The man has a book out, “Life”
And you thought Jay-Z wrote the blueprint.
NPR audio interview here. Amazon it here. Find about another Rock based books here.
On What Chuck Berry’s Music Meant To Him “To us in England and to people like Mick and myself, and many other people including Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, Chuck arrived [with] incredible lyrics and [an] incredible ‘devil-may-care’ attitude and great records. At the time, we were starving [for good music] in England. We only had two radio stations in the country. We didn’t have the dial-twisting. Everything you picked up was secondhand or in a juke joint or a coffee bar or something. And so music, when [people would] say, ‘Did you hear that? Did you hear that?’ — it wasn’t immediately available to you. You had to go search for music. That is what we were doing in England.”Interview Highlight (from the above NPR interview)
