{"id":1671,"date":"2017-03-18T19:34:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T23:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2017-03-18T19:42:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T23:42:59","slug":"rip-chuck-berry-the-true-king-of-rock-and-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/03\/18\/rip-chuck-berry-the-true-king-of-rock-and-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Chuck Berry – The True King of Rock and Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is impossible to calculate what the world would sound like without Chuck Berry<\/a>. What would music be? What would a guitar solo sound like? The enormity of it can\u2019t really be parsed. Berry was a poet with words and sound. Take away the biggest hits, \u201cJohnny B. Goode,\u201d \u201cRoll Over Beethoven,\u201d \u201cRock & Roll Music,\u201d \u201cSweet Little Sixteen,\u201d and you\u2019d still have dozens of classics. His status as an innovator was established more than 60 years ago, and some of the most eloquent tributes to that are already thirty years, in the 1987 documentary Hail! Hail! Rock & Roll<\/em><\/a>. They come from Keith Richards, Bruce Springsteen, Jerry Lee Lewis, and several others. You should watch that, as soon as possible. <\/p>\n

The relationship between Berry and Richards in that film is especially amusing, particularly in a scene where Berry is dressing Richards down for not playing his part right. Richards looks sheepish in that scene, which is not something that probably happens a lot. Theirs was a complicated relationship, as evidenced by this clip from Conan.
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