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Author:	Bruce Pegg	Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN-10:	0415937515	Category:	Biography & Memoir
ISBN-13:	9780415937511		--
Format:	Softcover		--
Publication Year:	2005	Condition:	Good
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The story of Chuck Berry, whose early songs were minor masterpieces of poetry, and whose guitar playing was the touchstone for many youthful musicians who later became rock superstars, has been laced with controversy since he began his musical career in jail after being arrested for armed robbery. Bruce Pegg's scholarly biography takes us through the pioneering guitarist's early years and beyond, to his discovery in Chicago by Leonard Chess and his epoch-making string of hits, whose raw sound and simple, direct lyrics were an antidote to the ephemeral pop songs of the late 1950s. Pegg doesn't avoid such episodes as Berry's conviction for transporting a woman across state lines for immoral purposes, but he doesn't over-emphasize them, either, insightfully setting them in context with a wealth of background research. With its clear-eyed mix of musical detail and perceptive writing, BROWN EYED HANDSOME MAN is a worthy biography of one of the prime movers of rock & roll, an artist whose contribution to rock has endured despite his own human failings.
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Length:	318 pages
Height:	8.8 in.
Width:	5.8 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	16.0 oz.

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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. Thereafter came a string of brilliant songs celebrating teenage life in the '50s, including "School Day," "Johnny B. Goode," and "Sweet Little Sixteen." Berry's career rise was meteoric; but his fall came equally quickly, when his relations with an underage girl led to his conviction. It was not his first (nor his last) run in with the law. He scored his biggest hit in the early '70s with the comical (and some would say decidedly lightweight) song "My Ding-a-Ling. The following decades brought hundreds of nights of tours, with little attention from the recording industry. Bruce Pegg offers the definitive, though not always pretty, portrait of one of the greatest stars of rock and roll, a story that will appeal to all fans of American popular music.

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Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life And Hard Times Of Chuck Berry

Bruce Pegg

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Binding:	Paperback
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ISBN:	0415937515
Publication Date:	2005-03-30
Publisher:	Routledge

Pages:	318
Height:	0.9000 inches
Width:	5.6000 inches
Weight:	0.8000 pounds

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