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Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry
by
Bruce Pegg
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...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
March 1st 2005
by Routledge
(first published 2002)
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Good Book. A little to much detail about court cases (and I'm a lawyer who is used to reading that stuff) The book presents a lot of anecdotes and second hand reports from newspapers and magazine articles about Chuck Berry. As the author notes in the acknowledgements, the book suffers some from no cooperation from the Berry family. I enjoyed the backstories about the recording of the classic songs, as well as the authors analysis of the meanings and significance of many of the legendary lyrics...more
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