastefully walked over to the guy and had a word with him. Then you saw the guy pack up and, tail between his legs, walk off stage. What I felt was, I might be next! With somebody like him, you have no assurance. We have little signals to say, if it’s E flat to bring it down to E, or whatever, and he didn’t do that. He just let it ride and figured if a guy can’t figure out a key, I can’t use him.”
Richards said he was motivated to assemble his own band for Berry’s 60th birthday because he was tired of hearing him play with bands that were always out of tune. Berry infuriated Richards and vocalist Linda Ronstadt by changing the keys without warning. Hackford captured Richards and Berry arguing on film. Craig said Berry just liked to "wing it."
“I think he was making them up as he was going along," he said of Berry's Palm Springs show. "But I have to tell you, he was wonderful. I remember he made the comment when I took over a solo, ‘This boy knows what he’s doing.’ I was getting it done. I knew where I was and he knew I knew where I was going, which is why he stopped and looked at me. There’s a reason why he is an icon and that is, by the seat of his pants, he’s got it. He’s got the musicality, he’s got the voice and he’s got the charisma. He had it all.”
There’s no question that Berry was a victim of racism and bad management, Hackford say. He stayed in St. Louis, when other St. Louis musicians of his generation, like Miles Davis and Ike Turner left, and he overcame his obstacles.
“I clearly had that in my film,” Hackford said. “We’re doing this (concert) at the Fox Theatre, this big, incredibly beautiful movie palace, and Chuck talked about going there when he was a little boy and they wouldn’t even sell him a ticket. They didn’t allow blacks. The fact that he’s headlining the Fox Theatre, it was very meaningful to him. (But) to me, the more meaningful thing was the nuance of it. What movie was he going to see? He was going to see A Tale of Two Cities with Ronald Colman! Chuck Berry is a very literary guy. I mean, Chuck Berry is a brilliant poet and a brilliant artist.
“Chuck Berry got ripped off on his first big hit, Maybelline. But, you know what? He learned. It’s like, ‘Fool me once, it’s your fault, fool me twice, it’s my fault.’ He never got fooled again. He made a ton of money in his life.
“He’s a dark, dark presence, and I’m not talking about the color of his skin. He was a dark guy in terms of his personality. He could be funny and unbelievably entertaining and make everybody feel like they want to party all night. Chuck was not a big drinker and he didn’t take drugs. He focused all of his energy on making money and having sex and performing. And he’s also a very sexual human being. He’s dangerous. That’s why he’s the definition of rock ’n’ roll.”
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