Brown Eyed Handsome Man : The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry

ISBN-13: 9780415937511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str.

Bruce Pegg

Opis

Drawing on dozens of interviews and voluminous public records, Pegg paints a complete picture of this complicated figure. This biography uncovers the real Berry and provides a stirring, unvarnished portrait of both the man and the artist.

Recenzje

"Pegg's scholarship is tidy, his writing is clear and straightforward." -- The Los Angeles Times

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, Prologue: Grand Avenue, 1. The Ville, 2. De Sun Do Move, 3. Maybellene, 4. Breaking White, 5. Deliver Me from the Days of Old, 6. Windermere Place, 7. Club Bandstand, 8. The Mask, 9. St. Louis Blues, 10. Never Saw a Man So Changed, 11. Mercury Falling, 12. Back Home, 13. The Whole World Knows the Music, Nobody Knows the Man, 14. Wentzville and St. Charles, 15. Johnson vs Berry, Epilogue: Blueberry Hill, Discography, Notes, Works Cited, Index

O autorze

Bruce Pegg teaches in the writing program at Syracuse University. He has received numerous grants to research the life of Chuck Berry, and has spent several extended periods in St. Louis conducting interviews and doing archival research. He lives in Canastota, NY.