Chuck Berry dead at age 90
The missouri police department has confirmed the death of the Rock n Roll legend, Chuck Berry.
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The missouri police department has confirmed the death of the Rock n Roll legend, Chuck Berry.
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The man that invented The Duck Walk...
May God rest his soul. R.I.P.
Just heard the news, another music icon has sadly passed away. RIP Mr. Berry, rock and roll won't be the same without you.
RIP. I have no idea who he is, but my dad is really into that genre, so RIP anyway.
RIP. A real legend of the game. I imagine a lot of young people would have heard of him or at least have heard his music and of course people who have seen the movie Pulp Fiction. Oh yeah and chances are you've heard some of his stuff if you played Mafia 2.
Rest in peace Chuck, one of the first and biggest Rock 'n' Roll legends.
Is his new album still getting released? I don't know if it was finished, but he was going to release his first album with new music since 1979 later this year.
Rapist, paedophilic fucker. I only feel sympathy for those close to him. He can rot in hell.
Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.
Sounds like a conspiracy.
Never heard of him. Always sad to see anyone pass away though.
It's always sad when such Legends pass on. But I was almost positive he died before I was born. Guessing I must have confused him with one of The Buddy Holly Plane crash victims. RIP Mr. Johnny B. Good.
Well he was convicted for it and went to prison so that's unlikely.
Chuck Berry was an icon and pioneer for rock and roll, and his talent drawing all kinds of audiences despite being African-American in the mid-20th century just adds to his legendary status. Through his music he will never be forgotten.
Condolences to his cousin Marvin Berry and his other family.
Well, you can't always believe what the media tells you, they are not looking out for you.
A true legend...he helped shape early Rock and Roll. The sad fact about living legends...eventually they die. Wow 2017 being as big a dick as 2016.
Here's the entrance in history.com:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/chuck-berry-is-arrested-on-mann-act-charges-in-st-louis-missouri
And here's his mugshot:
Good enough evidence for you that it's not a media conspiracy?
I didn't say exactly that it wasn't true, I just think you put a little too much faith in whatever the media tells you.
In memory of Chuck Berry.
For my fellow users on here, here is the full article to that you referenced. And to all my fellow users on here, read the quoted article carefully, and then share your thoughts.
"On December 23, 1959, Chuck Berry is arrested in St. Louis, Missouri, on charges relating to his transportation of a 14-year-old girl across state lines for allegedly “immoral purposes.”
“Never saw a man so changed,” is how the great Carl Perkins described the experience of touring England in 1964 alongside Chuck Berry. “He had been an easygoing guy before, the kinda guy who’d jam in dressing rooms, sit and swap licks and jokes. [But] in England he was cold, real distant and bitter.” The “before” to which Perkins referred was the four-year period from 1956 to 1959, when Berry established his reputation as one of rock and roll’s founding fathers, not only turning out such classic hits as “Maybellene” and “Johnny B. Goode,” but also establishing the very template that nearly every rock and roll guitarist after him would follow. What had changed Chuck Berry, in Perkins’ opinion, was partly the long, hard grind of years and years of one-night-only live performances, but, as Perkins also said, “I figure it was mostly jail.” Between 1960 and 1963, the man who helped invent rock and roll spent 20 months in federal prison following his conviction on charges of violating the Mann Act.
The Mann Act is the common name for a piece of federal legislation originally known as the United States White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910. Though intended as a tool for cracking down on organized prostitution, the vague language of the Mann Act regarding the transportation of women for “immoral purposes” rendered its provisions broadly unenforceable. It has been selectively applied in various high-profile cases over time, however—most famously in Berry’s and in that of the heavyweight boxing great Jack Johnson.
In Berry’s case, the Mann Act charges stemmed from what Berry contended was his offer of legitimate employment in his St. Louis nightclub to a girl he had met in a bar in Juarez, Mexico. Three weeks after being fired from Berry’s nightclub, 14-year-old Janice Norine Escalanti took a different story to the St. Louis police, and Berry was arrested two days later, on this day in 1959.
Berry’s defense was not found credible by the all-male, all-white jury at his first trial, and he was convicted on March 11, 1960, and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. Although he would have his conviction vacated and a new trial ordered by a Federal Appeals Court in October 1960 due to disparaging racial comments made by the judge in his original trial, Berry would be convicted again on retrial in March 1961 and serve the better part of the next two years in prison."
But this isn't what the media told me, you can find all of the official information online. I didn't get this from the media, I got this from my friend who told me about it, and then I looked up the facts.
All I see is that he was found guilty twice in two trials. What are you trying to say?
Wrong singer. That was Jerry Lee Lewis.
Michael Jackson was found innocent, even though he was charged twice with molesting young boys.
There were many after the trial that thought he was guilty as sin, while others thought he was completely innocent.
So I was just curious to hear if anyone thought perhaps he might be innocent? That's all!
Whoops.