1st Edition
Brown Eyed Handsome Man The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry
By Bruce Pegg
Copyright 2002
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry draws on dozens of interviews done by the author himself and voluminous public records to paint a complete picture of this complicated figure. This biography uncovers the real Berry and provides us with a stirring, unvarnished portrait of both the man and the artist. Berry has long been one of pop music's most enigmatic... Read more
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
Biography
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.
"Pegg's scholarship is tidy, his writing is clear and straightforward." -- The Los Angeles Times
