One Dozen Berrys/Juke Box Hits - Chuck Berry

Advantages: Great rock 'n roll by a guitar legend
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...the listener a good idea of why this man's influence is still being felt today. Highlights Of The Album (This album is hard to highlight because all of the songs are great, so actually these are the "super" highlights!) Maybelline was Chuck Berry's first hit, and the start-stop framework of the song became a model that many future artists copied. Roll Over Beethoven was a tune that was covered by such diverse artists as The Beatles, Mountain, and Electric Light Orchestra, but no one has ever matched the throbbing, primal energy of the original version. Rock And Roll Music matched up wonderful lyrical imagery with the pulsating beat, while Reelin' & Rockin" was a tune that Chuck Berry improvised on in live performances--his lyrics were much more racy than anything the record industry would have allowed on a recording. Johnny B. Goode was... Read review

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Advantages: Funny and touching in equal measure
Disadvantages: The last page came too soon

...This book has just about everything; Exotic locations, Superstars of stage and screen and an insight into the strange world of song writing and performing. And believe me it does seem very strange indeed. Below is the description on the books cover which I will then describe more fully and in my own way. Rewind to 1988. Britain is in the grip of a phenomenon. Radios across the land blast out a new sound. The song is ?Stutter Rap?. The group ? Morris Minor and the Majors. The man behind the fake moustache ? Tony Hawks. Fast forward to the 21st century and Tony has left those heady music biz days behind. That cherished appearance on Top of the Pops is but a distant memory. These days music is just a hobby. That is until it is suggested that Tony is a One Hit Wonder. That he will never have a hit again. Ever. Really? Well we?ll see... Read review

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Advantages: Great Timeless Music
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..., and makes me feel that little bit better I love, and that pretty much sums up Rock ‘n Roll. So I have amounted a number of ‘Best of......’ collections over the years, such as Jerry Lee-Lewis, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Billy Haley, Little Richard, and soon Carl Perkins (the man behind ‘Blue Suede Shoes’), and although Little Richard may have created Rock ‘n Roll and Elivs may have dressed it up well, and they’ve all had great hit songs, in my opinion, Chuck’s the one who really made it. So Who Is Chuck Berry? Charles Edward Anderson Berry was born on the 18th October 1926 in San Jose, California, America, he learnt to play the guitar and was nearly 30 when he released his first single, and that was in 1955, previously, at the age of 18, he’d spent some time in prison, for armed robbery, later... Read review

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