# RIP Chuck Berry **URL:** \ **Category:** The Arts\ **Created:** [18 March 2017 22:41 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rip-chuck-berry/2829 "2017-03-18T22:41:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lord-Duckhunter](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lord-duckhunter/32/144_2.png) [@Lord-Duckhunter](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Lord-Duckhunter)\ **Post date:** [18 March 2017 22:41 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rip-chuck-berry/2829/1 "2017-03-18T22:41:57Z")
One of the very greats. Rock n Roll just wouldn’t be what it is without the influence of Chuck. Genius ## [https://www.youtube.com/embed/2ykCYwhfdMs](https://www.youtube.com/embed/2ykCYwhfdMs) ---
**Author:** ![Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fatso/32/18_2.png) [@Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fatso)\ **Post date:** [18 March 2017 22:45 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rip-chuck-berry/2829/2 "2017-03-18T22:45:13Z")
RIP motherfucker ---
**Author:** ![steveintheforest](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/steveintheforest/32/135_2.png) [@steveintheforest](https://www.sotonians.com/u/steveintheforest)\ **Post date:** [18 March 2017 23:10 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rip-chuck-berry/2829/3 "2017-03-18T23:10:52Z")
Fuck, assumed he had died ages ago. He must of been about 100, he wasn’t even a youngster back in the 50’s !! A massive influence on guitar music and a complete bad ass cunt. RIP Chuck ---
**Author:** ![Lord-Duckhunter](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lord-duckhunter/32/144_2.png) [@Lord-Duckhunter](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Lord-Duckhunter)\ **Post date:** [18 March 2017 23:12 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rip-chuck-berry/2829/4 "2017-03-18T23:12:36Z")
This is a great clip. Chuck showing Keith Richards how to play Oh Carol & Keith looking like he’s gonna chin him. https://player.vimeo.com/video/18623223 ---
**Author:** ![Lord-Duckhunter](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lord-duckhunter/32/144_2.png) [@Lord-Duckhunter](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Lord-Duckhunter)\ **Post date:** [18 March 2017 23:25 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rip-chuck-berry/2829/5 "2017-03-18T23:25:30Z")
Went to see him in the 90’s and he was ancient then . The one & only gig I’ve ever been to with no encore. He did 40 mins of hit after hit before lights went on and he fucked off. Notorious for being tight & not going on stage until he was paid cash. Also never had a backing band, just hired a local one as it was cheaper. Jailed early in his career for taking a minor over state lines and as you say , a real bad ass ---
**Author:** ![Sadoldgit](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/sadoldgit/32/44_2.png) [@Sadoldgit](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Sadoldgit)\ **Post date:** [19 March 2017 00:09 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rip-chuck-berry/2829/6 "2017-03-19T00:09:32Z")
Invented the duck walk. Rock and roll owes him big time ---
**Author:** ![Polski\_Filip](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/polski_filip/32/75318_2.png) [@Polski\_Filip](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Polski_Filip)\ **Post date:** [19 March 2017 10:43 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rip-chuck-berry/2829/7 "2017-03-19T10:43:09Z")
Lucky enough to have seen the Legend when he opened the Original Hard Rock Cafe here almost 20 years ago. RIP ---
**Author:** ![Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fowllyd/32/74248_2.png) [@Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fowllyd)\ **Post date:** [19 March 2017 10:43 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rip-chuck-berry/2829/8 "2017-03-19T10:43:55Z")
Well worth a thread of his own. One of the absolute greats and, as Lord D says, rock and roll just wouldn’t have been the same without him. Apparently his notorious parsimony was largely a result of having been ripped off many times early in his career, though he may have always been a tight-fisted fucker. Here’s a favourite clip of mine - Sweet Little Sixteen live at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956, complete with a clarinet solo. Brilliantly atmospheric. [![]( "YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBAw-_oEW78) ---
**Author:** ![Lord-Duckhunter](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/lord-duckhunter/32/144_2.png) [@Lord-Duckhunter](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Lord-Duckhunter)\ **Post date:** [19 March 2017 14:02 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rip-chuck-berry/2829/9 "2017-03-19T14:02:50Z")
All the greats are getting old now. The Killers got to be next, he’s knocking on a bit.