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Pegg Bruce
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Titolo: |
Brown eyed handsome man : the life and hard times of Chuck Berry : an unauthorized biography / / Bruce Pegg
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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.: | 9910812778403321 |
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