domingo, 19 de março de 2017

Chuck Berry (1926-2017)

"Se você tentasse dar outro nome ao rock'n'roll, poderia chamá-lo de Chuck Berry" (John Lennon)
Desnecessário falar muito sobre essa lenda das artes do século XX, uma vez que basta ir aos sítios das principais publicações e lá encontrar inúmeros obituários, alguns enxutos, outros bem completos, dando a real dimensão dessa fera falecida no dia 18/3/2017 aos 90 anos de idade.
Vou pedir permissão apenas para juntar pequena resenha escrita, há alguns bons anos, para o sítio RateYourMusic.com acerca da excelente coletânea "The Great Twenty-Eight", desculpando-nos antecipadamente pelo mau inglês. Ao final, vídeo de Berry interpretando "Johnny B. Goode" no ano em que começava sua longa história, 1958.













Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight (1982)

I’ve recently watched a pop music documentary on TV, in which singer/songwriter Neil Sedaka talked about his method of writing songs in the fifties. He said he listened to hits of many countries, he tried to capture something common in them, put a name of a girl, a romantic lyric and the result would be a success!
I believe Chuck Berry also walked a similar way. Besides suggestions of Sedaka, the guitarist added names of cities, lyrics about cars and adult themes. 
Okay, okay! Charles Edward Berry was many steps beyond Neil, we must agree. This is because the urban blues influenced him; people as Willie DixonLafayette Leake and Otis Spann accompanied him; he recorded at “magic” Chess Records Studios that time: it would be impossible something’s gone wrong.
The Great Twenty-Eight: while you listening to it, each song that is rolling seems the best of all; changed the song, this is better; next song? You will consider it the best.
According to John Lennon“if we tried rename rock’ n’ roll, we could call it Chuck Berry. Who am I to disagree with him?



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