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On 6 August the father of rock, Chuck Berry, in Senigallia for the only European concert: "In 1955, threw new music and still are the best"
He is the author of Johnny B. Goode (400 including the official versions of the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix the Sex Pistols punk), Roll Over Beethoven Maybellene, the song weblog 1955 that turned a young black thug in dad's rock'n'roll. This in a nutshell the story of Chuck Berry, the man who dared to manipulate with his guitar textures conventional harmonic traveling to a new sound. Before him was a hybrid of the r'n'r melody, R & B, country, novelty songs, music with him spring the inhibitions, the electric guitar riffs with epileptic protagonist and solo ringing, his voice aggressive liberators shouting messages to teenagers. And then he had a way; grumpy and irascible as chameleon on stage, alluring and provocative, histrionic in playing on one leg or crossing the stage with his famous "goose step". John Lennon said: "The real name is Chuck Berry rock ', and if Berry did not invent rock, it is still the most popular symbol. For 83 years still on the scene, skinny, innocent hours murderess look now, but apparently one of the Aristocats continues to dominate the boards of half the world, despite all the rock is still 'his thing' and August 6 arrives at the Summer Jamboree in Senigallia (a festival of old rock and rockabilly world's largest) for its unique concert
How do you feel in 83 years the king of r'n'r?
"I formissima but not the king of nothing. I played the first music I heard in the air and came from the blues, then all say they inspired me and I quote, and I take note. "
There are many legends about its beginnings, tell us the truth.
I lived on the street and combined a lot of trouble, one day I picked up a guitar for a few dollars and I played like I got a shock. I wrote a song called rhythm country Ida Mae, I took her to the Chess and there the pace, attacking the amp and change the title to "Maybellene. So everything started. "
She was the first rocker to write lyrics and music.
"The music comes from my soul, the texts from the experience. By Johnny B. Goode singing the story of country boy who migrates to the city, in Roll Over Beethoven remember the days when as a child, I was forced to listen to my sisters who played the piano while I run to put the pennies in the jukebox. "
Then you have the whites stole the show. What do you think of Elvis and company?
"The blues is the real music of blacks, but the rock is a mix of blues and country and everyone is free to interpret it differently. Elvis was very different from me, more melodic, but I do not care of others, I think to myself. "
Someone has even inspired.
"Make up your mind that all rock 'n' roll comes from the trumpet and singing of Louis Jordan. Before him was the music of old. Then comes T. Bone Walker who invented all the tricks with the guitar and even played with his teeth decades before Hendrix, who just happens to have imitated my Johnny B. Goode. I also like Muddy Waters, but my favorite guitarist is me. I have done alone and I never changed the street. "
She is very hard on everyone.
"Nobody gave me anything, everything I have I earned. Many have tried to fool me by the color of my skin. Now everyone knows that Chuck Berry will not play even if before an agreement was not paid until the last dollar. This is not cynicism, is self-defense. "
I imagine that the rock did not like today.
"I carry forward the spirit of the original rock, but the music is rejuvenated every day but the roots are always the same. Sooner or later you will hear their songs echoing something that reminds Roll Over Beethoven Sweet Little Sixteen. There are a lot of good bands today and I will celebrate by singing my song Hail Hail Roc'n 'Roll. "
So you are always better than everyone?
"I do not make comparisons but I have my world view. I played with the Rolling Stones and consider them a great modern rock band, I'm a classic.
But for a true rocker comes the moment to hang on a nail the guitar?
"Stop playing it as tire air I breathe. Time does not exist if there is health. Sound to the best of my ability, maybe not like when I was twenty, but I guarantee that the audience leaves happy from my concerts. "
That of August 6 at the Summer Jamboree will be the only European show.
"We want to be, then I'm finishing my new CD due out in late years because" rock "is just a word, we know little change in thought, vibration, life."
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