Brown eyed handsome man : the life and hard times of Chuck Berry : an unauthorized biography / / Bruce Pegg

• Autore: Pegg Bruce
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Disciplina: 345
• Soggetto topico: Rock musicians - United States
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Brown Eyed Handsome Man; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Grand Avenue; 1 The Ville; 2 ""De Sun Do Move""; 3 Maybellene; 4 Breaking White; 5 Deliver Me from the Days of Old; 6 Windermere Place; 7 Club Bandstand; 8 The Mask; 9 St. Louis Blues; 10 ""Never Saw a Man So Changed""; 11 Mercury Falling; 12 Back Home; 13 The Whole World Knows the Music, Nobody Knows the Man; 14 Wentzville and St. Charles; 15 Johnson v. Berry; Epilogue: Blueberry Hill; Discography; Notes; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry draws on dozens of interviews done by the author himself and voluminous public records to paint a complete picture of this complicated figure. This biography uncovers the real Berry and provides us with a stirring, unvarnished portrait of both the man and the artist. Berry has long been one of pop music's most enigmatic personalities. Growing up in a middle-class, black neighborhood in St. Louis, his first major hit song, ""Maybellene,"" was an adaptation of a white country song, wedded to a black-influenced beat
• Titolo autorizzato: Brown eyed handsome man
• ISBN: 1-135-35691-2; 0-415-93751-5; 0-203-95317-7; 1-135-35684-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790643003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II