Chuck BerryThe Great Twenty-Eight
Chuck Berry
The Great Twenty-Eight
Rolling Stone magazine said Chuck Berry was a folk singer for
teenagers. I guess he is,
I just quoted that to sound important. Berry, as you may know, is to rock
n' roll what your mother is to you. He is just that important, and "Johnny
B. Goode" is still one of my all-time favorites. I wrote a paper
my freshman
year titled "Racism in Robert Zemeckis Films," and as an example, I
pointed out that Marty McFly, a white man, taught Chuck Berry, a black
man, "Johnny B. Goode." Thus, rock n' roll, which has black roots but
turned white by Presley and others, have legitimate white roots by
stripping Berry of any connection to the birth of rock n' roll. There was
also Bubba and a couple of other examples I forgot. This was a complete
B.S. paper written late at night that completely fit in with the "Race,
Class and Gender in Film" class, but if you think about it, it is a startling
point.
Rating (out of five)
*****
Song List
Maybellene
30 Days
You Can't Catch Me
Too Much Monkey Business
Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
Roll Over Beethoven
Havana Moon
School Days
Rock and Roll Music
Oh Baby Doll
Reelin' & Rockin'
Sweet Little Sixteen
Johnny B. Goode
Around and Around
Carol
Beautiful Delilah
Memphis
Sweet Little Rock and Roller
Little Queenie
Almost Grown
Back in the USA
Let It Rock
Bye Bye Johnny
I'm Talking About You
Come On
Nadine
No Particular Place To Go
I Want to Be Your Driver