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Chuck Berry RIP

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,225
edited March 2017 in Not Sports Related
The poet of rock and roll.

If you think his guitar riffs are corny then that is because everyone copied them.

His lyrics are genius.

RIP
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  • SX_Addick
    SX_Addick Posts: 667
    A true legend. RIP.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
    RIP
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    Wow another huge one.. sad news
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,620
    Marty McFly had a big influence on him

    RIP
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,722
    RIP to a legend
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    edited March 2017
    One of the absolute greats of music.
    So influential, and his stuff was so uplifting.
    RIP to an icon.
  • alan dugdale
    alan dugdale Posts: 3,077
    RIP
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    Top quality musician.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Absolute legend. Always hammered the session guys who backed him.

    RIP
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Abdolutely a master. His influence is so massive it becomes unnoticed and almost banal. But a true great of modern music.
    So glad I saw him live a few times whilst he still had it.
    Roll over Beethoven there's a new master there now.
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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    Met him in '79. Miserable sod, but a great musician. RIP.
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    Absolute legend - much copied, never bettered.

    Here come old flat top, gone like a coool breeze..
  • stonewallpenalty
    stonewallpenalty Posts: 3,842
    edited March 2017
    I have changed my mind about RIP threads. I now find them educational.

    Pulp Fiction is my connection.
  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,716
    Rip and thank you for bye bye Johnny
  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,052
    Condolences to Les

    #RIP
  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    RIP
  • CatAddick
    CatAddick Posts: 2,387
    Definition of the word 'icon'. RIP
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
    https://youtu.be/lNeEb7I3bwI
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,194
    Dad played him in the car along with Buddy Holly the most. I don't really care that I heard almost nothing but bad things about him, he was that good. Crazy to think the people he lived alongside and yet he was still with us.
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,976
    RIP
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  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,108
    Boy, could that little country boy play the guitar ... RIP Chuck Berry
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    RIP
  • SomervilleAddick
    SomervilleAddick Posts: 3,575
    I stumbled onto Chuck when my oldest brother moved to Australia and left his record collection and record player behind. It made an impression on a young mind that I'll never regret.
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,297
    Chuck Berry has left behind the greatest rock n roll legacy of any artist. His songs have been covered, copied and blatantly stolen.

    Never got to see him live but I've heard if he had to play 75 minutes, he'd play exactly 75 minutes, no more, no encores.

    RIP
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,291
    Surprised no-one's mentioned the tenuous Charlton connection yet (or are we too well behaved to sing that song these days?)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un59ZLOti9Y
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    RIP Chuck
    A legend saw him live at Granada Woolwich around about 1964 brillant
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    RIP Chuck
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,792
    Was in a Prog Rock band as a teenager - rather out of sync with the genre, such was his influence, we even did a cover of Johnny B. Goode. The riff is now part of my 14 year old son's catalogue.

    RIP Chuck and thanks for the music.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,682
    Remember getting my hands on the single 'No Particular Place to go' and the delight of finding the instrumental 'Liverpool Drive' on the b side. Wore out both sides of that single.

    RIP Chuck.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-YG1y1jqM8
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    RIP to one of the most inspirational guitarists of my younger days.
    Will take my guitar lessons in a new direction now.

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