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We just came from church
and �e�tar wanted to go to the parade,

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which took place at Tandy Park.

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And the guy was standing there under the tree.

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Thinking about him,
such a nice boy.

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The sun was right in his eyes,
and they were brown.

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he greeted me
but I didn't live anything.

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He asked if the cat put its tongue down.

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I resisted,
that my tongue is not in the hands of some cat.

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He said, "See,
I got rid of your tongue ties."

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“My name is Charles Berry.
Who are you?"

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I didn't live anything.
He also wants to know the name!

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He asked my name again.
"If the cat hasn't taken your tongue..."

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I then asked,
that my name is Themetta.

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"Themetta Themetta?"
I replied, "No, Themetta Suggs."

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After that we were together.

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When we had taken my �et�tre home,
he asked if I could come to hell.

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Of course I could!
I was of age.

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Let's go to bed.
I didn't know anything about him.

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It was love
from the first sight.

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So Charles and I on May 23, 1948
we got to know each other.

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We got married six months later.

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                                  He loved his father
                                   and his father loved him.

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Mother was in his eyes
the queen.

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Family was for me
always the most important.

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Home was our fortress
and he did everything to

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to take care of us.

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But I must add,
that when we met

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admitted Charles �les,
that he had been in a youth prison.

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When Chuck was 18,
they went to Hollywood with their friends.

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They ran out of money and were in big trouble
they robbed three gas stations.

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Returning to St. Louis
their car would break down.

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Someone offered to help them,
but he got scared and ran away.

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Chuck climbed
with your friend in his car,

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to hit Chuck's car with it.

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The police detained both cars.

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Chuck would be locked up for three years

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and went out on Sunday 21st.

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First prison sentence
and the criminal was ready.

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He started it back then
to the later hip-hop tradition.

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The first gangster!
Armed force!

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He robbed a couple of gas stations
and they drove a few cars.

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Horrible bastard. Juvenile delinquency
used before the term was coined.

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I couldn't decide
stay with him or break up.

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I met him because I believed
that I can help him.

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Charles didn't talk about it,
that he wants to be a musician or a singer.

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But he had the guitar
and he heard I like the blues.

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I said that my friend is playing
all the time blues and very well.

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He would go to my house
and started playing the blues there.

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Charles had at the time
a small guitar with three strings.

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He played, mine sang,
and from there everything went to the blues.

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That's when he really started
to do music.

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In school, it was my first
exemplified by Nat King Cole.

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He liked the clarity
Cole performed the words and music.

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My level was nowhere near that high,
but that didn't mean

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that he would not have imitated him
or he enjoyed the music.

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The guitarists I mainly listened to were
were Charlie Christian, T-Bone Walker.

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T-Bone Walker was in my sights
One of the first guitarist rock stars.

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He was the first to play behind the neck,
the Gibson ES-5.

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T-Bone's DNA is Chuck Berry
clearly perceptible in music.

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Used this stretch rep
grandfather always.

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He learned it from T-Bone Walker
and it is probably much older still,

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but grandpa made it popular.
It's very simple. It goes like this...

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One of the most recognizable licks.

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Chuck loved it
to play chords staccato.

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Chuck Berry used
the guitar essentially as a strumming instrument,

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like piano keys.

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At that time, most guitarists played
flowing and silky,

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                            but Chuck Berry rapped...

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He was like into the guitar world
Jerry Lee Lewis, kept spreading.

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Chuck Berry
in the form of blues to rocknroll.

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He was passionate about the blues
and later rock music.

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Background games
he has blues bands,

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but he showed speed and power
and took it into the space age.

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This Musicians Union card...
- I got it in 54.

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But whose name is here? - Mine,
but with N for the sake of conspiracy.

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Charles had begun
to play in blues clubs.

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He used it out of respect for his father
Berry instead of the name Berryn,

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that of the father's congregation
would not be thrown out.

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The kid makes the devil's music
and what else...

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They began to
that things could be much worse.

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After all, he was stuck as a teenager

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and they played
satan's music

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but compared to
that he killed people with a gun,

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then maybe the devil is not so bad.

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Finally, the church decided
that it's nothing

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as Berry's son
playing rocknroll.

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Once my saxophone player left
got sick and couldn't perform.

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I had heard Chuck, he was playing
nearby, at the Helf Garden club.

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I had her number
I asked him to come and replace me,

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and this thing lasted for 27 years.

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Let's go together
and we played this music.

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His style was something new for blacks,
because until now you were used to the blues,

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but suddenly Chuck came
open hillbilly style.

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And it went off like a Chinese firecracker!

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When the piano player starts
to play fast rock-style blues,

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so how does he start?

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Then you realize
that Johnnie Johnson's right-hand man

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has significantly influenced this riff.

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I started with
that I imitated pianists

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and I discovered that the guitar has
it is much easier to play.

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Chuck Berry offered me
that we should change the name of the band.

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Instead of the Johnnie Johnson Trio
could be the Chuck Berry Trio.

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I didn't mind

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because Chuck was the first
and knew more about music.

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I found that if he is the bandleader,
we can become more successful.

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Johnnie was a smart man
and didn't budge,

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that the band must
to be by his name,

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because Chuck obviously was
with a great future.

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Johnny was
great piano player,

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they worked and traveled together.

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I was just happy
to see him on stage

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where he did what he had practiced
and that's when he was on stage.

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Chuck Berry moved to Chicago.
He was a big Muddy Waters fan

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and he wanted Muddy there
See you at a local club.

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After the concert, he asked Muddy,
how to get a record deal.

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"With Leonard Chess,
Say Muddy sent."

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The next morning
he went there

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and my dad heard his demo tape.

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It seems that Chuck wanted first
as a blues player,

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because he chose the perfect one for the story
A blues song with a 12-bar structure,

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which was called "Wee Wee Hours".

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My father and uncle were
Polish immigrants,

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who came to Chicago
to look for a better life.

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Blacks who came to Chicago
were mostly from Mississippi,

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sometimes from Tennessee.
Millions came there for the same reason,

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hoping to find a better life
when they had lunch.

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Slavery was over,
but the attitude was the same.

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It could not be done in the southern states
a black person to earn a good salary.

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At that time, it was the home of the 1860s
forward in passive-aggressive form.

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Even after that,
when the northern states won at home,

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4,000 to 10,000 were recorded in the south
man, woman and child.

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And these people
who didn't know a note

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                                       invented rock
blues, hip hop.

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A different kind of people compared to them,
who studied Mozart and Beethoven.

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This music was full of fire and fury.

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We were close there
club Macomba Lounge.

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We lived a few blocks away
right on the edge of the ghetto.

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My father took me with him and we went
Through the door of the Macomba Lounge.

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Suddenly shots rang out,
my father threw me like a ball to my uncle,

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who pressed my leg against me.

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And there was a crowd
a page of leased alcohol.

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It has come to my mind
and I still hate the smell.

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My father entered the music business
in 1947

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and in 1950 he founded
record label Chess Records.

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Chess Records had many
important for musicians' careers.

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If there is general approval,
others have become famous with the label,

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it was very important to wash
under such a label.

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The first Chess Records office
was in the building,

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next to which was a printing house,
where mafia lottery tickets were produced.

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They were like notepads,
which was printed in Detroit and Chicago.

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But my memories start from the time,
when the address was 47-50 Cottage Grove,

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and I really liked everything there.
It was the best thing ever!

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I got a little older
also get to know the artists more.

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I had very close relationships
Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf,

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With Sonny Boy Williamson and Little Walter,
when he wasn't too busy.

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I went there with a recording,
which cost $79,

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and I let him because I didn't want to
Don't play guitar in front of people.

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He said he was fine,
but the words don't fit.

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She came there with the song "Ida Reid",
which was an old country song.

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The father told him,
that these new words must be written.

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He looked out the window,
there was a Maybelline Cosmetics sign,

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and decided that was the name of the song.

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Muddy Waters told him,
that if he wants to pass,

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let's write about it
what interests young people.

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He would go back to Saint Louis
and wrote Maybelline.

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And that's how it all started.

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When he wrote a new story,
he always asked my opinion.

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And I said that very good,
let's do this to the end.

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He liked it because he asked
record with tape, come back

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and promised to consider a recording contract.

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I asked when.
He said: "Yesterday!"

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We went there next Friday,

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we recorded on Saturday night
Maybelline, Wee Wee Hours,

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"Bring Much Monkey...". And I was
wrote these stories in the same week.

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"Bring Much Monkey Business",
probably also "Roll Over Beethoven".

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We made them
in less than six hours,

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although from "Maybelline"
we made 36 doubles.

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Rocknroll is also a musical river,
where several branches flow.

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Rrhythmnblues, jazz.

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Alan Freed had
east coast radio show,

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where he played all
what attracted him.

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So introduced by Alan Freed
Berry's music for white youth,

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who wouldn't be otherwise
heard anything like that.

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My father moved to New York
and signed with Alan Freed.

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It was a plug and Alan Freed
tagged as the author of "Maybelline".

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When the record came out, you were the authors
Russ Fratto, Alan Freed and myself.

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Who is Russ Fratto? He was a stationery
the store owner who supplied Leonard.

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At first it didn't bother me,

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but i didn't know
that it is also a financial loss.

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I know how to calculate and I can,
that I only get a third of the income.

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But "payola" bribery was the norm.

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Chuck himself wasn't
related to bribery,

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but the DJs took money,
to play your song and make it a hit.

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Record companies were hiring
"independent promoters",

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who secretly paid for the radios,
to play their records.

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"payola" was called for a serious plug
and everyone did.

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That's how everyone got rich back then.

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But Alan Freed was made a scapegoat
and he got everything under his belt.

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Are you for playing records
took a bribe?

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It isn't. - Never? - Never
and I will not comment further.

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I came to America
at the age of eight.

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There was Elvis, some other things
and then there was "race music".

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In that era in white stations
no black music was played.

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But the youth discovered that
and it's incredible how it spreads.

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Around the same time
transistor radios were invented.

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Radio and segregation
intact,

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because some stations
played black music.

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And every young person who, for example, is in a car
listened to the radio, changed stations

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and could end up on a black station.

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That's how we started listening to this music.

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I also found some of these stations,
I heard Chuck Berry.

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My body started moving!
I didn't know how to dance to it,

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but it was the only music
that set it in motion.

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He will definitely like this story
and I believe you too.

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The incomparable Chuck Berry!

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Everyone wanted "Maybelline".

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Alan Freed was relentlessly so
I waited until the thing went well.

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It became our first record,
which white youths bought.

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KATZ played "Maybelline"
and Amos Dotson was host.

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I sent him a thank you note for that,
that he played my husband's story.

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Car radios had buttons,
with which to select stations.

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Dad kept pressing them
and suddenly heard "Maybelline".

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And he said that we broke through.
I didn't understand.

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Howard Miller played
"Maybelline" in WIND,

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in the most popular white station
and during rush hour.

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Dad was so happy!

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When rock music started,
we had four big idols.

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Fats Domino, Little Richard,
Chuck Berry and of course Elvis.

228
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What girl wouldn't be
had a crush on Elvis.

229
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Look at him! The cutest boy,
who ever lived.

230
00:21:23.760 --> 00:21:26.200
And he shook his hips

231
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                                  and gave the impression that he
                                  there is something on the lips vi

232
00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:33.640
Elvis Presley was great
singer and entertainer.

233
00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:35.560
But did he write the story
"Johnny B. Goode"?

234
00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:37.160
He didn't write a single song.

235
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Elvis had the full package,

236
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which ensured his message was delivered
commercial success for the skill.

237
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Elvis could perform
at Detroit's Olympia Stadium,

238
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where chuck berry didn't go
although Chuck was more talented.

239
00:21:51.840 --> 00:21:56.360
Elvis wanted to be Chuck Berry
or, more broadly, a black bluesman.

240
00:21:56.600 --> 00:22:00.000
Who knows if he would
then became even more famous,

241
00:22:00.080 --> 00:22:03.320
but Chuck would be white
must have been more important.

242
00:22:03.600 --> 00:22:07.440
Chuck Berry was a gem.
A black man who wrote music.

243
00:22:13.600 --> 00:22:19.360
In the 50s it was like the Wild West,
a new area to invade.

244
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Young people were tired of orchestral music,
a smaller composition was wanted

245
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and a more energetic video.
Times changed.

246
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Young people came back from the world
and enjoyed a boom time. There was peace.

247
00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:41.600
He understood the new generation of whites.
At the heart of it was the car,

248
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because in that era teenagers became
steering wheel for the first time.

249
00:22:47.400 --> 00:22:53.360
He hit white culture so hard,
that you could write a poem about it.

250
00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:56.760
I'm thinking of Chuck Berry
especially as a poet.

251
00:22:56.840 --> 00:23:00.680
It was his divine gift.

252
00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:03.520
I want a yellow open De Ville,

253
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Continental spare tire
and with a chrome steering wheel,

254
00:23:06.560 --> 00:23:09.200
I want an air conditioner
automatic heating,

255
00:23:09.280 --> 00:23:11.240
folding bed as a back seat,

256
00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:14.880
radio, TV and telephone,

257
00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:18.520
to talk to a loved one,
how alone am I?

258
00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:21.080
He could in three minutes
tell the whole story.

259
00:23:21.160 --> 00:23:23.080
I didn't appreciate it when I was young,

260
00:23:23.240 --> 00:23:26.120
until I started the band
To do Chuck Berry songs.

261
00:23:26.280 --> 00:23:29.000
Only then did I realize
how clever his words are.

262
00:23:29.320 --> 00:23:32.960
Chuck knew very well,

263
00:23:33.280 --> 00:23:39.080
how to write gripping
and easy-to-understand words.

264
00:23:39.560 --> 00:23:43.560
In terms of management, he was different from others
of the black artists of the time.

265
00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:46.640
He didn't mumble,
the diction was clear.

266
00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:51.720
To the extent that when he in 1955
went on tour thanks to the success of "Maybelline",

267
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not many promoters knew
that he is African American.

268
00:23:56.280 --> 00:23:59.080
He marched into the club,
and it was given to him,

269
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that Chuck Berry is expected instead.
"But I'm Chuck Berry."

270
00:24:04.360 --> 00:24:06.840
He was sent from his own performances
go away He was thought to be white,

271
00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:09.560
but because he was black
he wasn't allowed in the club

272
00:24:09.640 --> 00:24:14.680
even though he had a concert contract.
It was so ugly and beautiful.

273
00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:20.560
Many radio stations did not want to
no more playing Chuck Berry.

274
00:24:21.080 --> 00:24:25.960
They didn't know he was black at first.
He was not seen on television

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and no one announced on the radio,
that Black Chuck Berry sings it.

276
00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:32.640
Thinking of Chuck Berry
I never thought about skin color.

277
00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:35.760
He was just the big Chuck Berry.
Chuck Berry was Chuck Berry.

278
00:24:35.880 --> 00:24:38.920
Definition of Chuck Berry
is Chuck Berry.

279
00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:41.160
Alan Freed once said,

280
00:24:41.240 --> 00:24:45.080
that he was thrown into the windows
bricks with �threats.

281
00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:48.400
I know the story.
- tried to scare away.

282
00:24:48.560 --> 00:24:52.960
Because he ignored the system.

283
00:24:54.360 --> 00:24:57.080
The southern states are not yet
dealt with this problem.

284
00:24:57.160 --> 00:25:01.800
They have never apologized
and did not admit that you were running like pigs.

285
00:25:04.120 --> 00:25:09.600
Alas! At the same time, all the bands in this area
played Chuck songs.

286
00:25:10.520 --> 00:25:13.200
There would be no Lynyrd Skynyrd
Chuck Berry doesn't exist.

287
00:25:13.760 --> 00:25:17.640
This period is often called
for good old times

288
00:25:17.920 --> 00:25:23.360
although for people like me
it might not have been so good.

289
00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:28.560
Despite this, he was able to write
sing about the brighter side of life.

290
00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:31.960
He was a storyteller,
who emphasized the words.

291
00:25:32.040 --> 00:25:36.480
And those words weren't exactly good
and as an example to others,

292
00:25:36.560 --> 00:25:42.000
just ranted
of a teenager as such.

293
00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:46.760
A young artist who wrote about
what everyone experienced and thought about.

294
00:25:46.920 --> 00:25:50.200
He chose what others did
I wanted to say, but I couldn't.

295
00:25:50.280 --> 00:25:52.120
He spoke for others.

296
00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:55.680
Basically, it can be said,
that Chuck Berry invented the "teenager."

297
00:25:55.840 --> 00:26:00.280
He documented it
a cultural phenomenon

298
00:26:00.760 --> 00:26:05.480
and gave it historical weight.

299
00:26:05.560 --> 00:26:08.520
He himself was no longer a teenager,

300
00:26:08.600 --> 00:26:12.680
but thought
his teenage years and experiences.

301
00:26:12.760 --> 00:26:17.040
Sometimes Leonard Chess put
play my disc faster

302
00:26:17.360 --> 00:26:20.080
and my voice sounded like a teenager.

303
00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:24.320
Everyone liked him because he was disruptive
hillbilly country feel,

304
00:26:24.560 --> 00:26:29.120
video, humor and descriptions
together with the blues.

305
00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:35.640
He has R'n'B influences,
country �nitte,

306
00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:40.760
if you add three chords to it
and play the game,

307
00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:42.880
the result is inevitable.

308
00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:46.360
I'm sure others did too
just like me when I was young

309
00:26:46.520 --> 00:26:49.640
when I heard a story
I stopped the car

310
00:26:49.840 --> 00:26:53.720
and I fell down dancing in the street,
because it was so powerful.

311
00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:57.440
He is the main man.

312
00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:01.040
If he couldn't think of any words,
he himself thought of a new way.

313
00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:04.000
“Stay away from me
your knowledge!"

314
00:27:04.120 --> 00:27:08.680
A game of Scrabble, I think
The word "botheration" would not go through.

315
00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:12.040
Another similar word
he had a "coolator".

316
00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:16.040
"Motorvating". You walk up the hill.

317
00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:19.720
All this tension was palpable,
you were very fast,

318
00:27:20.200 --> 00:27:23.840
you felt the wind ruffling your hair,
because the window is rolled down.

319
00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:27.840
"Motorvating to the hill."
He conveyed the lesson with his voice.

320
00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:34.000
It was a going away party
In September 1955.

321
00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:42.240
I invited Gleason to perform at the bar.
Here it is.

322
00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:47.760
Gleason's Bar,
August 15, 1955,

323
00:27:47.840 --> 00:27:51.080
Cleveland, Ohio,
the fee was $800 per week,

324
00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:54.800
it was before that
$21 per week at Cosmos

325
00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:59.880
and even earlier
$32 at Bar Frolic,

326
00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:02.400
$14 at Three Brothers,

327
00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:05.920
$60 for the entire band
in Green Dragon.

328
00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:08.360
Capitol Cocktail
only cost $50,

329
00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:11.600
but in Gleason
we got 800 per week.

330
00:28:13.080 --> 00:28:15.560
When he returned to St. Louis,

331
00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:20.000
he decided to the teenagers
to open a dance club.

332
00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:25.600
It was called Club Bandstand.

333
00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:31.760
He let the waitress open
wear an Indian costume.

334
00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:59.520
Rock'n'roll did the trick,
teenagers of different races interacted

335
00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:04.600
and so it was only natural,
that such a club existed.

336
00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:08.280
He needed a secretary
and I wanted to change my life.

337
00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:11.720
You just came
to listen to rocknroll.

338
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:16.080
We went to a Chuck Berry concert
and the next day I left the place.

339
00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:20.280
Fran became a teenager
Secretary of the Chuck Berry fan club.

340
00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:25.880
We went through with him.
He went out with Chuck to the end.

341
00:29:26.120 --> 00:29:30.640
He was very important.
The boys went on stage,

342
00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:36.880
and if the payment was made on the tickets,
he checked that they were paid.

343
00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:40.680
I was 21 years old,
I had only been here for a year

344
00:29:40.760 --> 00:29:43.320
and we had already opened a ��club.

345
00:29:43.840 --> 00:29:47.240
My band was with the police
the intricacies of the underworld.

346
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:54.000
Black guy �ritas Missouri
in the rural area to put it up!

347
00:29:54.760 --> 00:29:57.680
It didn't sit well with the locals.

348
00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:02.320
I don't know the exact reason
why was it closed

349
00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:07.240
but in general
there was a lot of envy in it.

350
00:30:07.960 --> 00:30:11.600
Unbelievable! In 1958, �rita
black person to do

351
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:15.600
and with your club
to bring different people together.

352
00:30:16.080 --> 00:30:20.600
But his club was simply closed.
It was a sad day.

353
00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:26.240
You mean "Maybelline",
which spoke of a young man with a guitar,

354
00:30:26.320 --> 00:30:29.040
who couldn't with his car
arrest the girl.

355
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:34.520
Chuck Berry has a new car
and the story "A Brand New Automobile."

356
00:31:05.760 --> 00:31:09.000
Chuck Berry was
incredibly good performer.

357
00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:12.760
First, he was
an exceptionally good guitarist,

358
00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:17.760
the man who made the guitar a star.
He played behind the back of the head, between the legs

359
00:31:17.840 --> 00:31:22.760
and invented the duck toe,
which is still attempted to be imitated.

360
00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:27.360
I said duck toe
to explore the background story,

361
00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:32.640
but then i saw
where did he get it.

362
00:31:32.800 --> 00:31:36.320
It was the movie "Duck Soup,"
the marx brothers.

363
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:39.800
Harpo and Groucho
They try to outwit eleven

364
00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:43.760
and at this moment it begins
Groucho to invent in the same way.

365
00:31:43.840 --> 00:31:46.720
I immediately understood
that's where Chuck snapped it.

366
00:31:46.800 --> 00:31:51.840
As a child I did it under the table,
it was entertainment for relatives.

367
00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:57.960
I did it for the first time on stage
at Paramount during the instrumental track,

368
00:31:58.120 --> 00:32:03.240
I got a huge ovation
and I decided to continue like this.

369
00:32:14.120 --> 00:32:17.880
They didn't like that he was black,
but they enjoyed his music.

370
00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:21.160
As a white person, he would be more popular with the people
liked. I heard it often.

371
00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:24.480
In that era, young people started
finally ask the parents,

372
00:32:24.840 --> 00:32:28.040
                                     why is �in society
                                     so cool.

373
00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:32.240
A clear line ran.
White on one side, black on the other.

374
00:32:33.480 --> 00:32:36.040
His five blacks
and white youth together,

375
00:32:36.280 --> 00:32:39.080
they jumped over the border
and danced together

376
00:32:39.320 --> 00:32:43.600
and separated the races
the seas fell apart.

377
00:32:44.600 --> 00:32:49.840
It helped that the young people themselves
in the clubs they crossed the line,

378
00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:56.200
because the new generation understood
that even though they had been asked to

379
00:32:56.600 --> 00:33:01.720
that there are differences between races
inseparable and should not mix,

380
00:33:02.080 --> 00:33:05.040
doesn't really matter much.

381
00:33:05.560 --> 00:33:08.000
                                 That's what music is.

382
00:33:08.280 --> 00:33:11.320
The way they had to
to navigate between racists,

383
00:33:11.520 --> 00:33:15.040
and that too in the United States,
where "all are created equal"...

384
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:19.280
It was still a total brain stick,

385
00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:23.520
if you have this great talent
but you face prejudice

386
00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:27.880
but instead,
to send everything a long way,

387
00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:32.080
you try to imagine instead,
how to apply your talent.

388
00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:37.600
Before Martin Luther King,
marches and the civil rights movement

389
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:41.760
kick Chuck Berry down the door,

390
00:33:42.120 --> 00:33:47.640
because so many white youth
suddenly heard black music

391
00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:51.560
and didn't think about it for a long time,
what it means.

392
00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:56.280
Maybe they didn't care
for the first time in a performer's life, skin color.

393
00:33:57.320 --> 00:34:02.360
Chuck Berry did everything smoothly
Without pointing fingers at society,

394
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:05.240
how dare you
treat us like that!

395
00:34:05.320 --> 00:34:07.920
We had to be here after all
to be the home of the brave and the free,

396
00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:09.800
but I'm not free yet.

397
00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:13.040
His music was too powerful,
to ignore it.

398
00:34:13.120 --> 00:34:17.560
A black man wrote stories,
to which the white girls danced,

399
00:34:17.680 --> 00:34:21.880
who made you scream
when he appeared on stage.

400
00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:24.640
Everyone was happy.

401
00:34:25.040 --> 00:34:29.360
                                     If he went here,
                                     you all came

402
00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:32.200
                                     if he went there
                                     I went after it again

403
00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:34.800
and finally whistles
                                      all back and forth

404
00:34:36.120 --> 00:34:41.480
Music brought people together
and they realized

405
00:34:42.680 --> 00:34:46.800
that nothing else matters
because they like the same music.

406
00:34:47.080 --> 00:34:49.560
And here he is - Chuck Berry!

407
00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:23.120
Every band has a story,
with which they are always associated.

408
00:35:24.640 --> 00:35:27.280
In the case of Chuck Berry, it is
"Johnny B. Goode".

409
00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.160
"Johnny B. Goode"
is like a mythological film.

410
00:35:30.240 --> 00:35:33.120
"This is the story of Johnny,
who kept the guitar in a dud bag."

411
00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:38.160
For North Americans:
In the lunch, the bags are kept in such bags.

412
00:35:38.720 --> 00:35:41.200
This is �ks
his best stories.

413
00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:44.320
A nice story about a guitar player.

414
00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:49.200
This story established,
what rock'n'roll should be.

415
00:35:52.520 --> 00:35:56.200
In 1958 there was another case,
which reflects that era.

416
00:35:56.600 --> 00:36:00.280
Chuck Berry did it
with Joanna Mathis

417
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:03.400
and the police arrested him.

418
00:36:03.720 --> 00:36:06.240
More specifically, the tire was broken

419
00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:09.320
and the policeman approached,
when Chuck put the spare tire down.

420
00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:12.120
The policeman searched the car,
found cash

421
00:36:12.200 --> 00:36:16.360
which was apparently an appearance fee,
and a pistol.

422
00:36:16.600 --> 00:36:21.200
Then the policeman started talking to the woman
after asking him to confess

423
00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:26.280
not staying in the car voluntarily,
but since it was not true,

424
00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:30.600
Joanna announced that everything is fine
and what exactly is the problem!

425
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:54.560
Chuck was arrested
for possession of a firearm.

426
00:36:54.640 --> 00:36:58.920
The matter did not go to court,
but he was picked on at every opportunity.

427
00:37:02.160 --> 00:37:06.960
Probably not, he was sure
the most important guitarist in rock history.

428
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:10.840
He had giant long fingers.

429
00:37:12.040 --> 00:37:17.280
He had strong hands and that helped
take out any note from him.

430
00:37:17.680 --> 00:37:24.600
Guitarists with big heads
always impress.

431
00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:29.480
His intros struck me from the first
moment, we called it a hook.

432
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:35.560
I told Chuck you have to
be a good hook or riff at first.

433
00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:39.720
Even from "Memphis" I will start
with a cool guitar sound,

434
00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:42.480
which Chuck didn't have in the front end there.

435
00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:14.640
He gives the impression that he wants to
call your girlfriend or wife,

436
00:38:14.720 --> 00:38:17.960
but in the end it comes out,
that Marie is only six years old.

437
00:38:18.640 --> 00:38:22.400
Clear! This is his daughter!
But a very awesome soap.

438
00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:40.240
When my father started going on tours,
he immediately bought his mother his first castle.

439
00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:03.080
This is another castle,
which my father bought for my mother and grandparents.

440
00:39:04.400 --> 00:39:09.000
It was in 1958 and the address is
13 in Windermere St Louis.

441
00:39:09.680 --> 00:39:14.400
He understood that real estate
is a very practical investment.

442
00:39:14.560 --> 00:39:17.760
It was a solid place, good value.

443
00:39:18.040 --> 00:39:21.240
He bought these houses for his family

444
00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:25.880
and never wanted to leave again.

445
00:39:26.520 --> 00:39:28.960
He kept expanding
your grip on real estate,

446
00:39:29.040 --> 00:39:30.920
because he kept buying more houses.

447
00:39:32.240 --> 00:39:35.240
Here was our playroom.

448
00:39:36.040 --> 00:39:39.240
But we also crawled under the stairs,

449
00:39:39.320 --> 00:39:42.800
as mother and father
got mad at us.

450
00:39:43.680 --> 00:39:48.040
His uncle Ed
had bought a house in Wentzville,

451
00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:52.040
The plot of land was in the mountains.

452
00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:59.760
Dad had a set of toy railways,

453
00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:02.840
which stood on the platform

454
00:40:03.200 --> 00:40:07.440
there were some trees here and there.

455
00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:10.800
I thought he was playing with it

456
00:40:11.040 --> 00:40:13.800
but didn't know
that he designed Berry Park.

457
00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:17.360
It was his dream. He wanted to see
how is it possible to develop it.

458
00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:20.200
It was our family's country home.

459
00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:24.200
He had boats, mopeds,
golf carts, motorcycles,

460
00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:29.080
bulldozers, tractors,
and it was all so cool!

461
00:40:29.560 --> 00:40:31.520
We could do anything.

462
00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:35.600
He was on a city bus
built by �mber as a tour bus.

463
00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:39.320
It was still in the garden,
when i was a teenager.

464
00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:42.960
We often climbed the bus to play,
we jerked the steering wheel.

465
00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:46.280
The bus was already rusting,
but it was cool to play.

466
00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:52.040
Berry Park was our heart.
It was a dream.

467
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:56.920
Charles had always wanted to
create an amusement park

468
00:40:57.120 --> 00:41:02.640
for fans, family,
for guests.

469
00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:12.800
There was a world in Berry Park
the first guitar-shaped pool.

470
00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:21.360
He wanted the park to be public,
people could eat there.

471
00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:31.720
This was to be our cottage,
a place to rest

472
00:41:32.040 --> 00:41:36.960
to see how the children
swimming and frolicking.

473
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:42.640
He built a club there with a stage,
which could accommodate 400 spectators.

474
00:41:42.720 --> 00:41:49.280
Charles decided he wanted there
 �ha to organize more concerts.

475
00:41:53.520 --> 00:41:58.040
By the mid-70s, there wasn't
the situation in Berry Park is no longer so bright.

476
00:41:58.120 --> 00:42:04.440
The 1974 edition was the third in the series.
The cycle forces were there.

477
00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:09.640
At that time they were hired
often as security guards.

478
00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:13.240
The keynote speaker was Leon Russell.

479
00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:16.680
He arrived by helicopter.

480
00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:23.240
He had no idea
that the promoter had not paid him.

481
00:42:24.640 --> 00:42:28.840
Suddenly, a helicopter
again and disappeared.

482
00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:35.200
The speakers were announced: thank you all for coming,
but Mr. Russell does not appear.

483
00:42:35.720 --> 00:42:40.680
The crowd would go mad. Angry
cyclists fell flat.

484
00:42:41.040 --> 00:42:45.920
The fans were there all weekend
been there, and there is no excuse!

485
00:42:46.080 --> 00:42:48.640
H�ving was quite large-scale.

486
00:42:49.640 --> 00:42:54.800
They all went their separate ways and the father decided
not to organize anything there anymore.

487
00:42:56.920 --> 00:43:00.200
There were rumors of drugs
consumption, drunk minors.

488
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:03.480
The police raided there.

489
00:43:03.760 --> 00:43:07.080
 �he shot at that moment
Become a security guard in the crowd.

490
00:43:07.240 --> 00:43:09.680
Two boys had gone to fight.

491
00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:11.680
Charles was bullied by the police,

492
00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:17.160
to the organization of rites
became impossible and he gave up.

493
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:24.040
Berry Park was closed to the public
and it became the seat of his company.

494
00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:27.280
He was disappointed.

495
00:43:28.040 --> 00:43:31.280
First of all, it wasn't his field.

496
00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:37.920
He didn't know the amusement park
about keeping something.

497
00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:42.920
Why did he let it fall apart?

498
00:43:43.040 --> 00:43:47.880
He just didn't want to
no more to do with it.

499
00:43:50.640 --> 00:43:53.520
He kept it for a while
more or less okay,

500
00:43:53.600 --> 00:43:56.360
looked so that the roofs would not fall through and so,
he still tried

501
00:43:56.440 --> 00:43:59.200
but over time everything collapses.

502
00:44:03.760 --> 00:44:08.560
At some point he decided,
that it helps him.

503
00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:11.960
He sometimes used the same wing
just as living quarters,

504
00:44:12.040 --> 00:44:15.360
otherwise lived in me
from their other houses.

505
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:18.760
But he stopped the development.

506
00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:23.120
He had so much money,
buried effort and energy there,

507
00:44:23.200 --> 00:44:27.640
that he had run out of time.

508
00:44:34.240 --> 00:44:39.040
It was his project.

509
00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:47.720
He thought it himself
outside on the third floor of our house.

510
00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:55.600
It was his dream
and yet it came to pass.

511
00:45:08.200 --> 00:45:11.240
Charles brought his wife with him,

512
00:45:11.320 --> 00:45:14.280
who claimed to be 21 years old.

513
00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:18.280
They had met
Arizona or New Mexico.

514
00:45:19.240 --> 00:45:22.280
Chuck brought him along
and took to the club.

515
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:26.920
She was an underage girl
brought to the state border,

516
00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:30.960
Because of the Mann Act
it was a federal crime.

517
00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:34.200
This law was not intended
to stop such violations,

518
00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:36.400
in which Chuck was shot,

519
00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:39.880
when he killed an underage girl
Come to the state border club.

520
00:45:40.520 --> 00:45:45.800
The girl is about 21 years old,
not 14 or 15.

521
00:45:46.720 --> 00:45:51.600
Already in the first session
the judge used the N-word in court.

522
00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:56.200
Even the white elite understood,
that things go sour

523
00:45:56.320 --> 00:46:01.920
this case must be closed
and submit a new configuration.

524
00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:07.040
But he was black, and because of the whites
and there was a commotion among the blacks,

525
00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:10.280
in the end he was still arrested.

526
00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:13.440
This would never have happened to white.

527
00:46:13.520 --> 00:46:17.880
He wouldn't have been presented with a letter,
out of prison.

528
00:46:18.760 --> 00:46:23.840
not possible
that an American prison does not change a person.

529
00:46:25.720 --> 00:46:30.840
He made mistakes, but the first stone
let him who is without sin throw it.

530
00:46:31.680 --> 00:46:34.920
However, he understood very well,
how badly it affected his career.

531
00:46:35.520 --> 00:46:38.160
Lost time cannot be regained.

532
00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:43.320
Who knows what else he would have achieved,
if it hadn't happened.

533
00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:49.760
He was our star,
from whom consecutive hits came.

534
00:46:50.040 --> 00:46:52.520
"Maybellene", "Schooldays",
"RocknRoll Music",

535
00:46:52.640 --> 00:46:57.000
"Sweet Little Sixteen".
But our star was locked up.

536
00:46:57.240 --> 00:46:59.440
We were in serious trouble.

537
00:46:59.520 --> 00:47:03.240
We released a record
"Chuck Berry on Stage",

538
00:47:03.440 --> 00:47:08.040
we added recorded in the studio
artificial applause for songs,

539
00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:12.800
to give the impression of a concert recording.
We released "Chuck Berry on Stage",

540
00:47:13.160 --> 00:47:16.520
to create the illusion of
that Chuck still exists.

541
00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:18.440
It was his "new record."

542
00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:27.800
Dad was good at any situation
find a solution and live on.

543
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:31.960
Nothing stopped him.

544
00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:38.760
When Chuck got out of prison,
he wanted to start immediately.

545
00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:42.160
He wanted desperately
continue the old life. Like all of us.

546
00:47:42.240 --> 00:47:44.520
He spent a week in Chicago

547
00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:48.280
and recorded the tracks “No Particular
Place to Go", "You Never Can Tell".

548
00:47:48.640 --> 00:47:53.240
"Nadine" was given her return
released as a single to celebrate.

549
00:48:05.160 --> 00:48:09.480
Started around 1960
Invasion of British bands.

550
00:48:09.960 --> 00:48:13.880
They were influenced by Muddy Waters,
Chuck Berry and Little Richard,

551
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:20.120
and they really conquered with music
America and the world.

552
00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:26.520
The Beatles did their own version
from the song "Roll Over Beethoven",

553
00:48:26.600 --> 00:48:31.640
The Rolling Stones' first song
was a cover of Chuck's "Come On".

554
00:48:32.080 --> 00:48:35.760
Another name for rocknroll
could be Chuck Berry.

555
00:48:36.040 --> 00:48:38.720
We all started
imitate their accent,

556
00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:43.080
were they from Liverpool or elsewhere,
but they played Berry songs!

557
00:48:43.160 --> 00:48:45.000
                    John Lennon's voice

558
00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:47.600
He wrote intelligent songs
in the 1950s,

559
00:48:47.720 --> 00:48:50.240
when others only sang of love,

560
00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:53.840
and inspired a whole generation
to put emphasis on words,

561
00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:56.720
instead of just babbling.

562
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:09.880
From the stories of Chuck Berry
I chose "Little Queenie",

563
00:49:10.200 --> 00:49:15.240
because when it comes to words, he's a complete wizard.
- He is a poet.

564
00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:21.840
Try to write such good words yourself.
It's not easy.

565
00:49:22.720 --> 00:49:25.320
I have tried.
Sometimes it comes, but not always.

566
00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:29.320
We've all tried.
He has become a poet.

567
00:49:30.240 --> 00:49:33.440
Before prison I served
1200 for a week.

568
00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:36.920
When I came back
and the Beatles had made it to America,

569
00:49:37.080 --> 00:49:40.040
increased my appearance fee to 2000.

570
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:44.000
They all recorded
Chuck Berry songs,

571
00:49:44.080 --> 00:49:47.360
because they were hooked
the DNA of the electric guitar.

572
00:49:48.520 --> 00:49:52.600
That Chuck Berry was with the law
frowned, made him even more tense.

573
00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:57.720
The Americans were
taken from British music,

574
00:49:57.800 --> 00:50:00.120
regardless of
where was it from?

575
00:50:00.200 --> 00:50:04.400
Many did not know that the Rolling Stones
played Chuck Berry songs.

576
00:50:05.080 --> 00:50:07.240
They didn't even know that
who was chuck berry.

577
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:09.040
We didn't even realize

578
00:50:09.120 --> 00:50:12.520
that the Beatles and the Stones told us
our own rhythmnblues.

579
00:50:13.720 --> 00:50:17.920
Thanks to that, we finally understood,
that our influencers were compatriots.

580
00:50:18.720 --> 00:50:22.680
We recorded in the legendary
at Chess Studios on Michigan Avenue.

581
00:50:23.960 --> 00:50:27.400
For us it was
a blues recording mecca.

582
00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:31.440
In the studio we met others,
who made records there.

583
00:50:31.520 --> 00:50:34.360
All our favorites.
Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry.

584
00:50:34.440 --> 00:50:37.240
If the Beatles, Stones, Dylan
and others discovered him,

585
00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:41.960
his career took off
and he became a human being,

586
00:50:42.080 --> 00:50:45.840
whom John Lennon and
Keith Richards bowed.

587
00:50:46.600 --> 00:50:49.960
Without Berry there would be the Beatles and the Stones
perhaps married,

588
00:50:50.040 --> 00:50:53.320
but they would have been different
bands. Because without Chuck's input...

589
00:50:59.920 --> 00:51:03.400
The Stones might have been there,
but the music would have been folky.

590
00:51:03.960 --> 00:51:07.240
You get your meat and potatoes,
but all that would have been tasteless.

591
00:51:08.080 --> 00:51:09.840
It would not have excited the taste buds.

592
00:51:11.080 --> 00:51:15.800
But Chuck was hot.
He didn't have to pretend, he just was.

593
00:51:16.720 --> 00:51:22.800
He understood that there were young Britons
a hero in his eyes.

594
00:51:23.840 --> 00:51:27.240
It was unbelievable what an effect
he had for all known stars.

595
00:51:28.440 --> 00:51:33.640
It's not just Chuck Berry who gets respected,
but also the Beatles, the Rolling Stones,

596
00:51:33.720 --> 00:51:37.160
Beach Boys, Bob Dylan,
Bruce Springsteen,

597
00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:41.640
and they all bow
Chuck Berry.

598
00:51:44.720 --> 00:51:49.000
Chuck Berry made a difference
significantly also touring.

599
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:51.960
He likes to do things his way.

600
00:51:52.120 --> 00:51:55.720
He wasn't on tour
a large staff or even a band.

601
00:51:56.200 --> 00:51:58.280
I have no luggage.
The guitar is already on the plane,

602
00:51:58.640 --> 00:52:00.800
but otherwise I only have
comb and toothbrush.

603
00:52:00.880 --> 00:52:05.280
Chuck wasn't messing around with his band,
but hired local musicians.

604
00:52:05.400 --> 00:52:08.680
He assumed that everyone could
anyway he told me.

605
00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:14.120
Took the guitar, got on the plane,
performed and came back home.

606
00:52:15.240 --> 00:52:18.080
He liked freedom
to do what he wanted

607
00:52:18.160 --> 00:52:23.000
without contracting him
connection with a permanent salary band.

608
00:52:23.240 --> 00:52:25.400
Chuck loved it
to show up on time.

609
00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:28.000
He wanted that b�nd
would be in shape for the concert,

610
00:52:28.080 --> 00:52:33.480
and if it didn't happen,
he started playing more and more.

611
00:52:34.040 --> 00:52:37.320
The reason was largely drinking.

612
00:52:37.600 --> 00:52:41.360
Bluesmen were drunkards.
Most of them still.

613
00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:45.880
Chess Records
was full of drunken bluesmen.

614
00:52:46.080 --> 00:52:49.520
You could feel it in your breath.
But Chuck wasn't that kind of guy.

615
00:54:01.720 --> 00:54:05.480
As he became more famous,
also showed up to the organizers,

616
00:54:05.560 --> 00:54:09.120
that he has to be paid
the best local players

617
00:54:09.200 --> 00:54:12.480
and they must be let
learn the stories from the disc.

618
00:54:12.560 --> 00:54:15.560
He only hired
employed musicians.

619
00:54:15.800 --> 00:54:18.360
"Three American Musicians
member of the Federation."

620
00:54:18.440 --> 00:54:20.480
That was the soul of the profession.

621
00:54:21.120 --> 00:54:23.720
Musicians who were talented
and knew his music.

622
00:54:23.800 --> 00:54:26.560
He didn't ask for much, but this,
what he asked for had to be there.

623
00:54:27.080 --> 00:54:30.400
If incorrect results were produced,
had to pay him a fine for it,

624
00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:32.720
because the execution came from his sound

625
00:54:32.840 --> 00:54:36.400
and without sound
he wouldn't sound like Chuck Berry.

626
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:41.160
Fender Dual Showman Reverb
is a rare exercise.

627
00:54:41.240 --> 00:54:44.400
Not even very good,
but he liked it because it was loud.

628
00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:48.960
The promoters gave him
$9,000 in a paper bag.

629
00:54:49.320 --> 00:54:53.360
He then announced,
that he had requested a different execution.

630
00:54:54.040 --> 00:54:57.880
Always had to have another thousand in my pocket,
because everyone knew he was saying it.

631
00:54:59.120 --> 00:55:02.720
10,000 had to be paid in total
and definitely in cash.

632
00:55:03.320 --> 00:55:09.200
He was beaten so many times that he would die
he showed the paper bag in front of the money

633
00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:12.720
and otherwise refused to go on stage.

634
00:55:14.680 --> 00:55:18.680
First, the money would go into the guitar case,
only then did he take out his guitar.

635
00:55:19.880 --> 00:55:23.960
It was his custom
and there was no other way.

636
00:55:24.680 --> 00:55:28.840
He didn't want to risk it,
that trusts the organizer,

637
00:55:28.920 --> 00:55:31.520
comes from the stage after the performance
and can't get money.

638
00:55:31.600 --> 00:55:33.840
imagine the
how many times did that happen to him.

639
00:55:33.920 --> 00:55:36.960
It was just his reaction
to shitty treatment.

640
00:55:45.840 --> 00:55:51.000
She had a handsome and sexy black man,
who liked white women.

641
00:55:51.640 --> 00:55:56.440
Chuck Berry's father was a carpenter,
who often worked in white neighborhoods

642
00:55:56.760 --> 00:56:00.400
and smaller
Chuck was with him.

643
00:56:01.120 --> 00:56:07.760
When there were white women in the house,
the father forbade the boy to look at them.

644
00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:12.400
Of course they did
even more exciting.

645
00:56:43.200 --> 00:56:47.040
He always had several white lovers.

646
00:56:49.040 --> 00:56:53.160
He discovered that if he had hits
and everyone likes him

647
00:56:53.320 --> 00:56:55.880
then he takes a white girl too!

648
00:56:56.640 --> 00:57:00.520
He tried to push the limits in everything.

649
00:57:02.120 --> 00:57:04.720
He liked it
which he liked. The whole story.

650
00:57:07.080 --> 00:57:11.440
But he loved his wife
and family. That was for sure.

651
00:57:11.920 --> 00:57:15.560
Although he liked them
white women too.

652
00:57:16.320 --> 00:57:22.200
Dad wasn't the only one. All rock stars
did so. That gets to the point.

653
00:57:23.680 --> 00:57:27.440
Chuck Berry was a role that
Charles Edward Anderson Berry played.

654
00:57:27.720 --> 00:57:30.360
It is important to realize this.

655
00:57:32.440 --> 00:57:36.040
My friend Charles
wasn't Chuck Berry.

656
00:57:36.120 --> 00:57:38.840
Chuck Berry was
a completely different person.

657
00:57:39.480 --> 00:57:42.560
Chuck Berry
never came to our house.

658
00:57:42.640 --> 00:57:46.640
We have it at home
Charles Edward Anderson Berry, my father.

659
00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:50.880
Whatever happened on tour,
that's what chuck berry did

660
00:57:51.200 --> 00:57:54.080
but it was always at home
our father, husband.

661
00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:57.600
He always left things elsewhere.

662
00:57:58.120 --> 00:58:03.480
When he came home he was a man,
whom I married in 1948.

663
00:58:04.360 --> 00:58:12.400
The whole rock star image
flew out of the window and the father of the family came home.

664
00:58:15.520 --> 00:58:17.640
He wanted to be paid in cash.

665
00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:20.800
Sometimes a book was written
and money was borrowed for him.

666
00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:24.040
It seemed to the tax office,
that he was paid twice.

667
00:58:24.560 --> 00:58:27.000
Someone gave him a bad look

668
00:58:27.080 --> 00:58:30.680
and he did not declare the money,
what he owed.

669
00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:34.560
If he with taxes
missed years later,

670
00:58:34.680 --> 00:58:38.480
he himself also admitted that he had made a stupid mistake.
And he would go to prison.

671
00:58:38.960 --> 00:58:45.640
From Willie Nelson and Jerry Lee Lewis
some things were confiscated,

672
00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:50.360
but the whites were not imprisoned.
But blacks were imprisoned.

673
00:58:50.760 --> 00:58:53.440
Go get it.

674
00:58:53.960 --> 00:58:59.400
Any problems encountered,
we still thought that we would live on it.

675
00:58:59.720 --> 00:59:01.920
And we lived.

676
00:59:02.000 --> 00:59:05.240
He told me that interesting
why the tax office did not survive,

677
00:59:05.400 --> 00:59:08.360
that he is some
a specific amount of debt.

678
00:59:08.520 --> 00:59:11.040
Charles lives in Missouri.

679
00:59:11.120 --> 00:59:15.120
He would have lived
in Los Angeles or New York,

680
00:59:15.200 --> 00:59:18.680
probably some kind of official
arrived,

681
00:59:18.760 --> 00:59:21.600
Lived to pay this amount
and the whole story.

682
00:59:22.360 --> 00:59:25.720
The Tax Office knows everything about me.

683
00:59:27.040 --> 00:59:30.600
Half of Charles's problems
were of his own making

684
00:59:30.680 --> 00:59:34.880
What happened was the anger of others.

685
00:59:36.040 --> 00:59:38.600
Chuck had to pay his debt
and was also imprisoned.

686
00:59:40.760 --> 00:59:44.520
Chuck performed for Jimmy Carter
In the White House three days before that,

687
00:59:44.880 --> 00:59:48.800
if he for tax evasion
was imprisoned again.

688
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:52.800
It was an important time in his life,

689
00:59:53.080 --> 00:59:57.240
and the fact that he
Imprisoned again for performing at the White House,

690
00:59:57.880 --> 01:00:02.400
didn't seem like an idiot.

691
01:00:18.520 --> 01:00:25.360
Ironically, he was the most famous story
silly little song "My Ding-a-Ling".

692
01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:32.000
Everyone went crazy about it.

693
01:00:32.080 --> 01:00:35.240
He didn't understand
why "Johnny B. Goode" or "Maybelline"

694
01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:38.960
did not reach the top of the ranking.
This story was random fooling around,

695
01:00:39.160 --> 01:00:43.720
but if the people liked it,
then we had to play.

696
01:00:45.240 --> 01:00:49.880
It was full entertainment.
He and Jerry Lee Lewis.

697
01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:52.760
The whole stage was full of them.

698
01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:04.120
Jerry Lee Lewis toured
Across the country with Chuck Berry!

699
01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:09.120
I had bottled Coca Cola
about that much gasoline.

700
01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:14.400
I skipped it,
gasoline flowed into the piano

701
01:01:15.240 --> 01:01:20.000
and I struck a match.
Where is the rest of the world!

702
01:01:21.240 --> 01:01:23.640
Chuck said,
that he must appear last.

703
01:01:23.720 --> 01:01:26.000
I told you to go down.

704
01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:30.040
They always argued about it,
which plays second as the main performer

705
01:01:30.120 --> 01:01:33.320
and thus is the biggest rock star.

706
01:01:33.440 --> 01:01:37.560
Chuck usually went on,
but because it irritated Jerry,

707
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:42.400
made to attract the audience
all kinds of pranks.

708
01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:46.520
Three, two, two...

709
01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:54.960
He was the only one alive
a person in the United States,

710
01:01:55.600 --> 01:02:01.320
whose song was on the space probe
which came out of the longitudinal system.

711
01:02:02.640 --> 01:02:08.040
Voyager has a gold plate on board
With earth sounds and music.

712
01:02:08.120 --> 01:02:12.040
Everyone wondered how
"Johnny B. Goode" ended up there.

713
01:02:12.120 --> 01:02:16.480
He replied to ask Carl Sagan
and from NASA, it was their choice.

714
01:02:17.080 --> 01:02:19.400
Maybe they like rock and roll.

715
01:02:19.640 --> 01:02:23.240
I would be surprised
than any living organism,

716
01:02:23.480 --> 01:02:29.320
in space or anywhere,
I wouldn't start dancing when I hear Chuck.

717
01:02:31.040 --> 01:02:33.760
When the aliens find it
and listen through

718
01:02:33.880 --> 01:02:37.040
they would probably think
that country people can be really cool.

719
01:02:39.760 --> 01:02:43.680
There were many things in his life and career,
that happened for the first time.

720
01:02:43.760 --> 01:02:48.040
He got Rocknroll first
Member of the Hall of Fame in 1986.

721
01:02:48.560 --> 01:02:50.600
Mr. Berry!
- Thank you!

722
01:02:53.720 --> 01:02:59.600
He was also the first songwriter,
who won the PEN Literary Award,

723
01:02:59.960 --> 01:03:04.200
which is given otherwise
for poets and writers.

724
01:03:04.280 --> 01:03:07.040
But why not
also for a songwriter?

725
01:03:07.120 --> 01:03:10.160
Berry and Leonard Cohen
were the first laureates.

726
01:03:10.240 --> 01:03:15.640
Of course, he also got his star
Los Angeles Walk of Fame.

727
01:03:15.880 --> 01:03:20.600
Many may not know
but to receive this award

728
01:03:20.720 --> 01:03:26.040
about 25,000 must be collected.

729
01:03:26.800 --> 01:03:30.240
Dad announced
that he is honored with this letter

730
01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:33.120
and he for that
Sometimes you won't save money.

731
01:03:33.240 --> 01:03:35.120
Just like Chuck Berry.

732
01:03:35.960 --> 01:03:41.520
In 1989, he became the first person
St.Louis Walk of Fame.

733
01:03:42.280 --> 01:03:47.840
In December 2000
received the Father Kennedy Center Award,

734
01:03:48.080 --> 01:03:52.560
gave it to him
President Bill Clinton.

735
01:03:56.240 --> 01:04:02.480
I was sitting in a club once and he asked
would I also like to come on stage?

736
01:04:02.680 --> 01:04:07.520
I have a chance with Chuck Berry
to play? Of course!

737
01:04:07.840 --> 01:04:11.160
He introduced me
and started playing a song,

738
01:04:11.560 --> 01:04:15.080
which I had not heard.
He didn't even live in the ring.

739
01:04:15.480 --> 01:04:19.560
I asked the keyboard player,
that which sound we are in.

740
01:04:19.680 --> 01:04:21.920
He didn't know either.

741
01:04:22.240 --> 01:04:24.320
I couldn't play anything.

742
01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:27.320
I don't know if he did it on purpose
to make a connection for me.

743
01:04:27.440 --> 01:04:31.640
Maybe he shot from the hip
and thought that we would just touch it.

744
01:04:31.760 --> 01:04:34.760
But at the same time there is a doubt,
that the white boy is on stage

745
01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:37.560
we turn it over to him
good shit with the first story.

746
01:04:37.840 --> 01:04:42.880
If he holds out, we will
to really play. Who knows...

747
01:04:43.800 --> 01:04:46.040
Chuck played in five chords.

748
01:04:46.240 --> 01:04:49.120
"�ks" was G, finger pointing down.

749
01:04:49.400 --> 01:04:53.320
E had three fingers,
which resembles the letter "E".

750
01:04:54.440 --> 01:04:56.040
Such was C.

751
01:04:56.440 --> 01:04:59.360
E-flat minor had two fingers
like a light bulb.

752
01:04:59.440 --> 01:05:02.000
Ask for the reason.
I don't know what it symbolizes.

753
01:05:02.360 --> 01:05:05.360
He played B-flat with his mouth.
And that was all.

754
01:05:06.480 --> 01:05:09.360
In the 1990s it was
Opening of the Hall of Fame.

755
01:05:09.440 --> 01:05:12.080
Bruce called
get your E Street Band together,

756
01:05:12.160 --> 01:05:15.280
there was me stevie
Bruce, Chrissie Hynde

757
01:05:15.400 --> 01:05:19.280
and by Chuck Berry
to come last to the finals.

758
01:05:19.640 --> 01:05:22.840
We tried to get together,
to play with Chuck.

759
01:05:22.960 --> 01:05:26.000
Chuck came on stage
and suddenly started playing.

760
01:05:26.080 --> 01:05:30.800
We had barely managed to collect ourselves,
we hung out with a very good band,

761
01:05:31.160 --> 01:05:33.600
there were six or seven guitarists on stage,

762
01:05:33.680 --> 01:05:36.720
as Chuck's side of the story
changed the sound system.

763
01:05:37.000 --> 01:05:39.840
At first I played here...

764
01:05:41.600 --> 01:05:43.880
And suddenly...

765
01:05:45.480 --> 01:05:47.680
He continued,
as if nothing happened

766
01:05:47.760 --> 01:05:50.480
but we all played
in the wrong phoneme.

767
01:05:50.760 --> 01:05:55.240
This happened many more times.
We looked at each other,

768
01:05:55.320 --> 01:05:59.160
we peeked at chuck
but no one dared to say anything to him.

769
01:05:59.240 --> 01:06:03.240
If asked,
what scale do we play,

770
01:06:03.320 --> 01:06:05.600
he would have replied
"Chuck Berry in Soundtrack".

771
01:06:05.680 --> 01:06:08.880
Then Chuck started towards us
look and smile

772
01:06:08.960 --> 01:06:12.440
and put on a big grin
to leave the stage with his duck head.

773
01:06:12.520 --> 01:06:15.200
It was the first time
when he looked at us.

774
01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:19.000
At the edge of the stage, he turned his back, ran down,
got into the car and drove away,

775
01:06:19.240 --> 01:06:21.560
leaving us in four different ones
to play in the sound system.

776
01:06:21.800 --> 01:06:25.960
Last time we played so terribly
maybe at the age of 13 in a youth club.

777
01:06:26.120 --> 01:06:29.520
But break so rudely
in front of the stadium crowd,

778
01:06:29.600 --> 01:06:33.000
where Chuck Berry was supposed to
to carry all this stuff...

779
01:06:33.720 --> 01:06:36.600
It's not the best memory.

780
01:06:37.120 --> 01:06:42.360
It was far from cool
To play with Chuck Berry. It was horrible!

781
01:06:42.960 --> 01:06:47.400
I got Chuck Berry
crossed arms playing in the background.

782
01:06:48.360 --> 01:06:53.200
I saw Chuck at the Hammersmith Odeon
and it was terrible.

783
01:06:54.080 --> 01:06:57.520
He didn't bother
to play full-length songs,

784
01:06:57.880 --> 01:07:01.600
but made �lejala potpourri out of them.
He was not sacked at all.

785
01:07:02.080 --> 01:07:04.920
I was disappointed because I wanted to
to hear stories in this form,

786
01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:07.600
as they sounded on the record,
but he didn't do that.

787
01:07:11.080 --> 01:07:14.240
This was followed by an incident
at Southern Air Restaurant.

788
01:07:14.680 --> 01:07:19.680
He was accused of
that he filmed women without their consent.

789
01:07:20.240 --> 01:07:22.640
He was years ago
bought this restaurant,

790
01:07:23.080 --> 01:07:27.120
because once refused
there to serve him.

791
01:07:27.440 --> 01:07:30.120
So he came back later
and bought it �ra.

792
01:07:30.200 --> 01:07:35.520
The plan was for him to have a restaurant,
maybe a bar

793
01:07:35.960 --> 01:07:39.480
anyway, a place where people
could play music.

794
01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:45.840
There was someone following the arrangement
put cameras in the toilet.

795
01:07:47.920 --> 01:07:52.000
It has an interesting story.
I have an affidavit from a person,

796
01:07:52.080 --> 01:07:55.080
who confirms
that he put those cameras there.

797
01:07:55.200 --> 01:07:58.560
But according to the arrangement
Charles was aware of this

798
01:07:58.760 --> 01:08:03.960
and secretly filmed women cheating.

799
01:08:05.040 --> 01:08:08.080
The camera was really there.
There is no question about that.

800
01:08:08.520 --> 01:08:10.560
The catch is,
that who put it there.

801
01:08:11.280 --> 01:08:13.560
The cameras were above the booths,

802
01:08:13.680 --> 01:08:17.080
because people often locked
themselves there and used drugs.

803
01:08:17.400 --> 01:08:20.960
To save it
the cameras were installed.

804
01:08:22.280 --> 01:08:25.640
But his house was broken into.

805
01:08:25.760 --> 01:08:30.640
Someone was deliberately looking for a coffin,
where she kept her photos

806
01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:33.920
there were also video cassettes,

807
01:08:34.120 --> 01:08:43.080
and set tapes and photos
to the Southern Air waste container.

808
01:08:45.720 --> 01:08:50.360
Vincent Huck's wife also worked there,
who had also been filmed.

809
01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:57.520
And no wonder! Vincent Huck
found these cassettes.

810
01:08:57.760 --> 01:09:00.120
Doesn't that look suspicious?

811
01:09:00.200 --> 01:09:07.520
Local officials bullied him
with all kinds of dirty words.

812
01:09:10.240 --> 01:09:14.240
Ron Boggs, the attorney who filed the suit,
and former prosecutor,

813
01:09:14.400 --> 01:09:20.840
had always held a grudge against Chuck.
She just didn't like Chuck.

814
01:09:21.480 --> 01:09:24.600
He was a local black man,
who flew too high.

815
01:09:25.040 --> 01:09:29.360
Action and judgments
reduced Chuck's income.

816
01:09:30.360 --> 01:09:34.280
People didn't want it because of it
order him to perform again

817
01:09:35.200 --> 01:09:41.880
and so it was decided to settle the matter by agreement
and move on with life.

818
01:09:45.960 --> 01:09:48.680
He was well hunted back then.
There was already a smell of blood in the water.

819
01:09:48.800 --> 01:09:51.680
But they didn't break him
as fast as you would like.

820
01:09:51.800 --> 01:09:55.280
Then Vincent Huck thought
let's talk about it,

821
01:09:55.360 --> 01:09:58.520
that Chuck is dealing in cocaine.

822
01:09:58.600 --> 01:10:02.600
He was supposed to be traveling
to leave the guitar somewhere,

823
01:10:02.680 --> 01:10:07.920
stack the suitcase full of cocaine
and bring all the stuff back.

824
01:10:08.240 --> 01:10:12.600
Ridiculous.
But the judicial system kept believing.

825
01:10:13.160 --> 01:10:17.680
The police showed the certificate,
that there are drugs in the house

826
01:10:17.880 --> 01:10:20.080
and he's a drug dealer and everything.

827
01:10:20.160 --> 01:10:23.560
The judge still believed
and issued a search warrant.

828
01:10:23.640 --> 01:10:25.280
The police searched Charles' house.

829
01:10:39.400 --> 01:10:44.200
There were narcotics agents
and local police officers.

830
01:10:44.520 --> 01:10:50.880
Of course, everyone had a ski mask
A mask and a gun are included.

831
01:11:23.360 --> 01:11:29.240
They found old joint cones
from parties in the 60s.

832
01:11:30.760 --> 01:11:34.240
Charles himself did not use drugs,
but the bones were put in a plastic bag,

833
01:11:34.440 --> 01:11:40.680
the papers were in the colors of the US flag,
these were not even produced anymore.

834
01:11:41.400 --> 01:11:45.480
200,000 in cash was also found there
and a couple or three guns.

835
01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:49.120
it was the Attorney General
Jim Martin an acquaintance of mine

836
01:11:49.200 --> 01:11:55.000
and he decided to return the money,
because the whole story was ridiculous.

837
01:11:55.760 --> 01:11:58.920
And the sheriff returned his guns,
which was kind of interesting

838
01:11:59.000 --> 01:12:03.240
because Chuck had been judicially punished
and were not allowed to own firearms.

839
01:12:03.400 --> 01:12:08.480
But they were still returned.
So this trip was complete.

840
01:12:10.200 --> 01:12:12.520
And was it about race?
Definitely real.

841
01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:19.600
I heard Chuck's music for the first time
in "Back to the Future".

842
01:12:35.880 --> 01:12:40.200
Chuck? Your cousin here.
Marvin Berry!

843
01:12:41.440 --> 01:12:45.080
You were looking for a new sound.
Listen to this!

844
01:12:49.440 --> 01:12:53.440
After that, I wanted it right away
guitar and skateboard.

845
01:12:53.920 --> 01:12:59.160
The only thing wrong with Back to the Future is that
that such a guitar or instrument,

846
01:12:59.240 --> 01:13:02.680
used by Michael J. Fox,
did not exist in 1955.

847
01:13:02.760 --> 01:13:04.560
A little creative exaggeration.

848
01:13:05.640 --> 01:13:08.600
The Gibson ES-355 went into production
only in 1958,

849
01:13:08.800 --> 01:13:11.920
that's how they got lucky with the DeLorean
rush back to the future

850
01:13:12.040 --> 01:13:16.440
and miraculously on the way
355 could also be taken along.

851
01:13:16.600 --> 01:13:19.560
I'm still looking for Marvin Berry.

852
01:13:31.640 --> 01:13:35.720
"Hail! Hail! RocknRoll"
introduced my generation to Berry,

853
01:13:35.800 --> 01:13:40.280
than Keith Richards
put this film together.

854
01:13:41.400 --> 01:13:45.360
This ticket booth
reminds me of something.

855
01:13:46.600 --> 01:13:51.560
I remember how I wanted to be here
to buy a ticket at the age of 11,

856
01:13:51.680 --> 01:13:54.680
to watch a movie
"A Tale of Two Cities".

857
01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:57.800
Dad suggested
because it was artistically up to par.

858
01:13:58.400 --> 01:14:04.400
But the ticket office was not good
to give me a ticket.

859
01:14:04.480 --> 01:14:08.600
"You know that people like you
don't come here! Go �ra!"

860
01:14:09.600 --> 01:14:12.560
Times have changed significantly.

861
01:14:17.160 --> 01:14:21.320
We have come a long way
compared to

862
01:14:21.680 --> 01:14:29.560
than my ancestors
here on the steps of the courthouse.

863
01:14:33.320 --> 01:14:38.200
We came to Berry Park
to give credit to a brilliant musician,

864
01:14:38.920 --> 01:14:43.400
but we found a conflicted genius
who caused us quite a lot of headaches.

865
01:14:43.480 --> 01:14:46.880
That's how Chuck Berry plays it.
Got it? - I can.

866
01:14:47.680 --> 01:14:51.680
I talked to him.
- But this story could be a little...

867
01:14:51.800 --> 01:14:55.800
I've been doing this for 60 years.
- I know. - Then get used to this idea.

868
01:14:56.680 --> 01:15:00.360
He was hotter than Mick Jagger,
but i still like him.

869
01:15:04.840 --> 01:15:06.880
The stretch starts here.

870
01:15:09.400 --> 01:15:12.680
You are stretching. Listen.

871
01:15:20.160 --> 01:15:22.160
You start from here.

872
01:15:27.560 --> 01:15:29.000
Great!

873
01:15:37.280 --> 01:15:42.160
That scene where the band argues

874
01:15:44.080 --> 01:15:47.800
and Chuck scolds Keith...

875
01:15:48.920 --> 01:15:52.720
99 percent of the audience doesn't understand,
what's the difference there. Little things.

876
01:15:53.440 --> 01:15:57.840
But when it gets worse,
then it turns out Chuck was right,

877
01:15:57.920 --> 01:16:00.560
and Keith probably
would admit it himself.

878
01:16:19.840 --> 01:16:22.560
Even then he realized
how important his legacy is

879
01:16:22.680 --> 01:16:25.640
but his attitude was quite bad.

880
01:16:25.720 --> 01:16:30.520
What about those English millionaires
rock stars think of themselves

881
01:16:30.640 --> 01:16:35.320
that they come to �deceive how
play my invented music!

882
01:16:36.040 --> 01:16:40.440
There were devils in his soul,
which was not expelled from there.

883
01:16:40.600 --> 01:16:43.240
He probably lied...

884
01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:47.640
Most of the time he was there
a man with an angry temper.

885
01:16:48.560 --> 01:16:52.160
What was happening behind the camera was just as exciting
than what went before the camera.

886
01:16:53.360 --> 01:16:59.800
Universal's lawyers suggested
Chuck to sign the contract.

887
01:17:00.480 --> 01:17:08.160
He sat down at the typewriter himself
and made a contract every day.

888
01:17:29.760 --> 01:17:33.480
Chuck Berry believes that everyone,
what is done to perform

889
01:17:33.800 --> 01:17:39.560
is classified as a piece and samples are not
just a show, but real work.

890
01:17:56.640 --> 01:18:01.200
Everything turned out nicely
and Taylor Hackford made a good movie.

891
01:18:14.240 --> 01:18:17.760
"Pulp Fiction" was another film,
which seemed unbelievable.

892
01:18:17.840 --> 01:18:21.200
What's going on? It is
grandpa's music!

893
01:18:21.280 --> 01:18:23.440
And then we watched.

894
01:18:24.280 --> 01:18:26.000
But if you think
how successful was this movie

895
01:18:26.120 --> 01:18:28.440
no wonder they chose this song.

896
01:18:28.560 --> 01:18:31.680
I heard it for the first time
In the twist scene from "Pulp Fiction".

897
01:18:31.760 --> 01:18:36.920
and fell in love with this song instantly.

898
01:18:38.320 --> 01:18:44.720
When we started the collection
to choose songs from the Chess catalog,

899
01:18:44.960 --> 01:18:48.960
wouldn't it
possible without Chuck Berry.

900
01:18:49.440 --> 01:18:52.760
It was a teenage wedding,
old relatives wanted �nne.

901
01:18:53.040 --> 01:18:56.240
Clearly see that mademoiselle
was lovely to Pierre.

902
01:18:56.480 --> 01:19:00.240
He describes in many stories
life situations.

903
01:19:01.000 --> 01:19:06.160
Listening to "You Never Can Tell".
the fridge is full of ginger.

904
01:19:07.280 --> 01:19:14.280
Currently, the 16-year-olds live together for work
probably with junk food and soda.

905
01:19:15.040 --> 01:19:20.880
The way he talks
is universal and timeless.

906
01:19:40.760 --> 01:19:48.000
"When Pierre found work
and he made some money,

907
01:19:49.560 --> 01:19:55.400
"C'est la vie," cried the parents.
You never know."

908
01:20:03.200 --> 01:20:08.360
I also listened to the piano,
because he always did everything his own way.

909
01:20:09.320 --> 01:20:13.560
It's the same rhythm
like a guitar but...

910
01:20:14.200 --> 01:20:19.080
Johnnie Johnson was also smart.
He played the Viennese Waltz in the background.

911
01:20:59.200 --> 01:21:02.360
My first love
was Blueberry Hill.

912
01:21:02.920 --> 01:21:07.960
�hel �htul recalled
he early days of his career

913
01:21:09.040 --> 01:21:14.960
and said that he would like to do it again
to play in the same small clubs.

914
01:21:15.480 --> 01:21:17.840
We looked at each other
and we immediately decided

915
01:21:17.920 --> 01:21:19.920
that we will do it in Blueberry Hill �ra.

916
01:21:20.120 --> 01:21:25.800
We gave 290 concerts there.
Chuck loved it terribly.

917
01:21:27.720 --> 01:21:31.920
You were so close to people
the audience danced right in front of your face.

918
01:21:32.040 --> 01:21:35.240
Blueberry Hill Band
was dad's best band,

919
01:21:35.320 --> 01:21:37.920
because these men
you knew his music.

920
01:21:38.720 --> 01:21:42.840
Ingrid sang a duet with him,
performed a few blues songs himself.

921
01:21:50.240 --> 01:21:54.080
Charles Berry Jr
started playing at that time as well.

922
01:21:54.480 --> 01:21:59.040
He wanted the children to play with him.
It was important to him.

923
01:21:59.960 --> 01:22:04.640
Blueberry Hill every month,
always the same people, the same nation.

924
01:22:07.000 --> 01:22:12.520
Father could play in the world,

925
01:22:12.960 --> 01:22:18.720
but nothing compares to home
and Blueberry Hill was his home.

926
01:22:19.800 --> 01:22:23.400
As is Berry Park.

927
01:22:24.840 --> 01:22:29.320
Every time you come back from a trip,

928
01:22:31.160 --> 01:22:34.760
when you get to highway 70

929
01:22:35.200 --> 01:22:39.320
and you walk along Bucknor Row,
it was a heavenly feeling.

930
01:22:40.520 --> 01:22:42.440
We made it back home!

931
01:23:09.240 --> 01:23:13.880
His last album was the thing,
something he wanted to do for years.

932
01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:16.400
He did this work with love.

933
01:23:16.480 --> 01:23:18.560
It was quite a long undertaking

934
01:23:18.640 --> 01:23:21.440
and he did it piecemeal
as he saw fit.

935
01:23:22.040 --> 01:23:25.760
"Big Boys" is a Chuck Berry song,
which you instantly feel.

936
01:23:26.360 --> 01:23:29.400
These riffs, this outgoing rhythm.

937
01:23:29.960 --> 01:23:35.440
It sounds like a Chuck Berry song,
that you haven't heard before.

938
01:23:35.880 --> 01:23:40.440
Such a pleasant feeling of recognition.

939
01:23:42.160 --> 01:23:49.280
Dad started these stories
to write in the 90s.

940
01:23:50.320 --> 01:23:55.320
In the studio rooms of the club
a fire broke out.

941
01:23:55.960 --> 01:23:59.600
Everyone liked his tapes.
After that we started from scratch.

942
01:24:08.800 --> 01:24:11.600
"Dutchman" was �ks
my favorite songs

943
01:24:11.680 --> 01:24:16.120
to call it a song
but what beautiful shapes!

944
01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:36.840
In 2015,
father's health worsened.

945
01:24:41.160 --> 01:24:44.400
I noticed that his songs
has become closer.

946
01:24:44.480 --> 01:24:47.160
Some stories were left out of the plan
and he never played them again.

947
01:24:47.240 --> 01:24:50.880
He changed over time
the repertoire becomes more and more stunted.

948
01:24:51.040 --> 01:24:54.680
The last song of the concert
we stretched it to 12 minutes.

949
01:24:55.040 --> 01:24:58.960
His hearing became worse,
although he did not admit it himself,

950
01:24:59.160 --> 01:25:03.840
therefore he often played
some story in the wrong phoneme

951
01:25:03.960 --> 01:25:06.880
and did not hear
that everything is wrong.

952
01:25:07.840 --> 01:25:11.360
He had his own stories
I don't remember the words.

953
01:25:11.760 --> 01:25:15.520
Together we solved it,
because I immediately left.

954
01:25:21.280 --> 01:25:24.360
If he didn't remember the song,
he mumbled something

955
01:25:25.040 --> 01:25:28.560
or was thinking something out of the blue
and the audience loved it.

956
01:25:29.360 --> 01:25:31.640
Towards the end, things got pretty crazy.

957
01:25:31.800 --> 01:25:35.840
The other day he asked
which phoneme is "Memphis".

958
01:25:36.160 --> 01:25:38.880
E-flat minor, I asked.
"But where is it?"

959
01:25:39.600 --> 01:25:42.280
He forgot �ra,
where it is located on the guitar neck.

960
01:25:42.520 --> 01:25:44.600
Nobody knows in advance
when will it happen.

961
01:25:44.720 --> 01:25:48.400
It is inevitable
and someday we will all leave here,

962
01:25:48.600 --> 01:25:52.040
but he felt
that his hour is near.

963
01:25:52.720 --> 01:25:55.080
It could have happened
a year, two or ten earlier,

964
01:25:55.160 --> 01:25:57.600
but it happened when it happened.

965
01:26:31.840 --> 01:26:36.680
On March 18, the world lost
a great musician and songwriter.

966
01:26:37.840 --> 01:26:40.880
On the same day, I lost
a cool friend.

967
01:26:41.400 --> 01:26:43.400
Rest in peace, Chuck.

968
01:26:43.480 --> 01:26:47.600
We remember him
rocknroll style

969
01:26:48.080 --> 01:26:52.360
and we also praise God
rocknroll style,

970
01:26:52.600 --> 01:26:56.200
so there is a happy night ahead.

971
01:26:59.520 --> 01:27:03.080
Both black and white youth
couldn't help myself

972
01:27:03.680 --> 01:27:09.200
got up and started dancing.

973
01:27:10.600 --> 01:27:14.120
It was the first time
in the history of our country.

974
01:27:14.840 --> 01:27:20.920
He changed the greater number
the life of white youth as a politician,

975
01:27:21.360 --> 01:27:26.880
purely by making them dance.

976
01:27:27.240 --> 01:27:31.920
He grabbed something,
be it outside or inside

977
01:27:32.040 --> 01:27:34.320
and he changed people's lives.

978
01:27:34.520 --> 01:27:37.400
Little about the fact that he changed our lives.

979
01:27:37.520 --> 01:27:42.840
He was the father of rock and roll.
It changed the world. Good time.

980
01:29:09.080 --> 01:29:12.960
Father was a poet and storyteller.

981
01:29:16.880 --> 01:29:18.960
Listen to this.

982
01:29:19.840 --> 01:29:23.800
Rushing back and forth
r�gan in the foundry.

983
01:29:24.640 --> 01:29:28.560
I never fail to impress,
but the bills are piling up.

984
01:30:15.840 --> 01:30:21.400
Too much shit,
to deal with it.

985
01:30:28.960 --> 01:30:31.600
I miss him.

986
01:30:33.480 --> 01:30:37.520
Too much shit,
to deal with it.

987
01:30:42.280 --> 01:30:48.000
Absolutely brilliant,
how he dissects the human soul.

988
01:30:54.440 --> 01:31:00.200
He was unique
poet and storyteller.

989
01:31:09.440 --> 01:31:11.600
He was the king of rock and roll.

990
01:31:11.840 --> 01:31:15.840
He was the first, so maybe
consider him its father, its king…

991
01:31:16.320 --> 01:31:19.760
He was the beginning of everything.

992
01:31:21.160 --> 01:31:23.320
He was the king of rock and roll.

993
01:31:23.400 --> 01:31:26.800
Little Richard...
Father and mother.

994
01:31:29.440 --> 01:31:33.040
Little Richard opened his mouth
and it was liberating.

995
01:31:33.440 --> 01:31:36.440
Like that sound in Hinduism,

996
01:31:37.040 --> 01:31:46.480
which led the world. "Om".

997
01:31:49.520 --> 01:31:55.920
Elvis Presley did
popularized rocknroll,

998
01:31:57.280 --> 01:32:01.760
but Chuck Berry was the king.

999
01:32:02.560 --> 01:32:06.960
He had everything.
He had both words and a guitar.

1000
01:32:07.440 --> 01:32:10.320
St. Louis loves
Chuck Berry so much

1001
01:32:10.560 --> 01:32:15.960
that we commissioned his sculpture
by the great Harry Weber.

1002
01:32:16.680 --> 01:32:22.240
in the middle of the square,
30 meters high,

1003
01:32:23.120 --> 01:32:27.480
stands his stone statue.

1004
01:32:29.000 --> 01:32:35.600
And when the king was standing there
and looked at his name carved in stone,

1005
01:32:37.640 --> 01:32:41.760
he thought to himself:
"What is fame?"

1006
01:32:43.000 --> 01:32:48.160
Fame is just a slow burn
and over time that too will disappear.

1007
01:32:49.560 --> 01:32:53.720
I asked Chuck,
that I haven't talked about it before,

1008
01:32:54.000 --> 01:32:58.600
but in 1955 he changed my life.
I just bought a new bike.

1009
01:32:58.720 --> 01:33:03.680
It was the first time
when we served properly.

1010
01:33:04.040 --> 01:33:09.320
He took my hand and said,
that his life changed in the same way.

1011
01:33:10.240 --> 01:33:12.200
We had exactly the same experience.

1012
01:33:12.280 --> 01:33:17.000
Both of our lives changed
in 1955 thanks to this story.

1013
01:33:17.400 --> 01:33:22.080
Themetta was the only one that Chuck was into
romantic and sentimental attitude.

1014
01:33:22.560 --> 01:33:28.880
The feeling between them
is completely indescribable.

1015
01:33:29.600 --> 01:33:32.360
There was nothing he wasn't
made for my mother.

1016
01:33:32.560 --> 01:33:36.360
He always protected his mother
and was by his side.

1017
01:33:37.160 --> 01:33:41.800
We were raised in this spirit,
that if you got married, stay together.

1018
01:33:42.280 --> 01:33:44.040
We swore an oath.

1019
01:33:44.280 --> 01:33:47.240
we agreed
that when we get tired of each other,

1020
01:33:47.320 --> 01:33:50.160
then we'll talk directly.
But it never worked.

1021
01:33:50.520 --> 01:33:52.720
Death parted us.

1022
01:33:56.520 --> 01:34:00.160
The most beautiful woman you ever saw

1023
01:34:01.120 --> 01:34:04.840
was a bride
whom he chose as his queen.

1024
01:34:07.200 --> 01:34:10.560
Head on the pillow of the matrimonial bed

1025
01:34:11.880 --> 01:34:15.720
he whispered into his bride's soul:

1026
01:34:17.720 --> 01:34:24.400
"Although there is no more beautiful breast,
what pressure against himself no man,

1027
01:34:26.560 --> 01:34:33.080
mortal flesh must become clay
and in time that too will disappear."

1028
01:34:53.400 --> 01:34:57.520
Chuck and Themetta
were married for 69 years.

1029
01:35:01.880 --> 01:35:07.240
Chuck passed away on March 18, 2017
as the king of rocknroll.

1030
01:35:07.400 --> 01:35:11.200
They left him
wife Themetta and four children,

1031
01:35:11.320 --> 01:35:15.680
Ingrid, Melody, Aloha and Charles Jr.

1032
01:35:17.840 --> 01:35:21.240
We got from space
four-word answer:

1033
01:35:21.480 --> 01:35:25.600
"Send more Chuck Berry!"

1034
01:35:32.000 --> 01:35:36.480
Chuck Berry!
And Bo Diddley.

1035
01:35:42.320 --> 01:35:46.320
Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley
for the first time together on stage!

1036
01:35:53.640 --> 01:36:00.040
Translated by Pearu Helenurm

1037
01:36:00.200 --> 01:36:01.960
01.01.2020