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If you were to try and give rock 'n' roll
another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.
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Right. In the 1950s,
a whole generation worshipped his music,
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and when you see him perform today,
past and present all come together...
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and the message is,
"Hail, hail, rock 'n' roll."
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Right on.
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♪ Mabellene
Why can't ya be true ♪
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♪ Oh, Mabellene ♪
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♪ Can't ya be true ♪
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♪ Started back doin'
the things you used to do ♪
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♪ As I was motorvatin'
over the hill ♪
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♪ Saw Mabellene
in a Coupe DE Ville ♪
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♪ Cadillac rollin'
on an open road ♪
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♪ Nothin' outrun my V-8 Ford ♪
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♪ Cadillac doin' about 95 ♪
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♪ Bumper to bumper
or side to side ♪
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♪ Mabellene
Can't ya be true ♪
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♪ Oh, Mabellene
Can't ya be true ♪
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♪ Ya started back doin'
the things you used to do ♪♪
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Oh!
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You know, the only song I ever
tried to sing of his is "Mabellene."
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I get far as the Cadillac
up on the hill and--
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And you let it go up the hill by itself.
No, it went.
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Whoa!
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I remember driving
by a place in Nashville.
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I must've been 16,
driving home from a date,
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and, um, "Mabellene"
was playing out--
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You could hear it coming out of the club,
you know, as we rolled by.
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And so we rolled down the window,
stopped and used to listen.
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He's the King of Rock 'n' Roll.
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My mama even said that.
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I said, "What about me, Mama?"
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She said, "Well, now, son,
you're ver-- you're different.
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You sing slow songs,
but Chuck Berry's rock 'n' roll."
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I said, "Why, all this time,
I thought I was."
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She said, "Well, your habits are
pretty good, but you're no Chuck Berry."
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My favorite song
with Chuck... is all of 'em.
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I like all of 'em!
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I-I've always-- Chuck,
really, to be truthful,
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not puttin' Bo down,
not puttin' Fats down,
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but if I didn't say this,
God knows I'd be lyin'.
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To the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob,
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my God that I love so much-- and I
keep Your Holy Sabbath every Saturday...
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from sunrise to sunset-- I must
say this: He's my favorite rock artist,
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and he always have been,
and I think that--
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I've never told
the world this, but...
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his rhythm is the only rhythm
that I can sing myself too.
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And it fits.
If I say anything about Chuck, Chuck is--
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If Chuck don't go up on stage,
I know it's gonna be really tough on me.
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Wow. So this is
what you wanted to see.
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This is it:
the Cosmopolitan Club.
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That's what 30 years
can do for ya.
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Gee, birthplace of "Mabellene."
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Okay.
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♪ Mabellene ♪
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♪ Why can't ya be true ♪
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Jesus. Look at this. Wow.
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Oh, man,
this breaks my heart.
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They must've had
a flood here or something.
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Mmm, look at this place.
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My beautiful Cosmopolitan,
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and many beautiful nights
as we had in here.
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Look at this.
This is something.
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It's a far cry from the way it was
when I was here back in '51, '52.
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Drew three to four hundred people every
weekend-- Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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Twenty-one dollars.
We were here for three years.
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Three years.
Johnnie Johnson Trio,
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until I took it over and it
got to be Chuck Berry Trio.
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Chuck Berry came to me and
asked me about changin' the name...
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from the Johnnie Johnson Trio
to the Chuck Berry Trio,
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which, uh-- which was
perfectly okay with me,
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because Chuck was more
of a go-getter and, uh,
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he seemed to know more
about the business than I did,
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and I figured with him as a leader we
would have more jobs and a better success.
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I had two day jobs.
I worked with my father...
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whenever I didn't have
anything else to do.
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But mainly when I started
working at the automobile plant,
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that's when the money
started comin' in: $91 a week.
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I was cuttin' pretty good too,
because I had a family, you know,
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and, uh, $21 here
and $91 there--
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A hundred dollars a week,
you can do pretty good.
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Music is--
was a sideline, you know.
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I was a carpenter
and a painter, you know.
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About a year after
I started working here,
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uh, I asked-- I'm in the painting business,
you know, fixing up.
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I had an idea about just putting the,
uh, ceilings in black.
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And, uh, as I painted them black,
I had the idea and went on on my own...
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to paint, uh, the top of it
real dark, dark blue in ovals.
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And then at the high point
of the oval,
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I just painted
a snow-capped mountain,
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and they went all around this, all around,
all the way around the building,
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excepting behind the bar
where the mirrors are.
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I got $450 for that,
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and compared
to $21 a weekend,
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that's like
six months of playing.
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That's the reason why I'll never let that,
uh, painting and decorating go.
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It's, uh, money.
Money in that.
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But there had to be
something that drove you towards...
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trying to make a life
as a professional musician.
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Oh, when the money got larger,
I'd put the paintbrush down,
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pick the pick up
and fiddle.
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Oh, yeah. It got bigger.
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As a matter of fact,
I left here...
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making $42 a night...
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and went straight to
Gleason's Bar in Cleveland...
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at $800 a week.
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It felt great.
When I showed my brother the contract,
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he said, "You mean
to tell me--
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Yeah, well,
that's the way it is."
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From then on, I found out that you
make more and more as the years go by.
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Oh, baby!
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That's what started me to
thinkin' that I could go professional,
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because the crowds we had on
the weekends were jam-packed.
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I said if I can do it here,
I can do it in Cleveland, do it in Miami.
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And when I went up to Chicago where
Leonard Chess and Chess records were,
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that was the launching
of my career.
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I went up there with a $79
recorder and played that, you know,
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'cause I'm not gonna play guitar
in front of a stranger.
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Well, he said, "It sounds good."
He was listening to the lyrics.
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And the name of the song,
I had it named "Ida Red,"
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not knowing that I couldn't name it
the same title of a song already out.
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And "Mabellene" sounds just like "Ida Red"
rhythmically, so I named it "Mabellene."
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And, uh, evidently
he liked it,
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because he told me to get the band and come
up and he'd consider a recording contract.
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I said, "When? Yesterday?"
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He said, "No.
Whenever you can."
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So the next Friday, when Johnnie
got off from his job, we went up there,
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and Saturday we recorded "Mabellene,"
"Wee, Wee Hours," "Too Much Monkey--"
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By the way, I had these songs
written during that week.
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"Too Much Monkey Business" and,
I think, "Roll Over, Beethoven."
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And, uh, we did all four of
them in less than six hours.
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"Mabellene" had 36 takes,
by the way. I remember.
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You wrote
four songs in one week?
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Oh, yeah. It wasn't too hard to write,
because I'd been making up songs--
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verses, that is-- on the
bandstand to other people's songs.
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I'd take my verses and put 'em to
the same rhythm and I was on my way.
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You know, poetry
is my blood flow.
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We're gonna hear some blues tonight...
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'Cause I'm sorry I left
the Cosmopolitan,
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but I'm glad
I made that money.
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It helped out quite a bit,
you know?
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♪ You know I was
livin' in St. Louis ♪
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♪ In the year of 1955 ♪
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♪ My mother didn't have
a big mansion ♪
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♪ Just a little
ol' country dive ♪
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♪ And my daddy
worked all week long ♪
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♪ Tryin' to keep us
six kids alive ♪
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♪ I was standin'
at Lambert Airport ♪
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♪ With this guitar
in my hand ♪
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♪ You know I had
a first-class ticket ♪
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♪ Destination Hollywoodland ♪
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♪ I'll be
in Hollywood, Mama ♪
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♪ Before the roosters
crow again ♪
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Wow!
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♪ Can't help it
but I love ♪
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♪ Sittin' here
and singin' to you ♪
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♪ I think that's the only
legitimate thing ♪
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♪ I ever learned to do ♪
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♪ Until I come
back here to Cosmo ♪
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♪ I'm gonna say so long
and good-bye to you ♪♪
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When I first took
the song to Leonard Chess,
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we recorded in Chess Studios.
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Naturally, I was the only writer,
because it came from Missouri...
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in a basement in my house.
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And when the record came out, it was
Russ Fratto and Alan Freed and Chuck Berry.
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You know, who are these guys,
you know?
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I knew Alan Freed.
I heard him on the radio.
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He was the disc jockey in
New York that played the record.
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Who is Russ Fratto?
He's-- He owns a stenography store--
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a stationery store next to-- who
supplied Leonard with his stationery.
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Uh, why they were on it
didn't matter to me.
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I didn't know that was
a split of the monies,
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but when I got my royalties,
I saw one third.
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Anybody can easily figure it out.
I'm good at mathematics.
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I was only-- I'm only getting
a third of this, you know.
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So that was in the days
of payola when, uh--
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when you did something for somebody,
you got a cut of whatever the issue was.
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Money-- You know, I'd sit up
all night lookin' at the contracts,
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you know, tryin' to figure out how I
was gonna make any money out of two--
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two--
No, half a cent per record.
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Half a cent?
Half a cent per record.
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We had to sell two records to make a penny.
Right.
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A record cost 59 cents, didn't it?
Yeah.
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Well, there were 58 other
pennies going somewhere. Uh-uh.
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I, uh-- Ooh, boy.
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Yeah, I majored in math.
I was lookin' at the other 58 cents.
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I majored in mouth.
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I was doin' the talkin' and no walkin'.
Didn't make nothin'.
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Couldn't even understand the contract.
I looked at it.
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All I wanted to see was "Little Richard." When
I saw that, I didn't even read the other part.
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You feel your
way when you don't know.
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Sometimes you step on rocks. Sometimes
you get your head bumped. But not twice.
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That's a smart man.
Don't let the same dog bite you twice.
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How ya doin', Chuck?
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Chuck's made a whole
new show business,
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doing things on the road
the Chuck Berry way.
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As a entertainer and as
a businessman/entertainer,
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he just does things
different than most people do.
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Chuck doesn't have a big entourage,
doesn't have a band with him.
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He likes to go by himself,
leaves the job by himself.
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You know, promoters offer limousines
and such, and he doesn't care.
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This is Chuck Berry, that's all.
This is just Chuck Berry doin' it his way.
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One-nighters, that's all
I ever do. One-nighters.
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Where's all your luggage?
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No luggage. Just a guitar
underneath.
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Comb, toothbrush--
that's it.
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That's the way I do it.
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You check your guitar
in baggage?
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Yeah, once
in about six months.
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After that, get a new one.
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Uh, deductible, you know.
Tools?
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Chuck has always
caught the imagination of the kids--
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not only the young black kids, but the white
kids, from the beginning of his career.
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He's been able to keep the old ones
and bring the new generation all the time.
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The 15-, 16-year-olds, as they come in,
as they hear Chuck on the oldies stations,
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like it, know it's good music
and just stay with it.
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He has always been going.
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The man is a natural guitar player.
He's a natural businessman.
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He feels it's a very important
part of his life and his career,
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and he takes care of it
very well.
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I think my first date
was $800 a week,
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and that was six nights,
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so it's about
from about $100 a night...
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to, uh, now I'm getting
blrlrl $1,000 a night,
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you see.
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How much?
Is that a secret? Oh, the I.R.S. knows.
226
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They know it straight now.
227
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Sure. No problem. Cute.
228
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How many
concerts do you do a year?
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Well, I'll just multiply
six by 12 months.
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Seventy to a hundred
at the most,
231
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and that's diminishing because
here I'm nearing 60, right?
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I've had what I call
extreme success...
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from what I contemplated
in my life,
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and, uh, I want to enjoy
a bit of it too.
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I want to go to some gigs,
go to some rock concerts...
236
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and sit there and,
"Hey, baby!
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Play that music, white boy!"
238
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When the contract reads X,
whatever it is,
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he'll be there doin' exactly
what the contract says.
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People try to help him,
try to guess for him,
241
00:16:49,717 --> 00:16:51,886
and that's how
trouble starts.
242
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That's part of the contract: that the
buyer has to supply a rock 'n' roll band.
243
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Uh, the only requirement is that
they know Chuck Berry's greatest hits.
244
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-Mr. Berry, good to meet you.
-Welcome to Columbus.
245
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Shall we go?
Let's go rock 'n' roll.
246
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-All right.
-Hey, Chuck!
247
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I met Chuck Berry once
when my manager said, "Gee,
248
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you're gonna open on a bill for
Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry."
249
00:17:17,746 --> 00:17:20,849
And we thought this was
"forget it," you know.
250
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I was 23 or 24, and these guys
were our heroes and--
251
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and, uh, so we're
real excited,
252
00:17:28,657 --> 00:17:31,727
and the guy says, "He's gonna get a
band that's gonna back Chuck Berry up."
253
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We said, "No, don't tell him--
Don't get one of the local bands.
254
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Tell him that we'll
back him up."
255
00:17:36,833 --> 00:17:41,938
I had-- I think my first album
might've just come out around that time.
256
00:17:41,971 --> 00:17:45,975
So we went down to Maryland.
We drove in from some overnight gig.
257
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I forget from where.
258
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We came out and played
about a half hour,
259
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which is generally the time
you were allotted in those days...
260
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if you were an opening act,
and we went over pretty good.
261
00:17:55,919 --> 00:17:58,055
We did all right.
262
00:17:58,088 --> 00:18:00,691
And then Jerry Lee came out,
and he did his set...
263
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and, you know, ended
standin' on the piano and,
264
00:18:03,861 --> 00:18:05,829
uh, no Chuck Berry, right?
265
00:18:05,863 --> 00:18:08,599
No. He's not there.
266
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So, it's about--
267
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I forget what time
it was supposed to go on,
268
00:18:14,172 --> 00:18:17,842
but it was gettin' very close to
the time he was supposed to go on.
269
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There's no sign of him.
The promoter's gettin' really nervous.
270
00:18:20,879 --> 00:18:23,882
He comes up to me
and he says, "Look,
271
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"go on back out there,
because Chuck Berry's not here.
272
00:18:26,918 --> 00:18:29,053
I don't think he's comin'."
273
00:18:29,087 --> 00:18:33,191
I said, "I'm not gonna go out there.
They're waitin' for Chuck Berry."
274
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And, uh, about five minutes
before the show...
275
00:18:37,229 --> 00:18:39,198
was timed to start,
276
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the back door opens,
and he comes in.
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He's by himself,
278
00:18:44,036 --> 00:18:47,807
and, uh, he's got
a guitar case.
279
00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:51,043
And that was it. I guess
he pulled up in his own car.
280
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Didn't have
anybody with him.
281
00:18:53,079 --> 00:18:55,648
And he walked--
kinda walked by me...
282
00:18:55,681 --> 00:18:57,784
and went straight
to the office...
283
00:18:57,818 --> 00:18:59,853
with the promoter,
you know?
284
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Where I guess the
rumor was--
285
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I think the rumor was
he would get 11 grand,
286
00:19:06,159 --> 00:19:10,130
and at the end of the night he'd give
a grand back if the band was okay...
287
00:19:10,163 --> 00:19:12,666
and if the equipment worked.
288
00:19:12,699 --> 00:19:15,135
I don't know if that's true,
but that's what we heard.
289
00:19:15,168 --> 00:19:17,704
So straight into the office,
290
00:19:17,737 --> 00:19:20,708
and then he comes--
walks out of the office...
291
00:19:20,741 --> 00:19:23,244
and he comes into the band's room,
you know.
292
00:19:23,277 --> 00:19:25,847
We said, "Well, great.
We're gonna go on."
293
00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,083
I said, "Well, Chuck.
Like, what-- What songs are we gonna do?"
294
00:19:29,117 --> 00:19:32,220
He says, "Well, we're gonna do
some Chuck Berry songs."
295
00:19:32,253 --> 00:19:34,255
That's all he says.
296
00:19:34,288 --> 00:19:39,093
So we go, "Okay."
We get out on stage.
297
00:19:39,127 --> 00:19:42,731
The crowd's goin' insane.
They can see him. He walks on,
298
00:19:42,765 --> 00:19:45,734
opens up the guitar case,
tunes the guitar.
299
00:19:45,768 --> 00:19:49,071
The lights are up.
The place is goin' nuts.
300
00:19:49,104 --> 00:19:52,908
And we're goin', like, you know,
"What are we gonna start with, Chuck?"
301
00:19:52,941 --> 00:19:56,111
And he's kinda not payin'
attention to us or not hearin' us.
302
00:19:56,145 --> 00:20:00,048
And then all I see is--
303
00:20:00,082 --> 00:20:02,685
That's it!
You know?
304
00:20:02,719 --> 00:20:04,888
And, like, the band
is like, "Yaahh!"
305
00:20:04,921 --> 00:20:07,690
We're in a state
of total panic.
306
00:20:07,724 --> 00:20:10,894
We're tryin' to figure out
what song are we playin'.
307
00:20:10,927 --> 00:20:14,898
Uh, what key is it in?
Chuck plays in a lot of strange keys...
308
00:20:14,931 --> 00:20:17,033
like B-flat, E-flat.
309
00:20:17,066 --> 00:20:22,472
And our bass player, who was-- He's kind
of the... historian of the band, you know?
310
00:20:22,505 --> 00:20:26,777
So everybody runs to him
and he has the right key, right?
311
00:20:26,811 --> 00:20:30,915
And so, uh, we pick up the key,
and we're doin' pretty good, I think.
312
00:20:30,948 --> 00:20:33,851
I forget what song it was.
Uh,
313
00:20:33,884 --> 00:20:35,953
but we're playin' away,
and the crowd's goin' nuts,
314
00:20:35,986 --> 00:20:40,758
and Chuck runs back and says,
"Play for that money, boys!"
315
00:20:40,791 --> 00:20:43,828
We forgot to tell him
we were doin' this for free.
316
00:20:43,861 --> 00:20:47,332
Anyway, the night ended, there
was a big brawl in front of the stage,
317
00:20:47,365 --> 00:20:50,335
and the lights came up
and I think his amp blew up.
318
00:20:50,368 --> 00:20:53,805
We're kind of-- I guess
we're doin' "Johnny B. Goode."
319
00:20:53,839 --> 00:20:57,342
♪♪ You know,
we're just playin' that rhythm.
320
00:20:57,375 --> 00:20:59,911
And he just kinda walked
to the side of the stage,
321
00:20:59,945 --> 00:21:02,981
packed his guitar in front
of the entire auditorium.
322
00:21:03,014 --> 00:21:04,983
They're goin' crazy.
323
00:21:05,016 --> 00:21:07,520
Then he waved,
and that was it.
324
00:21:07,553 --> 00:21:12,358
He walked out and walked
back into his car, and he was gone.
325
00:21:12,391 --> 00:21:14,927
I doubt that he'd
remember us, you know.
326
00:21:14,961 --> 00:21:20,099
We were probably-- We were another one of the
bands he was using on the road at the time.
327
00:21:20,133 --> 00:21:23,102
It was just the kind
of night that-- that--
328
00:21:23,136 --> 00:21:28,074
You know, when I'm 65 or 70,
and I got, you know, my grandkids.
329
00:21:28,107 --> 00:21:30,911
"Chuck Berry? Yeah,
I met Chuck Berry.
330
00:21:30,944 --> 00:21:34,848
Matter of fact,
I backed Chuck Berry up one night."
331
00:21:34,882 --> 00:21:36,850
"You did?"
"Yeah."
332
00:21:36,884 --> 00:21:39,853
You know, it's a story
you're always gonna tell.
333
00:21:39,887 --> 00:21:43,957
This is our cornerstone
we had placed in the fall of '57.
334
00:21:43,991 --> 00:21:46,293
At least, I wanted it
to be a cornerstone.
335
00:21:46,326 --> 00:21:49,129
When I bought it, I found out
it was a tombstone.
336
00:21:49,163 --> 00:21:54,302
Well, death of a cornfield
and birth of an amusement park.
337
00:21:54,335 --> 00:21:56,371
I wanted it to be
like Disneyland or Six Flags,
338
00:21:56,404 --> 00:21:59,974
but it turned out
to be One Flag.
339
00:22:00,008 --> 00:22:03,912
I really wanted to have
a great place for fishing.
340
00:22:03,945 --> 00:22:06,948
My father was a great fisherman,
and all the family's are great fishermen.
341
00:22:06,981 --> 00:22:09,350
So when we first started
improving this,
342
00:22:09,384 --> 00:22:13,956
this whole area here was just a valley,
a big valley,
343
00:22:13,989 --> 00:22:17,426
and we had the lake dug out
and filled up in about a year.
344
00:22:17,460 --> 00:22:22,431
And, uh, shortly after that,
we had festivals in the '60s.
345
00:22:22,465 --> 00:22:25,901
We had a festiv-- One of the
festivals had 40,000 people.
346
00:22:25,935 --> 00:22:28,270
Another one
had 60,000 people,
347
00:22:28,304 --> 00:22:31,173
and the whole park in a
sense is kind of like Hyde Park.
348
00:22:31,207 --> 00:22:33,342
I have never seen it,
actually.
349
00:22:33,375 --> 00:22:36,446
We just called it Hyde Park
in the suburbs of Missouri.
350
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,182
If you wanted to go,
you'd just come to Missouri.
351
00:22:39,216 --> 00:22:41,918
Come to Berry Park.
352
00:22:41,952 --> 00:22:45,889
Now, this is the barroom of the
clubhouse we had built here...
353
00:22:45,922 --> 00:22:48,325
in, uh-- During the '50s,
when I was touring...
354
00:22:48,358 --> 00:22:50,961
with all my colleagues
and everything,
355
00:22:50,994 --> 00:22:53,263
I wanted everybody
to come and see.
356
00:22:53,296 --> 00:22:56,367
I wanted everybody to come here,
from Laverne Baker to Elvis Presley,
357
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,903
the Everly Brothers--
you name it.
358
00:22:58,936 --> 00:23:04,142
And I think that, um, I--
Actually, in here,
359
00:23:04,175 --> 00:23:07,211
I predicted playing here...
360
00:23:07,245 --> 00:23:10,948
in my rockin'-chair years.
361
00:23:10,982 --> 00:23:15,219
And, um, here's where I could
settle down and do my thing.
362
00:23:15,253 --> 00:23:19,158
We didn't get off the ground with this,
'cause I was touring so fast.
363
00:23:19,191 --> 00:23:23,362
We were wonderin' now will it
ever be as I anticipated it to be.
364
00:23:23,395 --> 00:23:26,265
♪♪
365
00:23:29,034 --> 00:23:32,671
♪ Everything is wrong
since me and my baby parted ♪
366
00:23:32,704 --> 00:23:34,273
♪ All day long I'm barkin'
'cause I ♪
367
00:23:34,306 --> 00:23:36,008
♪ Couldn't get my car started ♪
368
00:23:36,041 --> 00:23:38,911
♪ Laid off from my job and can't
afford to check it ♪
369
00:23:38,944 --> 00:23:41,448
♪ I wish somebody'd come along
and run into it and wreck it ♪
370
00:23:41,481 --> 00:23:44,451
♪ Come on
Since my baby parted ♪
371
00:23:44,484 --> 00:23:47,987
♪ Come on
I can't get started ♪
372
00:23:48,021 --> 00:23:51,357
♪ Come on
I can't afford to check it ♪
373
00:23:51,391 --> 00:23:54,461
♪ I wish somebody'd come along
and run into it and wreck it ♪
374
00:23:54,494 --> 00:23:57,931
♪ Everything is wrong since
I been without ya ♪
375
00:23:57,964 --> 00:24:01,068
♪ Every night I lie awake
thinkin' about ya ♪
376
00:24:01,102 --> 00:24:04,338
♪ Every time the phone rings
Sounds like thunder ♪
377
00:24:04,371 --> 00:24:07,074
♪ Some stupid jerk tryin'
to reach another number ♪
378
00:24:07,108 --> 00:24:09,143
♪ Come on ♪
379
00:24:09,176 --> 00:24:11,378
♪ Since I been without ya
Come on ♪
380
00:24:11,412 --> 00:24:15,983
♪ Steady thinkin' about ya ♪
Steady thinkin' about ya Come on ♪
381
00:24:16,016 --> 00:24:18,419
♪ Tryin' to make ya see
that I belong to you ♪
382
00:24:18,452 --> 00:24:21,255
♪ And you belong to me
So come on ♪
383
00:24:24,059 --> 00:24:26,428
♪♪
384
00:24:36,571 --> 00:24:39,141
Yeah! What happens there?
Who needs an ending?
385
00:24:39,174 --> 00:24:41,476
I wanted to serve Chuck up
with a good band,
386
00:24:41,510 --> 00:24:44,012
'cause I never heard him
play in tune, you know.
387
00:24:44,045 --> 00:24:49,018
And I was-- I've been so disappointed with
Chuck Berry's live gigs for years and years...
388
00:24:49,051 --> 00:24:52,021
whenever I've seen him,
'cause he didn't give a damn.
389
00:24:52,054 --> 00:24:56,259
You know? And he just-- If he made
a mistake, he'd blame it on the band.
390
00:24:56,292 --> 00:24:59,762
I mean, and he'd just
wing it and get through,
391
00:24:59,796 --> 00:25:02,465
and he's got such
a powerful personality...
392
00:25:02,498 --> 00:25:04,500
that he's managed
to get away with it.
393
00:25:04,534 --> 00:25:08,472
I know everybody said that I was,
you know, mad to take the gig on,
394
00:25:08,505 --> 00:25:11,475
and no doubt they said it
to you too.
395
00:25:11,508 --> 00:25:14,478
But, um, so I ordered
the straitjacket,
396
00:25:14,511 --> 00:25:17,147
allowed six to eight weeks
for delivery...
397
00:25:17,181 --> 00:25:21,785
and, uh, if anybody was gonna do it,
I wanted it to be me.
398
00:25:21,819 --> 00:25:24,221
I'm not so much
a musical director, you know,
399
00:25:24,254 --> 00:25:26,256
as an S-and-M Director.
400
00:25:26,290 --> 00:25:28,426
It's, uh--
401
00:25:28,460 --> 00:25:33,264
Social and Musical Director's the polite
way-- It's the S-and-M Band, you know.
402
00:25:37,535 --> 00:25:41,306
What was it,
when you first heard Chuck Berry,
403
00:25:41,339 --> 00:25:43,374
that made you...
change your life?
404
00:25:48,580 --> 00:25:50,516
There's something
about the sound.
405
00:25:50,549 --> 00:25:54,420
Uh, the total--
406
00:25:54,453 --> 00:25:59,191
I don't even know if Chuck realizes
what he did. I don't think maybe he does.
407
00:25:59,225 --> 00:26:02,061
I mean, people sometimes
don't, you know.
408
00:26:02,094 --> 00:26:05,464
I mean, Michelangelo probably
thought he was third-rate too.
409
00:26:05,498 --> 00:26:10,269
But, um, it was
just such a total thing:
410
00:26:10,302 --> 00:26:13,173
the great sound,
the great rhythm.
411
00:26:13,206 --> 00:26:15,442
But on top of all that,
412
00:26:15,475 --> 00:26:19,613
such a great
total overall sound...
413
00:26:19,646 --> 00:26:22,315
came off the needle
on that record.
414
00:26:22,349 --> 00:26:26,319
You know, all of them. The first one,
I think, was "Johnny B. Goode."
415
00:26:26,353 --> 00:26:30,257
Uh--
416
00:26:30,290 --> 00:26:35,096
That-- That's when I knew
what I really wanted to do.
417
00:26:35,129 --> 00:26:37,298
You know? I didn't
have to make a living.
418
00:26:37,331 --> 00:26:40,568
I didn't dream I could make a living,
but I knew that's what I wanted to do.
419
00:26:40,601 --> 00:26:45,306
I would do it as a hobby even if I was an
accountant now or something, you know.
420
00:26:45,339 --> 00:26:49,544
Probably be better off.
421
00:26:49,577 --> 00:26:54,115
Leave the amp as I set it. That's my amp,
and I'm setting it the way I wish.
422
00:26:54,148 --> 00:26:56,318
Well-- -I'm
not speakin' to you.
423
00:26:56,351 --> 00:26:58,320
I'm answering your question.
424
00:26:58,353 --> 00:27:00,456
That's gonna have the sound
on the film, baby.
425
00:27:00,489 --> 00:27:03,192
I'm interested
in how it sounds here.
426
00:27:03,225 --> 00:27:06,395
It sounds the way
I wish it to sound.
427
00:27:06,428 --> 00:27:10,399
That's the way it's going to sound
if I am playing. If I am not playing--
428
00:27:10,432 --> 00:27:14,303
Turn it any way you want.
Check the tape out, Chuck.
429
00:27:14,336 --> 00:27:17,273
Why it was being done?
Well, don't touch my amp.
430
00:27:17,307 --> 00:27:19,742
You said it won't be done.
He said he didn't.
431
00:27:19,776 --> 00:27:24,614
-He said why it's being done.
-Why it's being done is because it's not recording well.
432
00:27:24,647 --> 00:27:27,450
Okay.
That's what's gonna end up on film.
433
00:27:27,484 --> 00:27:31,688
-Huh?
-That's the way it's gonna end up on film.
434
00:27:31,721 --> 00:27:36,392
If it winds up on the film, that's the way
Chuck Berry plays it. Ya understand?
435
00:27:36,426 --> 00:27:39,330
I understand about it.
I understand.
436
00:27:39,363 --> 00:27:41,932
-I was talking to anybody.
-You gotta live with it afterwards.
437
00:27:41,966 --> 00:27:44,702
I been living for sixty years with it!
I know that!
438
00:27:44,735 --> 00:27:49,173
Okay, then realize it! Is it gonna be
around after you're dead and gone?
439
00:27:49,206 --> 00:27:53,377
It ain't you and me. It's everybody.
Oh, well, I ain't dyin'.
440
00:27:53,410 --> 00:27:56,380
Go on, then, and sing
your song. Shit.
441
00:27:56,413 --> 00:28:01,186
I think he's
got a little worm in him.
442
00:28:01,219 --> 00:28:04,422
He's the only guy that's
hit me that I never got back.
443
00:28:04,456 --> 00:28:07,726
You know?
Maybe I'm savin' it.
444
00:28:07,759 --> 00:28:10,262
But,
um-- Tell me about that.
445
00:28:10,295 --> 00:28:13,398
Oh, it was in
a dressing room like this.
446
00:28:13,431 --> 00:28:16,401
He'd done a show in New York,
447
00:28:16,434 --> 00:28:19,805
and I went up to say hello,
and he was just leaving...
448
00:28:19,838 --> 00:28:22,308
with a little bit
of white tail.
449
00:28:22,341 --> 00:28:25,645
And, uh, I made the mistake of
tapping him on the shoulder, saying,
450
00:28:25,678 --> 00:28:29,315
"Hey, Chuck, don't rush off without
saying hello." Because I'd known him.
451
00:28:29,348 --> 00:28:31,484
I met him in '65,
first time.
452
00:28:31,517 --> 00:28:34,587
Yeah, and, uh,
453
00:28:34,620 --> 00:28:38,524
he just turned around and just
gave me a full shot right in the face.
454
00:28:38,558 --> 00:28:42,562
You know, boom.
I was very proud that I didn't go down.
455
00:28:42,595 --> 00:28:45,999
I don't know. Maybe he got
his fingers burnt earlier on...
456
00:28:46,033 --> 00:28:49,536
and decided to shut
the rest of the world out.
457
00:28:49,570 --> 00:28:52,506
I think since
he got out of jail,
458
00:28:52,539 --> 00:28:57,444
he came out with a chip on his shoulder
and, uh, I just tried to knock it off.
459
00:28:57,478 --> 00:28:59,446
I don't know
whether I did or not,
460
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:03,250
but, uh, I respect the man.
461
00:29:03,283 --> 00:29:07,455
Always will, you know,
for what he's done and also for myself.
462
00:29:07,489 --> 00:29:11,793
I've lived under the umbrella of
the Rolling Stones for 20-odd years.
463
00:29:11,826 --> 00:29:17,432
In a way, I'm in as totally
insulated a scene as maybe Chuck's.
464
00:29:17,465 --> 00:29:20,835
This must be one
of the most difficult gigs.
465
00:29:20,869 --> 00:29:23,738
If I can handle this,
I ain't worried about nothin' else.
466
00:29:26,475 --> 00:29:29,678
If you just-- If you sing it
and just play the rhythm,
467
00:29:29,712 --> 00:29:34,650
and I'll put the fills in,
uh-- in between those vocal lines.
468
00:29:34,683 --> 00:29:37,620
Say that again.
If you sing it and just play the rhythm--
469
00:29:37,653 --> 00:29:40,489
♪♪♪ Groove on out ♪
470
00:29:40,523 --> 00:29:44,527
Then I don't have to keep hoppin'
and tryin' to cover both ends.
471
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,630
I need the rhythm guitar, at least.
Okay.
472
00:29:47,663 --> 00:29:51,701
It would be too much, probably,
to sing and play the lead, fills as well.
473
00:29:51,735 --> 00:29:53,870
Well, it wasn't.
474
00:29:53,904 --> 00:29:57,340
Well, yeah, I mean, I don't mind,
but I'll play the rhythm...
475
00:29:57,374 --> 00:29:59,476
if you wanna--
if you wanna do the fills.
476
00:29:59,509 --> 00:30:01,545
It's only on
those two verses. I mean--
477
00:30:01,578 --> 00:30:03,647
♪ Groovin'
Climb into my machine ♪
478
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,483
♪ And you can groove on out ♪♪
Yeah, but...
479
00:30:06,516 --> 00:30:09,085
the stops and starts
is what we were lookin' for.
480
00:30:09,119 --> 00:30:14,892
Yeah. We got them as long
as-- as long as we have, uh--
481
00:30:14,926 --> 00:30:18,696
-And you're gonna play the solo, right?
-If he wants me to.
482
00:30:18,729 --> 00:30:20,898
Yeah, yeah.
We need that.
483
00:30:20,932 --> 00:30:23,401
I need that guitar.
484
00:30:23,434 --> 00:30:25,369
Here.
485
00:30:36,548 --> 00:30:39,451
♪♪
486
00:30:45,524 --> 00:30:47,893
That slur is
started right here.
487
00:30:49,895 --> 00:30:51,797
It starts on the upper one.
488
00:30:53,399 --> 00:30:55,635
Listen.
489
00:30:55,668 --> 00:30:57,871
♪♪All right.
490
00:31:00,673 --> 00:31:03,710
All right.
See, start with it all the way down there.
491
00:31:03,743 --> 00:31:06,813
I'm playing F.
492
00:31:06,846 --> 00:31:08,815
♪♪
493
00:31:08,848 --> 00:31:10,817
Perfect. Perfect.
494
00:31:10,850 --> 00:31:14,387
♪♪
495
00:31:16,524 --> 00:31:18,626
♪ Oh, girl
496
00:31:18,659 --> 00:31:20,761
♪ Don't let him
steal it away ♪
497
00:31:22,730 --> 00:31:27,535
♪ Gonna learn to dance if it
takes me all night and day ♪
498
00:31:33,474 --> 00:31:36,878
♪ Gonna learn to dance if it
takes me all night and day ♪
499
00:31:36,912 --> 00:31:39,748
♪♪
500
00:31:39,781 --> 00:31:42,017
-Yeah?
-And then--
501
00:31:42,050 --> 00:31:43,819
And then
there's another one.
502
00:31:49,891 --> 00:31:51,660
♪♪
503
00:31:54,896 --> 00:31:59,635
♪♪
504
00:32:03,673 --> 00:32:06,542
♪♪ You wanna get it right, let's get it right.
505
00:32:12,515 --> 00:32:14,750
♪♪
506
00:32:21,258 --> 00:32:25,596
♪♪
507
00:32:33,570 --> 00:32:35,506
♪♪
508
00:32:49,287 --> 00:32:51,723
Ya test it, Chuck?
509
00:32:52,824 --> 00:32:56,461
♪♪
510
00:33:00,064 --> 00:33:03,836
♪ Oh, don't let him
steal it away ♪
511
00:33:06,105 --> 00:33:09,708
♪ I'm gonna learn to dance
if it takes me night and day ♪
512
00:33:12,812 --> 00:33:15,815
♪ Come into my machine
so we can cruise on out ♪
513
00:33:19,051 --> 00:33:22,922
♪ I know a swingin' little joint
where we can jump and shout ♪
514
00:33:25,625 --> 00:33:27,294
♪ It's not too far
back off the highway ♪
515
00:33:27,327 --> 00:33:28,995
♪ Not so long a ride ♪
516
00:33:31,798 --> 00:33:33,600
♪ You park your car
right in the open ♪
517
00:33:33,633 --> 00:33:35,602
♪ You can walk inside ♪
518
00:33:37,904 --> 00:33:39,840
♪ A little sugar
takes your hat ♪
519
00:33:39,873 --> 00:33:41,675
♪ And you can
thank her, ma'am ♪
520
00:33:44,644 --> 00:33:48,015
♪ Every time you make the scene
you'll find the Georgia Jam ♪
521
00:33:57,692 --> 00:34:01,796
♪ Carol, don't let him
steal it away ♪
522
00:34:04,132 --> 00:34:08,537
♪ Gonna learn to dance if it
takes me night and day ♪
523
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,616
Yeah!
524
00:34:21,683 --> 00:34:23,619
Yeah!
525
00:34:26,221 --> 00:34:28,157
Hey!
526
00:34:30,026 --> 00:34:33,830
♪ Ya wanna hear some music
like the piano go play ♪
527
00:34:35,698 --> 00:34:37,667
♪ Hold tight
Put your foot ♪
528
00:34:37,700 --> 00:34:39,569
♪ Don't let her
carry it away ♪
529
00:34:42,906 --> 00:34:46,643
♪ Don't let the heat overcome me
if the music's too loud ♪
530
00:34:49,112 --> 00:34:52,116
♪ Don't the music get tricky
when the drummer get proud ♪
531
00:34:55,653 --> 00:34:59,123
♪ Y'all can't dance
I know ya wish ya could ♪
532
00:35:01,992 --> 00:35:04,995
♪ Sock it to 'em, Keith
Make 'em really feel good ♪
533
00:35:10,901 --> 00:35:13,638
Yeah! Yeah!
534
00:35:15,874 --> 00:35:18,643
♪ Oh, don't let him
steal it away ♪
535
00:35:21,179 --> 00:35:25,684
♪ Gonna learn to dance if it
takes me night and day ♪
536
00:35:26,885 --> 00:35:28,920
Blow! Blow!
537
00:35:32,057 --> 00:35:34,894
Yeah! Yeah, yeah!
538
00:35:36,162 --> 00:35:38,631
♪ Steal it away ♪
539
00:35:40,466 --> 00:35:44,237
♪ Gonna learn to dance if it
takes me night and day ♪♪
540
00:35:54,147 --> 00:35:56,783
All right! All right!
541
00:35:56,817 --> 00:35:58,852
We came along,
the whole thing changed.
542
00:35:58,886 --> 00:36:01,221
All of a sudden,
we became a no-no.
543
00:36:01,255 --> 00:36:04,458
What is this?
This is devil music.
544
00:36:04,491 --> 00:36:08,862
And Elvis, he asked me-- He says, "Do
you think I'm playin' the devil's music?"
545
00:36:08,896 --> 00:36:13,934
"The hell.
You are the devil, boy."
546
00:36:13,967 --> 00:36:17,137
We couldn't get records
played on the radio,
547
00:36:17,171 --> 00:36:22,110
and I remember hearing Phil Chess
and Leonard saying, discussing this,
548
00:36:22,143 --> 00:36:25,914
"You know what? If we could
get a white kid to play this song,
549
00:36:25,947 --> 00:36:28,082
we could get it played."
550
00:36:28,116 --> 00:36:32,287
Because the radio stations were owned by all
caucasians. They wouldn't play black music.
551
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:37,258
So they said, "Okay." So all of a
sudden you got Carl Perkins popped up,
552
00:36:37,292 --> 00:36:41,096
Elvis Presley, uh,
Gene Vincent.
553
00:36:41,130 --> 00:36:47,002
They all come out of, what,
Sun Records in, uh, Nashville somewhere.
554
00:36:47,036 --> 00:36:50,840
Payola made it.
That's what made it for Sun Records.
555
00:36:52,975 --> 00:36:57,246
Geoff Philips and myself,
I'll have to admit,
556
00:36:57,279 --> 00:37:01,351
cranked payola off,
started paying off disc jockeys...
557
00:37:01,384 --> 00:37:03,920
to play records.
558
00:37:03,954 --> 00:37:06,923
I said, "Mr. Philips,
you shouldn't do that. That's a sin."
559
00:37:06,957 --> 00:37:10,026
He said,
"It'll pay off, son."
560
00:37:11,895 --> 00:37:14,931
So he went to jail.
561
00:37:14,965 --> 00:37:17,534
But those
records were great records.
562
00:37:17,567 --> 00:37:21,071
You still had to pay
to have them played?
563
00:37:21,104 --> 00:37:24,976
Well, yeah, but everybody
wants the money.
564
00:37:26,577 --> 00:37:31,849
Everybody wants to be paid
to be appreciated,
565
00:37:31,883 --> 00:37:35,119
not just to draw $80 a week
for playin' a record.
566
00:37:35,153 --> 00:37:40,124
A star, whoever he is, makes $100,000
dollars off a record, and he gets $80 a week.
567
00:37:40,158 --> 00:37:42,960
There was a bad omen
hangin' there...
568
00:37:42,994 --> 00:37:46,031
when the thing
became separated.
569
00:37:46,064 --> 00:37:50,269
It became separated. R-and-B
became-- became what we was doin'...
570
00:37:50,302 --> 00:37:53,839
and rock 'n' roll became
what the white kids was doin'.
571
00:37:53,872 --> 00:37:56,275
I think you mean
we moved in separated.
572
00:37:56,308 --> 00:38:00,312
We weren't called popular music.
We were not put in that class.
573
00:38:00,345 --> 00:38:03,081
-We were called rhythm and blues.
-Yeah.
574
00:38:03,115 --> 00:38:06,018
When I started with
a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop a-lop bam boom...
575
00:38:06,051 --> 00:38:08,988
and Pat Boone
covered it,
576
00:38:09,022 --> 00:38:12,892
uh, uh,
uh-- I was wop-bop-a-la all over the place.
577
00:38:12,926 --> 00:38:16,162
A-and so I remember
Art Rube says--
578
00:38:16,196 --> 00:38:20,333
Arthur Goldsberg, he says-- He
would put my record on the top station,
579
00:38:20,366 --> 00:38:23,603
and then here come
Pat Boone.
580
00:38:23,636 --> 00:38:25,605
The-- The white kids
wanted mine,
581
00:38:25,638 --> 00:38:28,309
'cause it was
real rough and... raw,
582
00:38:28,342 --> 00:38:30,444
and Pat Boone
had this smooth version:
583
00:38:30,478 --> 00:38:33,047
♪ Wop-bop-a-loo-bop a-lop bam boom ♪♪
584
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,350
And I'd say,
"Wop-bop-a-loo--" I had a gut to mine.
585
00:38:36,383 --> 00:38:40,921
So the white kids would take mine and put
it in a drawer and put his on the dresser.
586
00:38:40,955 --> 00:38:44,391
-For their parents to see.
-I was in the same house.
587
00:38:44,425 --> 00:38:47,628
But I was mad when Pat Boone cut my record.
I wanted to get him.
588
00:38:47,661 --> 00:38:49,630
I said, "I'm goin'
to Nashville to find him."
589
00:38:49,664 --> 00:38:53,168
I wanted to get him because, to me,
he was stopping my progress.
590
00:38:53,201 --> 00:38:57,272
I wanted to be famous,
and here this man came and took my song!
591
00:38:57,305 --> 00:38:59,274
White man.
A-And took--
592
00:38:59,307 --> 00:39:03,111
Not only did he take "Tutti Frutti,"
but he gonna take "Long Tall Sally,"
593
00:39:03,145 --> 00:39:05,213
and he didn't know how
to duck back in no alley!
594
00:39:05,247 --> 00:39:08,283
Son of a gun!
I said, "I got to do somethin' about it."
595
00:39:08,316 --> 00:39:11,487
Later, I thought about that
and said, "That was good,"
596
00:39:11,521 --> 00:39:13,990
but back then I said,
"I can't stand him."
597
00:39:14,023 --> 00:39:16,959
-But as I got older, I got bolder.
-Yeah!
598
00:39:16,993 --> 00:39:19,028
And now I've started rubbin' shoulders.
Yes.
599
00:39:26,169 --> 00:39:30,373
Johnnie Johnson,
Chuck's piano player, right?
600
00:39:30,406 --> 00:39:33,310
Chuck hadn't worked
with him for 20-odd years.
601
00:39:33,343 --> 00:39:36,980
Those two have a strange rela--
He walked in on Johnnie's band...
602
00:39:37,014 --> 00:39:42,152
in a little club in East St.
Louis one day and took it over,
603
00:39:42,186 --> 00:39:44,321
you know,
604
00:39:44,354 --> 00:39:48,358
and Johnnie,
being the guy he is,
605
00:39:48,392 --> 00:39:51,361
"Pleasure. Right, brother."
606
00:39:53,230 --> 00:39:56,167
I don't think Johnnie
has realized really...
607
00:39:56,201 --> 00:40:00,939
that Chuck-- I said to Johnnie,
"Play a boogie."
608
00:40:00,972 --> 00:40:04,542
You know?
I mean, he'll go flow naturally into it.
609
00:40:04,576 --> 00:40:07,345
♪♪
610
00:40:07,378 --> 00:40:09,347
And he's not doin'
a Chuck Berry song.
611
00:40:09,380 --> 00:40:12,283
I know, the way he's playing,
it's his riff.
612
00:40:12,317 --> 00:40:16,154
Chuck adapted it guitar. I know that,
too, because of the key it's in.
613
00:40:16,187 --> 00:40:19,458
It's in piano. It's in Johnnie's keys.
It's in piano keys.
614
00:40:19,492 --> 00:40:23,095
If it was a guitar-- I mean,
this is guitar, rock 'n' roll.
615
00:40:23,128 --> 00:40:25,531
You play
in A and E and D...
616
00:40:25,564 --> 00:40:28,033
'cause you got open strings
and there--
617
00:40:28,067 --> 00:40:31,437
This is a little technical,
but... for a guit-- That--
618
00:40:31,470 --> 00:40:34,373
If it's a guitar band,
you play in those keys,
619
00:40:34,406 --> 00:40:38,478
because it's-- they're
guitar keys, you know?
620
00:40:38,512 --> 00:40:42,449
On top of everything else,
we're playing in piano keys:
621
00:40:42,482 --> 00:40:47,287
you know, horn keys, jazz keys,
Johnnie Johnson's keys.
622
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:53,093
You know? And I-- I mean,
the minute that he does "School Days,"
623
00:40:53,126 --> 00:40:58,165
♪♪ he ain't copyin' Chuck's riffs on piano.
624
00:40:58,198 --> 00:41:00,601
Chuck adapted them
to guitar...
625
00:41:00,635 --> 00:41:03,604
and put those great
lyrics behind them.
626
00:41:03,638 --> 00:41:08,075
But without somebody
to give him them riffs,
627
00:41:08,109 --> 00:41:10,478
voila,no song,
628
00:41:10,511 --> 00:41:14,081
just a lot
of words on paper.
629
00:41:14,115 --> 00:41:19,020
I didn't write the music with him. I'd be
in the room sometime while he was writing.
630
00:41:19,053 --> 00:41:23,192
That's it. He would write the lyrics,
then he and I would get together...
631
00:41:23,225 --> 00:41:27,162
and we played some kind of
music that he could put lyrics into,
632
00:41:27,196 --> 00:41:30,165
and it would all come out
just right, you know.
633
00:41:30,199 --> 00:41:32,167
Some would be fast;
some would be slow...
634
00:41:32,201 --> 00:41:35,804
like this piece, uh, uh,
"Havana Moon," for instance.
635
00:41:35,838 --> 00:41:39,074
That was a slow
sort of calypso thing.
636
00:41:39,107 --> 00:41:42,411
So we had to find some calypso
music to go with the lyrics...
637
00:41:42,444 --> 00:41:45,448
to what he was--
to his "Havana Moon."
638
00:41:45,482 --> 00:41:49,118
And then, uh, pieces
like "Baby Doll"...
639
00:41:49,152 --> 00:41:51,621
and, uh,
"Roll Over, Beethoven" --
640
00:41:51,654 --> 00:41:55,458
all these were fast,
so we had to come up with fast music...
641
00:41:55,492 --> 00:41:58,228
that would blend in with
the words that he was writin',
642
00:41:58,261 --> 00:42:02,465
so he could get all his sentence
out and still come out on time.
643
00:42:02,499 --> 00:42:04,634
So this is the way
he did it.
644
00:42:04,667 --> 00:42:07,304
They say, "That's a Chuck
Berry song because there's--"
645
00:42:07,338 --> 00:42:10,374
♪♪
646
00:42:10,407 --> 00:42:13,110
Well, the first time
I heard that...
647
00:42:13,144 --> 00:42:15,312
was in Carl Hogan's--
648
00:42:15,346 --> 00:42:18,849
in one of Carl Hogan's riffs in,
uh, Louis Jordan's band.
649
00:42:18,883 --> 00:42:21,552
We have, uh, T-Bone Walker.
650
00:42:21,585 --> 00:42:24,522
Uh, I love T-Bone Walker's
slurs and his blues.
651
00:42:24,555 --> 00:42:27,425
So put a little Carl Hogan
and a little T-Bone Walker...
652
00:42:27,459 --> 00:42:30,262
and a little Charlie Christian,
the guitarist,
653
00:42:30,295 --> 00:42:33,532
and-- and, uh,
Tommy Dorsey's band together,
654
00:42:33,565 --> 00:42:37,536
look what a span of people
that you will please.
655
00:42:37,569 --> 00:42:40,338
And that's what I did
in "Johnny B. Goode,"
656
00:42:40,372 --> 00:42:42,641
uh, "Roll Over, Beethoven."
657
00:42:42,674 --> 00:42:46,311
And making it simple is
another important factor, I think,
658
00:42:46,344 --> 00:42:50,416
that resulted in, uh,
a lot of, uh, the artists...
659
00:42:50,449 --> 00:42:54,320
understanding and being able
to play my music--
660
00:42:54,353 --> 00:42:58,424
if you can call it my music,
but there's nothing new under the sun.
661
00:43:00,259 --> 00:43:04,363
♪ When, when ♪
Okay, let's just... a cappella.
662
00:43:04,397 --> 00:43:06,365
One, two, three, four.
663
00:43:06,399 --> 00:43:09,268
♪ When I see
those big, brown eyes ♪
664
00:43:09,302 --> 00:43:11,605
♪ That's when
I take my cue ♪
665
00:43:11,638 --> 00:43:15,909
♪ Don't take us but a few
minutes to get a message through ♪
666
00:43:15,943 --> 00:43:18,512
♪ I talk to you
You talk to me ♪
667
00:43:18,545 --> 00:43:21,348
♪ We talk to one another
I keep talkin' to the wrong person. ♪
668
00:43:21,381 --> 00:43:24,451
♪ It don't take but a few minutes ♪
What is that? Hold up.
669
00:43:24,485 --> 00:43:27,354
You sang it right up.
670
00:43:27,387 --> 00:43:29,389
♪ It don't take us but a few minutes ♪
671
00:43:29,423 --> 00:43:32,660
Wait. You got to do this slow.
672
00:43:32,694 --> 00:43:35,730
Oh, we sound like a alphabet.
Hold it.
673
00:43:39,968 --> 00:43:41,936
Let's go up
slower.
674
00:43:41,970 --> 00:43:45,507
♪ It don't take ♪
675
00:43:45,540 --> 00:43:49,611
♪ But a few ♪
676
00:43:49,644 --> 00:43:52,614
Okay.
♪ It don't take but a few ♪
677
00:43:52,647 --> 00:43:56,285
Okay, "It don't take," straightaway.
One, two, three, four.
678
00:43:56,318 --> 00:43:59,321
♪ It don't take
but a few minutes ♪
679
00:43:59,355 --> 00:44:02,491
-♪ To get a message through ♪♪
- "Understand each other."
680
00:44:02,525 --> 00:44:05,194
Oh, am I gonna
remember that?
681
00:44:05,227 --> 00:44:07,196
Well, you wrote it.
682
00:44:07,229 --> 00:44:10,466
I tell you what,
if I remember it--
683
00:44:10,499 --> 00:44:13,469
There's
a whole mixture of things.
684
00:44:13,502 --> 00:44:15,472
I hear
Latin and country, jazz.
685
00:44:15,505 --> 00:44:18,775
The whole thing makes
a beautiful hybrid.
686
00:44:18,808 --> 00:44:22,612
But there's not an understanding
on his part that he's a great songwriter.
687
00:44:22,646 --> 00:44:24,781
He just kind of
sloughs it off.
688
00:44:24,814 --> 00:44:27,584
Not entirely.
I'm not too sure.
689
00:44:27,617 --> 00:44:31,788
I've only just met him,
and it's hard to say...
690
00:44:31,822 --> 00:44:35,292
from just knowing him
this short a time...
691
00:44:35,325 --> 00:44:38,529
really what his kind of
acceptance of the whole thing is.
692
00:44:38,563 --> 00:44:41,566
First, I'd heard stories
that he was very bitter...
693
00:44:41,599 --> 00:44:44,569
and he thought people
had ripped him off.
694
00:44:44,602 --> 00:44:49,841
In order to think that, you must be
aware of how far your influence has spread.
695
00:44:49,874 --> 00:44:54,579
I don't really know if he's completely
aware of how much people love his music,
696
00:44:54,612 --> 00:44:59,585
because I know he's more-- he's
often very keen to be a showman.
697
00:44:59,618 --> 00:45:04,323
And that can be a sign of the fact that you're
not very secure with what you are good at.
698
00:45:04,356 --> 00:45:07,426
I like to hear him play those
ballads and things like that.
699
00:45:07,459 --> 00:45:10,429
I know that's deep
in his heart.
700
00:45:10,462 --> 00:45:14,433
If he was doing that on stage,
then I kinda feel that he was more--
701
00:45:14,466 --> 00:45:17,603
that he was really aware
of how much people do love him.
702
00:45:17,636 --> 00:45:20,773
♪♪
703
00:45:24,811 --> 00:45:29,482
♪ I'm through with love ♪
704
00:45:29,516 --> 00:45:33,386
♪ I'll never fall again ♪
705
00:45:33,419 --> 00:45:36,623
♪ Set a dream to love ♪
706
00:45:36,656 --> 00:45:41,494
♪ Don't ever call again ♪
707
00:45:41,529 --> 00:45:44,298
♪ For I must have you ♪
708
00:45:44,331 --> 00:45:46,267
♪ Wonder why ♪
709
00:45:47,868 --> 00:45:53,274
♪ That's why
I'm through with love ♪
710
00:45:55,576 --> 00:45:57,678
♪ I've locked my heart ♪
711
00:46:00,481 --> 00:46:03,718
♪ I'll keep
my feelings there ♪
712
00:46:03,752 --> 00:46:07,455
♪ Yes, I've stopped
my heart ♪
713
00:46:07,489 --> 00:46:11,326
♪ With an icy Frigidaire ♪
714
00:46:11,359 --> 00:46:17,098
♪ For I mean to care
for no one ♪
715
00:46:17,132 --> 00:46:21,570
♪ That's why
I'm through with love ♪
716
00:46:25,641 --> 00:46:29,812
♪ You should have told me ♪
717
00:46:29,846 --> 00:46:32,348
♪ That you didn't care ♪
718
00:46:35,151 --> 00:46:39,589
♪ You needn't scold me
For you had your share ♪
719
00:46:41,724 --> 00:46:47,865
♪ Slave wrapped around you
To hound you and swear ♪
720
00:46:47,898 --> 00:46:53,704
♪ Those deep emotions
Devotions to you ♪
721
00:46:56,773 --> 00:46:59,710
♪ I've locked my heart ♪
722
00:46:59,743 --> 00:47:03,747
♪ I'll keep
my feelings there ♪
723
00:47:03,780 --> 00:47:07,150
♪ Yes, I've
stopped my heart ♪
724
00:47:07,184 --> 00:47:11,456
♪ Like an icy Frigidaire ♪
725
00:47:11,489 --> 00:47:15,460
♪ For I mean
to care for no one ♪
726
00:47:17,195 --> 00:47:20,832
♪ That's why I'm through ♪
727
00:47:20,865 --> 00:47:25,403
♪ Yes, I'm through ♪
728
00:47:25,436 --> 00:47:26,938
♪ With love ♪♪
729
00:47:31,810 --> 00:47:36,615
Sure play some pretty, pretty
chords to be a rock 'n' roller, Jack.
730
00:47:36,649 --> 00:47:39,518
So do you.
Really, them pretty chords, baby.
731
00:47:39,552 --> 00:47:43,756
Mmm, yeah.
You should have been a jazz artist, Jack.
732
00:47:43,789 --> 00:47:46,625
No money in it, Chuck.
No money in it.
733
00:47:46,659 --> 00:47:48,961
Chuck is a beautiful songwriter.
734
00:47:48,994 --> 00:47:53,767
One thing about him:
The things he's write about,
735
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:57,437
he have studied about
or know about.
736
00:47:57,470 --> 00:48:01,708
Because, like, "Beethoven" and
all these other songs that he made,
737
00:48:01,741 --> 00:48:04,878
you can tell he been
to school with 'em.
738
00:48:04,911 --> 00:48:07,714
You tell 'em about how you
went to school, darling,
739
00:48:07,747 --> 00:48:09,950
and your education you got,
you know, how you went--
740
00:48:09,983 --> 00:48:11,952
Oh, Lord,
I lost all of it.
741
00:48:11,985 --> 00:48:14,956
No, you didn't.
No, he hasn't lost anything.
742
00:48:14,989 --> 00:48:17,959
Mom came out of college--
Where? In Oklahoma?
743
00:48:17,992 --> 00:48:20,962
Yes, uh-huh.
Mom came out of college as a teacher.
744
00:48:20,995 --> 00:48:23,731
And Dad
came off the farm.
745
00:48:23,764 --> 00:48:27,802
Yes, and plus he was
blind 'til he was 12.
746
00:48:27,835 --> 00:48:30,905
Well, partially. And they pierced his ears,
and it all came back.
747
00:48:30,938 --> 00:48:35,544
So Daddy, when he married Mother-- By
the way, she calls him "Henry," you know.
748
00:48:35,577 --> 00:48:40,482
And one more thing, she's six months older
than him and never lets him forget it.
749
00:48:40,516 --> 00:48:42,985
"I'm older than you, Henry.
Listen to me."
750
00:48:43,018 --> 00:48:45,687
Anyway, Daddy couldn't take it.
751
00:48:45,721 --> 00:48:49,558
Daddy went back to school
during-- after they got married.
752
00:48:49,591 --> 00:48:53,762
I'm nine years old, Daddy's goin' to
school. He says, "We used to go to school."
753
00:48:53,795 --> 00:48:56,666
He was going to school trying
to catch Mama. That's true.
754
00:48:56,699 --> 00:49:00,003
Mama layin' back with her education,
"He'll never catch me."
755
00:49:10,113 --> 00:49:14,551
Boy, does this box office
bring back a memory,
756
00:49:14,584 --> 00:49:16,719
a real particular memory.
757
00:49:16,753 --> 00:49:20,724
When I was 11 years old,
I came up to this very box office...
758
00:49:20,758 --> 00:49:23,761
to get a ticket to see to get a
ticket to see Tale of Two Cities.
759
00:49:23,794 --> 00:49:28,999
My father wanted us to see it because it
had a lot of artistic qualities about it.
760
00:49:29,033 --> 00:49:33,003
The lady said, "Come on,
we're not selling you a ticket.
761
00:49:33,037 --> 00:49:36,907
You know you people can't
come in here. Go away."
762
00:49:36,941 --> 00:49:42,514
You know, it took two years for that to
come to our theater in our neighborhood.
763
00:49:44,115 --> 00:49:46,685
Things have changed,
764
00:49:46,718 --> 00:49:48,653
really changed.
765
00:49:52,057 --> 00:49:55,560
It made me think that someday...
766
00:49:55,594 --> 00:49:57,562
I would come back.
767
00:49:57,596 --> 00:49:59,598
I'll be back.
768
00:50:02,101 --> 00:50:05,972
This theater was the Great
White Way of St. Louis,
769
00:50:06,005 --> 00:50:11,777
the epitome of theatrical
business in St. Louis.
770
00:50:11,811 --> 00:50:15,047
And the Father
of Rock 'N' Roll,
771
00:50:15,081 --> 00:50:17,650
a cog in that big wheel...
772
00:50:17,683 --> 00:50:20,953
is starring here tonight.
773
00:50:20,987 --> 00:50:23,055
Me.
774
00:50:23,089 --> 00:50:26,827
It's a far cry
from years back...
775
00:50:29,096 --> 00:50:32,099
when my forefathers,
776
00:50:32,132 --> 00:50:35,802
a few blocks away,
777
00:50:35,836 --> 00:50:39,606
were sold
on the civil courthouse steps.
778
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,009
Sold.
779
00:50:42,042 --> 00:50:44,811
Now, that's
a big change.
780
00:51:02,997 --> 00:51:04,966
Thank you.
781
00:51:06,735 --> 00:51:09,038
Thank you.
Thank you, St. Louis.
782
00:51:10,739 --> 00:51:14,043
Thank you.
783
00:51:14,076 --> 00:51:15,878
Thank you.
784
00:51:18,013 --> 00:51:20,850
Thank you.
785
00:51:20,883 --> 00:51:23,853
What inspires me to play here...
786
00:51:23,886 --> 00:51:26,055
is what this represents,
not what it is.
787
00:51:26,088 --> 00:51:28,057
It could be a corner bar.
788
00:51:28,090 --> 00:51:30,227
It's what it represents:
789
00:51:30,260 --> 00:51:34,097
elegance, decency, the, er,
strive for a better manner of life.
790
00:51:34,130 --> 00:51:38,001
In the theater where I saw
A Tale of Two Cities,
791
00:51:38,034 --> 00:51:40,003
we didn't
have such elegance.
792
00:51:40,036 --> 00:51:43,874
I don't mean the decor;
I mean the clientele.
793
00:51:43,907 --> 00:51:46,142
There was hollering
from the balcony.
794
00:51:46,176 --> 00:51:49,246
When a scene came on,
you expressed your feelings.
795
00:51:49,279 --> 00:51:52,817
Here you get a--
and that's enough.
796
00:51:52,850 --> 00:51:55,253
Lemme hear you holler ole!
Ole!
797
00:51:55,286 --> 00:51:57,255
Ole!
Ole!
798
00:51:57,288 --> 00:51:59,724
Ole!
799
00:51:59,757 --> 00:52:02,760
But whatever it be,
according to my music,
800
00:52:02,793 --> 00:52:05,696
I'll generate the feeling that
we had back in our neighborhood.
801
00:52:05,730 --> 00:52:09,834
Because that's one thing
about rock 'n' roll: It's freedom.
802
00:52:09,867 --> 00:52:12,804
♪♪
803
00:52:15,007 --> 00:52:17,809
♪♪
804
00:52:26,318 --> 00:52:32,024
♪ Well, I'm a write a little letter,
gonna mail it to my local D.J. ♪
805
00:52:32,057 --> 00:52:37,730
♪ Well, there's a jumpin' little
record I want my jockey to play ♪
806
00:52:37,764 --> 00:52:41,234
♪ Roll over, Beethoven
I got to hear it again today ♪
807
00:52:59,186 --> 00:53:02,923
♪ Early in the mornin'
I'm givin' you a warnin' ♪
808
00:53:02,957 --> 00:53:06,026
♪ Don't step
on my new, shiny shoes ♪
809
00:53:06,060 --> 00:53:08,829
♪ Hey, diddle diddle
I play my fiddle ♪
810
00:53:08,863 --> 00:53:11,832
♪ And I ain't got
nothin' to lose ♪
811
00:53:11,866 --> 00:53:16,838
♪ Roll over, Beethoven
Tell Tchaikovsky the news ♪
812
00:53:16,872 --> 00:53:20,375
♪ Well, if you feel it and
like it Go get your lover ♪
813
00:53:20,408 --> 00:53:23,111
♪ Reelin', rockin'
Roll it over ♪
814
00:53:23,144 --> 00:53:25,947
♪ Move on up
a trifle further ♪
815
00:53:25,981 --> 00:53:28,783
♪ Reel and rock
with one another ♪
816
00:53:28,817 --> 00:53:31,253
♪ Roll over, Beethoven
Tell Tchaikovsky the news ♪
817
00:53:34,389 --> 00:53:37,325
♪♪
818
00:54:07,191 --> 00:54:10,027
♪ Early in the mornin'
I'm givin' you my warnin' ♪
819
00:54:10,060 --> 00:54:13,297
♪ Don't step
on my new, shiny shoes ♪
820
00:54:13,330 --> 00:54:18,969
♪ Hey, diddle diddle I'm gonna play
my fiddle I ain't got nothin' to lose ♪
821
00:54:19,002 --> 00:54:20,904
♪ Roll over, Beethoven
and tell ♪
822
00:54:20,938 --> 00:54:23,441
♪ Everybody
repeat after me ♪
823
00:54:23,474 --> 00:54:26,277
♪ Roll over, Beethoven ♪
824
00:54:26,311 --> 00:54:29,981
-♪ Roll over, Beethoven ♪
-♪ Roll over, Beethoven ♪
825
00:54:30,014 --> 00:54:32,016
-♪ Roll over, Beethoven ♪
-♪ Roll over, Beethoven ♪
826
00:54:32,050 --> 00:54:34,919
♪ Roll over, Beethoven ♪
♪ Roll over, Beethoven ♪
827
00:54:34,953 --> 00:54:38,323
♪ Roll over, Beethoven ♪
♪ Tell Tchaikovsky-- ♪♪
828
00:54:38,356 --> 00:54:42,894
♪♪
829
00:54:49,235 --> 00:54:52,872
In the middle of "Roll Over
Beethoven" at the Fox Theater,
830
00:54:52,905 --> 00:54:56,075
Chuck comes up to me
in the solo and says,
831
00:54:56,108 --> 00:54:58,878
"After this chorus, we're
gonna change the key from--"
832
00:54:58,911 --> 00:55:02,047
We were in C--
"To B-flat."
833
00:55:02,081 --> 00:55:05,050
Which, I mean--
834
00:55:05,084 --> 00:55:08,355
And I said, "No," and he
sort of did a double-take,
835
00:55:08,388 --> 00:55:11,091
because I don't think many
people say no to Chuck.
836
00:55:11,124 --> 00:55:14,127
Even when it's going great,
he won't leave it at that.
837
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:18,398
He'll come in,
"That's a potential screw-it-up."
838
00:55:18,431 --> 00:55:20,400
But that's just him.
839
00:55:20,433 --> 00:55:22,936
I don't think--
840
00:55:22,969 --> 00:55:27,375
He's not malicious
or vicious or designed.
841
00:55:27,408 --> 00:55:31,145
He's just him, and you just gotta
be-- When you're workin' with Chuck,
842
00:55:31,178 --> 00:55:35,183
you just gotta be prepared
for anything, anytime.
843
00:55:35,216 --> 00:55:38,319
We rehearsed for 10 days.
This goes this and all.
844
00:55:38,352 --> 00:55:41,389
There's a piano solo here,
and then you stop.
845
00:55:41,422 --> 00:55:44,926
You get on stage, and boom!
Out the window. "Wing it."
846
00:55:44,959 --> 00:55:48,964
You know, everybody's
looking at me on stage,
847
00:55:48,997 --> 00:55:52,434
and once we get up there, totally different
arrangements-- some of them in different keys.
848
00:55:52,467 --> 00:55:55,537
And I just looked
at them, and--
849
00:55:55,571 --> 00:55:58,407
"Wing it, boys."
850
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:00,409
Ooh, that's nice.
851
00:56:00,442 --> 00:56:02,277
"Almost Grown."
I'll try it.
852
00:56:02,311 --> 00:56:05,280
♪♪
853
00:56:11,487 --> 00:56:13,923
Any-Anybody...
854
00:56:16,226 --> 00:56:18,261
Go ahead.
Okay.
855
00:56:18,294 --> 00:56:20,430
One more time!
856
00:56:20,463 --> 00:56:23,533
♪ Well, I'm doin'
all right in school ♪
857
00:56:23,566 --> 00:56:26,469
♪ They said
I broke no rules ♪
858
00:56:26,502 --> 00:56:30,039
♪ I ain't never been in dutch ♪
♪ Waa-do-day ♪
859
00:56:30,073 --> 00:56:33,177
-♪ I don't browse around too much ♪
-♪ Waa-do-day ♪
860
00:56:33,210 --> 00:56:36,213
-♪ Don't bother me Leave me alone ♪
-♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa-oa ♪
861
00:56:36,247 --> 00:56:39,350
♪ Anyway I'm almost grown ♪
♪ Waa-do-day ♪
862
00:56:39,383 --> 00:56:42,386
♪ I don't run around with no mob ♪
♪ Waa-do-day ♪
863
00:56:42,419 --> 00:56:46,056
♪ I got myself a little job ♪
♪ Waa-do-day ♪
864
00:56:46,090 --> 00:56:48,592
♪ Gonna buy me a little car ♪
♪ Waa-do-day ♪
865
00:56:48,626 --> 00:56:52,062
♪ Drive my girl in the park ♪
♪ Waa-do-day
866
00:56:52,096 --> 00:56:55,133
♪ Don't bother us Leave us alone ♪
♪ Whoa, ♪whoa, whoa-oa
867
00:56:55,166 --> 00:56:58,069
♪ Anyway we almost grown ♪
♪ Waa-do-day
868
00:56:58,103 --> 00:57:00,071
♪ Ba-da da-da
da-da-da ♪
869
00:57:00,105 --> 00:57:02,507
♪♪
870
00:57:28,668 --> 00:57:32,505
♪ Hey Hey,
hey, hey ♪
871
00:57:32,538 --> 00:57:35,474
Come on, now.
Slow it down, fellas.
872
00:57:35,508 --> 00:57:39,580
♪ Got my eye on a little "goil" ♪
♪ Waa-do-day ♪
873
00:57:39,613 --> 00:57:43,350
♪ Ah, she's really out this "woild" ♪
♪ Waa-do-day ♪
874
00:57:43,383 --> 00:57:46,086
♪ When she's taken to a dance ♪
♪ Waa-do-day ♪
875
00:57:46,119 --> 00:57:49,389
♪ She's studied Talks about romance ♪
♪ Waa-do-day ♪
876
00:57:49,423 --> 00:57:52,259
♪ Don't bother us Leave us alone ♪
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa-oa ♪
877
00:57:52,292 --> 00:57:56,129
♪ Anyway we almost grown ♪
♪ Waa-do-day ♪
878
00:57:56,163 --> 00:57:58,633
♪♪Hey!
879
00:58:15,283 --> 00:58:18,586
♪ You know I'm still livin' in town ♪
♪ Waa-do-day ♪
880
00:58:18,620 --> 00:58:22,157
♪ Done got married and settled down ♪
♪ Waa-do-day ♪
881
00:58:22,191 --> 00:58:25,294
♪ Now I really have a ball ♪
♪ Waa-do-day ♪
882
00:58:25,327 --> 00:58:28,464
♪ Don't mess around at all ♪
♪ Waa-do-day ♪
883
00:58:28,497 --> 00:58:31,600
♪ Don't bother us, leave us alone ♪
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa-oa
884
00:58:31,634 --> 00:58:35,170
-♪ Anyway we almost grown ♪
-♪ Waa-do-day ♪
885
00:58:35,204 --> 00:58:38,173
♪♪
886
00:58:54,357 --> 00:58:58,195
♪♪
887
00:59:01,631 --> 00:59:05,469
He's the first songwriter/singer
that I know of.
888
00:59:05,503 --> 00:59:07,738
Ah, there were others,
889
00:59:07,772 --> 00:59:11,409
but not with that much
rhythm and that much--
890
00:59:11,442 --> 00:59:14,378
The way the lyrics
rolled off the tongue,
891
00:59:14,412 --> 00:59:17,582
the way they stabbed,
the way they cut...
892
00:59:17,615 --> 00:59:21,619
and the way they sort of seemed to
lay there with the drums, all the lyric.
893
00:59:21,652 --> 00:59:25,357
It's just, a--
a free-form expression.
894
00:59:25,390 --> 00:59:30,329
And he did the same thing with the guitar
that he did with his voice and his writing.
895
00:59:30,362 --> 00:59:33,398
You couldn't find an earlier example
of a singer/songwriter/guitarist.
896
00:59:33,432 --> 00:59:38,737
Before 1956 or '7, in--
897
00:59:38,770 --> 00:59:43,475
a singer sung songs, and
a songwriter wrote them,
898
00:59:43,508 --> 00:59:47,680
and the twain
never did meet.
899
00:59:47,714 --> 00:59:53,653
And if there was a great song,
15 people did versions of it.
900
00:59:53,686 --> 00:59:57,457
You had your so-called standards
because that was the way it is.
901
00:59:57,490 --> 01:00:01,461
Some guy wrote the song, and if it
was a great song, everybody recorded it.
902
01:00:01,494 --> 01:00:04,497
But he put it back;
he did the troubadour.
903
01:00:04,531 --> 01:00:08,501
And he can play 'em, and he's the
only one who can play 'em like that.
904
01:00:08,535 --> 01:00:11,705
Ladies and gentlemen,
here is a young girl--
905
01:00:11,739 --> 01:00:14,808
she's a young girl to me;
she's quite a lady--
906
01:00:14,842 --> 01:00:18,646
whom I met at the Merv Griffin
Show in Hollywood when she began.
907
01:00:18,679 --> 01:00:21,382
Let's start it
without any applause.
908
01:00:21,415 --> 01:00:23,551
Come on out here,
Linda Ronstadt!
909
01:00:23,584 --> 01:00:26,787
"Back in the USA"!
Come on, darling!
910
01:00:34,329 --> 01:00:36,698
Gee, but you're pretty.
911
01:00:38,033 --> 01:00:41,536
♪♪
912
01:00:44,706 --> 01:00:47,475
♪ Uh-huh
Whoa, yeah ♪
913
01:00:47,509 --> 01:00:50,312
♪ Uh-huh
Whoa, yeah ♪
914
01:00:50,345 --> 01:00:53,249
♪ Uh-huh
Whoa, yeah ♪
915
01:00:53,282 --> 01:00:55,751
♪ Whoa, yeah ♪
♪ Whoa, yeah, whoa, yeah ♪
916
01:00:55,785 --> 01:00:59,555
♪ Oh, well, oh, well
I feel so good today ♪
917
01:00:59,589 --> 01:01:02,024
-♪ Uh-huh ♪
-♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
918
01:01:02,065 --> 01:01:06,336
♪ We just touched ground on an international runway ♪
♪ Uh-huh
919
01:01:06,362 --> 01:01:08,331
I'll bet you did!
♪ Whoa, yeah ♪
920
01:01:08,364 --> 01:01:11,033
♪ Jet propelled back home
from overseas to the USA ♪
921
01:01:11,067 --> 01:01:13,436
Sing the song!
♪ Uh-huh, whoa, yeah ♪
922
01:01:13,469 --> 01:01:17,374
♪ New York, Los Angeles
Oh, how I yearn for you ♪
923
01:01:17,407 --> 01:01:19,543
♪ Uh-huh Whoa, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah
924
01:01:19,576 --> 01:01:22,613
♪ Detroit, Chicago
Chattanooga, Baton Rouge ♪
925
01:01:22,646 --> 01:01:25,282
♪ Uh-huh ♪
♪ Whoa, yeah ♪
926
01:01:25,315 --> 01:01:28,852
♪ God, I long just to be at
my home back in old St. Lou ♪
927
01:01:31,822 --> 01:01:34,625
♪♪
928
01:01:48,673 --> 01:01:51,709
♪ Did I miss the skyscrapers
Did I miss the long freeway ♪
929
01:01:51,743 --> 01:01:54,412
♪ Uh-huh ♪
♪ Whoa, yeah ♪
930
01:01:54,445 --> 01:01:57,716
♪ From the coast of California to
the shores of the Delaware Bay ♪
931
01:01:57,750 --> 01:01:59,885
♪ Uh-huh ♪
♪ Whoa, yeah ♪
932
01:01:59,919 --> 01:02:03,489
♪ You can betcha I never did
'til I got back to the USA ♪
933
01:02:03,522 --> 01:02:05,357
♪ Whoa, yeah ♪
♪ Whoa, yeah ♪
934
01:02:05,391 --> 01:02:08,327
♪♪
935
01:02:23,376 --> 01:02:27,547
♪ We're goin' out for a drive
and searchin' for a corner cafe ♪
936
01:02:27,581 --> 01:02:32,552
♪ Uh-huh, whoa, yeah ♪
♪ Where hamburgers sizzle on the open griddle night and day ♪
937
01:02:32,586 --> 01:02:35,655
♪ Uh-huh ♪
♪ Whoa, yeah ♪
938
01:02:35,689 --> 01:02:39,492
♪ Yeah, the jukebox jumpin'
with the records back in the USA ♪
939
01:02:39,526 --> 01:02:41,395
Sing the song!
♪ Whoa, yeah, whoa, yeah ♪
940
01:02:41,429 --> 01:02:44,398
♪ I'm so glad
I'm livin' in the USA ♪
941
01:02:44,432 --> 01:02:46,834
♪ Uh-huh ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
942
01:02:46,868 --> 01:02:50,371
♪ I'm so glad ♪
♪ I'm so glad I'm livin' in the USA ♪
943
01:02:50,404 --> 01:02:52,673
Sing it again!
♪ Uh-huh, whoa, yeah ♪
944
01:02:52,707 --> 01:02:55,843
♪ Anything you want, we got it
right here in the USA ♪
945
01:02:55,877 --> 01:02:58,713
♪ Whoa, yeah ♪
♪ Whoa, yeah ♪
946
01:02:58,746 --> 01:03:01,782
♪ Well, I'm so glad
I'm livin' in the USA ♪
947
01:03:01,816 --> 01:03:04,586
♪ Uh-huh
Whoa, yeah ♪
948
01:03:04,620 --> 01:03:07,689
♪ I'm so glad
I'm livin' in the USA ♪
949
01:03:07,723 --> 01:03:10,525
♪ Uh-huh
Whoa, yeah ♪
950
01:03:10,559 --> 01:03:13,962
♪ Anything you want, we got it
right here in the USA ♪
951
01:03:13,996 --> 01:03:15,964
♪ Whoa, yeah
Whoa, yeah ♪
952
01:03:15,998 --> 01:03:18,467
♪ I'm so glad
953
01:03:18,500 --> 01:03:21,637
♪ I'm so glad ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
954
01:03:21,670 --> 01:03:25,008
♪ I'm so glad ♪
955
01:03:25,041 --> 01:03:27,510
♪ I'm so glad ♪
♪ Uh-huh, whoa, yeah ♪♪
956
01:03:32,982 --> 01:03:36,619
♪♪
957
01:03:42,959 --> 01:03:45,863
I was tryin' to shoot
for the entire population...
958
01:03:45,896 --> 01:03:49,033
instead of, shall we say,
the Neighborhood.
959
01:03:49,066 --> 01:03:53,938
Muddy Waters-- I knew he was dynamite
in our neighborhood. He's dynamite with me.
960
01:03:53,971 --> 01:03:57,508
One of the most-loved
artists that I like.
961
01:03:57,541 --> 01:04:02,046
But workin' for my father in the white
neighborhoods, I never heard Muddy Waters.
962
01:04:02,079 --> 01:04:05,716
I never heard Elmore James.
Howling Wolf, I never heard of him.
963
01:04:05,749 --> 01:04:09,521
I heard Frank Sinatra;
I heard Pat Boone--
964
01:04:09,554 --> 01:04:14,759
Pat Boone doing Muddy Waters' or
whoever's number, you know, selection.
965
01:04:14,793 --> 01:04:18,797
But then I said,
"Why can't I do as Pat Boone does...
966
01:04:18,830 --> 01:04:23,034
"and play good music
for the white people...
967
01:04:23,068 --> 01:04:26,838
and sell as well there as
I could in the Neighborhood?"
968
01:04:26,872 --> 01:04:31,577
And that's what I shot for writing
"School Days": nice, nice music.
969
01:04:31,611 --> 01:04:35,248
And, ah, it caught on.
970
01:04:35,281 --> 01:04:39,952
♪ They're really rockin' in Boston ♪
971
01:04:39,986 --> 01:04:43,089
♪ In Pittsburgh, PA ♪
972
01:04:43,122 --> 01:04:45,892
♪ Deep in the heart
of Texas ♪
973
01:04:45,925 --> 01:04:48,594
♪ Around the Frisco Bay
974
01:04:48,628 --> 01:04:51,732
♪ All over St. Louie ♪
975
01:04:51,765 --> 01:04:54,001
♪ Way down
in New Orleans ♪
976
01:04:54,034 --> 01:04:57,771
♪ Everybody wants
to dance with ♪
977
01:04:57,804 --> 01:05:00,541
♪ Sweet little 16 ♪
978
01:05:00,574 --> 01:05:02,809
♪ Sweet little 16 ♪
979
01:05:02,843 --> 01:05:05,579
♪ Has just got to have ♪
980
01:05:05,612 --> 01:05:08,615
♪ About a half a million ♪
981
01:05:08,649 --> 01:05:11,084
♪ Famed autographs ♪
982
01:05:11,118 --> 01:05:13,988
♪ Her wallet filled
with pictures ♪
983
01:05:14,022 --> 01:05:17,091
♪ She gets 'em
one by one ♪
984
01:05:17,125 --> 01:05:19,861
♪ Becomes so excited ♪
985
01:05:19,894 --> 01:05:22,630
♪ Watch her, look at her
run, run, run ♪
986
01:05:22,664 --> 01:05:25,066
♪ Oh, Mama, Mama ♪
987
01:05:25,099 --> 01:05:28,536
♪ Please may I go ♪
988
01:05:28,570 --> 01:05:30,672
♪ It's such
a sight to see ♪
989
01:05:30,705 --> 01:05:34,043
♪ A good
rock 'n' roll show ♪
990
01:05:34,076 --> 01:05:36,745
♪ Oh, Daddy, Daddy ♪
991
01:05:36,779 --> 01:05:39,148
♪ I beg of you ♪
992
01:05:39,181 --> 01:05:42,051
♪ Whisper to Mama ♪
993
01:05:42,084 --> 01:05:45,020
♪ It's all right with you ♪
994
01:05:45,054 --> 01:05:47,756
♪ 'Cause they'll be rockin'
on Bandstand ♪
995
01:05:47,790 --> 01:05:50,659
♪ In Philadelphia, PA ♪
996
01:05:50,693 --> 01:05:53,696
♪ Deep in the heart
of Texas ♪
997
01:05:53,729 --> 01:05:56,633
♪ And 'round ♪
♪ And 'round the Frisco Bay ♪
998
01:05:56,666 --> 01:05:59,336
♪ All over ♪
♪ All over St. Louie ♪
999
01:05:59,369 --> 01:06:02,138
♪ New Orleans ♪
1000
01:06:02,172 --> 01:06:04,641
♪ Everybody wanna
dance with ♪
1001
01:06:04,674 --> 01:06:07,677
♪ Sweet little 16 ♪
1002
01:06:07,711 --> 01:06:10,080
♪ Sweet little 16 ♪
1003
01:06:10,113 --> 01:06:12,916
♪ She's got
the grown-up blues ♪
1004
01:06:12,949 --> 01:06:15,819
♪ Miniskirts
and hot pants ♪
1005
01:06:15,852 --> 01:06:18,756
♪ Sometimes she don't
even wear shoes ♪
1006
01:06:18,789 --> 01:06:21,792
♪ Oh, but
tomorrow mornin' ♪
1007
01:06:21,826 --> 01:06:24,629
♪ She'll have to
change her trend ♪
1008
01:06:24,662 --> 01:06:26,797
♪ And be Sweet 16 ♪
1009
01:06:26,831 --> 01:06:29,934
♪ And get back
in class again ♪
1010
01:06:29,967 --> 01:06:32,970
♪ 'Cause I'll be rockin'
on Bandstand ♪
1011
01:06:33,004 --> 01:06:36,641
♪ Philadelphia, PA ♪
1012
01:06:36,674 --> 01:06:39,611
♪ Deep in the heart ♪
♪ Deep in the heart of Texas ♪
1013
01:06:39,645 --> 01:06:41,947
♪ 'Round the F--
Frisco Bay ♪
1014
01:06:41,980 --> 01:06:44,182
♪ All over St. Louie ♪
1015
01:06:44,216 --> 01:06:47,819
♪ Down in New Orleans ♪
1016
01:06:47,853 --> 01:06:49,755
♪ Everybody wants
to dance with ♪
1017
01:06:49,788 --> 01:06:51,857
♪ Sweet little 16 ♪
1018
01:06:51,890 --> 01:06:55,827
Louder!
♪ Everybody wants to dance with ♪
1019
01:06:55,861 --> 01:06:57,996
♪ Sweet little 16 ♪
Thank you!
1020
01:06:58,030 --> 01:07:01,634
♪♪
1021
01:07:05,805 --> 01:07:08,708
♪♪
1022
01:07:08,741 --> 01:07:11,878
♪ Mabellene ♪
1023
01:07:11,911 --> 01:07:14,414
This is my Ford,
1024
01:07:14,447 --> 01:07:16,816
my beautiful Ford,
1025
01:07:16,849 --> 01:07:19,419
one that
I could afford.
1026
01:07:19,452 --> 01:07:21,654
Yeah, I love it.
1027
01:07:21,688 --> 01:07:23,958
Black windows.
1028
01:07:23,991 --> 01:07:26,727
I can hide anytime
I want to hide, you know,
1029
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:28,996
when it's time to hide.
1030
01:07:29,029 --> 01:07:31,665
This is a '73.
1031
01:07:31,699 --> 01:07:35,869
When I went to sell it,
they only wanted to give me $3,000 for it,
1032
01:07:35,903 --> 01:07:38,872
and it was worth ten,
so why sell it?
1033
01:07:38,906 --> 01:07:42,910
This is a '77 I bought in California,
had it all goosed up.
1034
01:07:42,943 --> 01:07:45,880
$4,000?
No. I kept it.
1035
01:07:45,914 --> 01:07:50,218
Other one's a '77.
'73, '75, '77.
1036
01:07:50,252 --> 01:07:54,990
None of 'em wanted to give me
what I wanted for 'em, so they set here.
1037
01:07:55,023 --> 01:07:57,759
I'll let 'em
set 20 years.
1038
01:07:57,792 --> 01:08:01,863
Then I'll sell them
to you for $50,000.
1039
01:08:01,897 --> 01:08:04,933
♪ I'm an all-American boy ♪
1040
01:08:04,966 --> 01:08:07,770
♪♪
1041
01:08:12,308 --> 01:08:15,111
♪ As I was motorvating ♪
1042
01:08:15,144 --> 01:08:17,914
♪ Back in town ♪
1043
01:08:17,947 --> 01:08:20,182
♪ I saw a Cadillac
sign say ♪
1044
01:08:20,216 --> 01:08:23,019
♪ "No Money Down" ♪
1045
01:08:23,052 --> 01:08:25,888
♪ So I eased
on my brakes ♪
1046
01:08:25,922 --> 01:08:28,725
♪ Pulled up
in the drive ♪
1047
01:08:28,759 --> 01:08:30,961
♪ Gunned my motor twice ♪
1048
01:08:30,994 --> 01:08:33,730
♪ Then I walked inside ♪
1049
01:08:33,764 --> 01:08:36,233
♪ The dealer came to me ♪
1050
01:08:36,266 --> 01:08:38,936
♪ Said
trade in that Ford ♪
1051
01:08:38,969 --> 01:08:41,805
♪ Put you in a car ♪
1052
01:08:41,838 --> 01:08:44,241
♪ That'll tear up
the road ♪
1053
01:08:44,274 --> 01:08:46,944
♪ Just tell me
what you want ♪
1054
01:08:46,977 --> 01:08:49,847
♪ And then
sign that line ♪
1055
01:08:49,881 --> 01:08:52,250
♪ I'll have it
brought down to you ♪
1056
01:08:52,283 --> 01:08:55,086
♪ In 15 minutes' time ♪
1057
01:08:55,119 --> 01:08:58,089
♪ I'm a get that car ♪
1058
01:08:58,122 --> 01:09:00,892
♪ Yeah, and I'm gonna
head on down the road ♪
1059
01:09:04,996 --> 01:09:08,833
♪ Yes, then I won't
have to worry ♪
1060
01:09:08,866 --> 01:09:11,937
♪ With that broken-down,
ragged Ford ♪
1061
01:09:16,575 --> 01:09:19,111
♪ I want
a yellow convertible ♪
1062
01:09:19,144 --> 01:09:21,981
♪ Four-door DE Ville ♪
1063
01:09:22,014 --> 01:09:24,783
♪ With a continental spare ♪
1064
01:09:24,817 --> 01:09:27,553
♪ And wire chrome wheels ♪
1065
01:09:27,586 --> 01:09:29,989
♪ I want air-condition ♪
1066
01:09:30,022 --> 01:09:32,859
♪ Automatic heat ♪
1067
01:09:32,893 --> 01:09:35,328
♪ I want
a full Murphy bed ♪
1068
01:09:35,362 --> 01:09:38,265
♪ In my back seat ♪
1069
01:09:38,298 --> 01:09:40,867
♪ Shortwave radio ♪
1070
01:09:40,901 --> 01:09:43,270
♪ TV and a phone ♪
1071
01:09:43,303 --> 01:09:46,006
♪ 'Cause I like
to talk to my baby ♪
1072
01:09:46,039 --> 01:09:48,174
♪ When I'm out
ridin' alone ♪
1073
01:09:52,078 --> 01:09:54,782
♪ Yeah, and I'm gon'
head on down the road ♪
1074
01:09:58,386 --> 01:10:02,590
♪ Then I won't
have to worry ♪
1075
01:10:02,623 --> 01:10:05,826
♪ Oh, with that
broken-down, ragged Ford ♪♪
1076
01:10:05,860 --> 01:10:08,796
♪♪
1077
01:10:51,274 --> 01:10:54,077
♪♪
1078
01:10:59,683 --> 01:11:02,886
Probably, like most
musicians of my generation,
1079
01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:06,891
I first really heard Chuck Berry
through the Rolling Stones.
1080
01:11:06,924 --> 01:11:11,061
I think I learned my first Chuck Berry
lead from Keith Richards, probably,
1081
01:11:11,095 --> 01:11:15,499
and, uh, that first
Rolling Stones record...
1082
01:11:15,532 --> 01:11:18,302
where I think
they had "Oh, Carol"...
1083
01:11:18,335 --> 01:11:22,440
and a few other
Chuck Berry songs.
1084
01:11:22,474 --> 01:11:26,978
And then from them I kinda went
back, and I got his records.
1085
01:11:27,012 --> 01:11:31,249
And I guess the funny
thing was...
1086
01:11:31,283 --> 01:11:35,387
I think that his influence on my
own writin' came out more later on,
1087
01:11:35,420 --> 01:11:39,057
when I wanted to write the way
I thought that people talked.
1088
01:11:39,090 --> 01:11:42,060
'Cause that's how I felt.
That's how he writes.
1089
01:11:42,093 --> 01:11:44,030
You know, right before--
1090
01:11:44,063 --> 01:11:47,199
You know, if you listen
to one of his songs,
1091
01:11:47,233 --> 01:11:49,402
it sounds like somebody's comin' in,
sittin' down in a chair...
1092
01:11:49,435 --> 01:11:53,272
and tellin' ya a story about
their aunt or their brother...
1093
01:11:53,306 --> 01:11:56,709
or describing some girl.
1094
01:11:56,742 --> 01:12:01,147
His descriptiveness
and his eye for detail--
1095
01:12:01,180 --> 01:12:04,284
like, uh,
like "Nadine," you know?
1096
01:12:04,318 --> 01:12:08,288
♪ She was standin' on the corner I saw her
on the corner She turned and doubled back ♪
1097
01:12:08,322 --> 01:12:11,291
♪ I started walkin' to
a coffee-colored Cadillac ♪♪
1098
01:12:11,325 --> 01:12:14,962
You know, it was like-- I've never
seen a coffee-colored Cadillac,
1099
01:12:14,995 --> 01:12:17,431
but I know exactly what one looks like.
1100
01:12:17,464 --> 01:12:20,434
♪♪
1101
01:12:26,007 --> 01:12:29,077
♪ As I got on the city bus
and found a vacant seat ♪
1102
01:12:29,110 --> 01:12:32,180
♪ I thought I saw my future
bride walkin' up the street ♪
1103
01:12:32,213 --> 01:12:35,383
♪ Shouted to the driver,
Hey, conductor, you must ♪
1104
01:12:35,416 --> 01:12:38,186
♪ Slow down, I think I see her
Please let me off this bus ♪
1105
01:12:38,219 --> 01:12:40,188
♪ Nadine ♪
1106
01:12:40,221 --> 01:12:42,023
♪ Honey, is that you ♪
1107
01:12:43,358 --> 01:12:46,060
♪ Whoa, Nadine ♪
1108
01:12:46,094 --> 01:12:50,466
♪ Honey, is that you ♪
1109
01:12:50,499 --> 01:12:54,970
♪ Every time I see you
you got something else to do ♪
1110
01:12:57,072 --> 01:13:00,276
♪ I saw her from the corner when
she turned and doubled back ♪
1111
01:13:00,309 --> 01:13:03,545
♪ I started walkin' toward
her coffee-colored Cadillac ♪
1112
01:13:03,579 --> 01:13:07,082
♪ Pushin' through the crowd
tryin' to get to where she's at ♪
1113
01:13:07,116 --> 01:13:10,020
♪ Campaign shoutin'
like a southern diplomat ♪
1114
01:13:10,053 --> 01:13:12,489
♪ Nadine ♪
1115
01:13:12,522 --> 01:13:15,325
♪ Is that you ♪
1116
01:13:15,358 --> 01:13:19,329
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Nadine ♪
1117
01:13:19,362 --> 01:13:22,632
♪ Is that you ♪
1118
01:13:22,666 --> 01:13:26,469
♪ Every time I see you
You got somethin' else to do ♪
1119
01:14:05,577 --> 01:14:07,846
♪ You know ♪
1120
01:14:07,879 --> 01:14:11,149
♪ She moves around like
a wayward summer breeze ♪
1121
01:14:11,183 --> 01:14:14,120
♪ Go, driver, go, go 'head
Catch her for me, please ♪
1122
01:14:14,153 --> 01:14:17,190
♪ Moving through the traffic
like a mounted cavalier ♪
1123
01:14:17,223 --> 01:14:20,159
♪ A-leanin' out the taxi window
tryin' to make her hear ♪
1124
01:14:20,193 --> 01:14:23,296
♪ Nadine ♪
1125
01:14:23,329 --> 01:14:25,431
♪ Is that you ♪
1126
01:14:25,465 --> 01:14:29,369
♪ Wow, Nadine ♪
1127
01:14:29,402 --> 01:14:33,139
♪ Is that you ♪
1128
01:14:33,172 --> 01:14:36,610
♪ Every time I see you, honey
You are up to somethin' new ♪♪
1129
01:14:50,624 --> 01:14:53,594
Thelma, do you remember
that Sunday after church,
1130
01:14:53,627 --> 01:14:57,599
when Daddy and Mother came home
after they got through singin'?
1131
01:14:57,632 --> 01:15:01,369
I didn't care about the singin'. I was
bouncing a ball, and it went under the table.
1132
01:15:01,403 --> 01:15:05,240
I went under the table,
and instead of bending to get the ball--
1133
01:15:05,273 --> 01:15:08,410
You scooted across.
I remember. Yeah, yeah.
1134
01:15:08,443 --> 01:15:11,646
And when I scooted out from under
the table, the big round table we have,
1135
01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:14,549
Mother says, "Do that again."
Mm-hmm.
1136
01:15:14,583 --> 01:15:19,689
And every time company came, I had to do
that for Mother, and they'd laugh and laugh.
1137
01:15:19,722 --> 01:15:22,525
It's just the entertainment,
I guess, in my blood.
1138
01:15:22,558 --> 01:15:25,461
Never came
into my mind again...
1139
01:15:25,494 --> 01:15:28,598
until I got to the Paramount
Theater in Brooklyn.
1140
01:15:28,631 --> 01:15:31,701
In the middle
of "Mabellene,"
1141
01:15:31,734 --> 01:15:35,605
had nothing to do
but play a riff,
1142
01:15:35,638 --> 01:15:38,774
and just thought I'd go down on my
knees and play the riff and scoot along.
1143
01:15:38,808 --> 01:15:41,778
And the people went--
the audience just went--
1144
01:15:41,812 --> 01:15:44,548
I said, "Ho ho ho,
I'll keep that in there."
1145
01:15:44,581 --> 01:15:48,552
I'd never met him.
Today he walked in the door.
1146
01:15:48,585 --> 01:15:50,787
And I went, "Chuck Berry, my hero!"
It just came out.
1147
01:15:50,821 --> 01:15:53,457
♪ Go, Johnny
Go, go, go ♪♪
1148
01:15:53,490 --> 01:15:56,760
I don't think there's any
group in the world, white or black--
1149
01:15:56,793 --> 01:15:59,696
but mainly the white kids were
really turned on by Chuck Berry.
1150
01:15:59,730 --> 01:16:02,800
Not one of us,
the Beatles, the Stones--
1151
01:16:02,834 --> 01:16:05,970
you name any top group,
they've all been influenced by him.
1152
01:16:06,004 --> 01:16:08,706
His lyrics were
very intelligent lyrics.
1153
01:16:08,740 --> 01:16:11,709
In the '50s, when people were
just singin' virtually about nothin',
1154
01:16:11,743 --> 01:16:14,245
he was writin'
social comment songs.
1155
01:16:14,279 --> 01:16:17,348
He was writin' all kinds of songs
with incredible meter to the lyrics,
1156
01:16:17,382 --> 01:16:20,451
which influenced Dylan and me
and many other people.
1157
01:16:20,485 --> 01:16:24,623
The meter was tremendous. He's the greatest
rock 'n' roll poet, and I really admire him.
1158
01:16:24,657 --> 01:16:26,625
Thank you,
ladies and gentlemen.
1159
01:16:26,659 --> 01:16:29,795
And now, at this time, I'd like
to introduce a young man...
1160
01:16:29,828 --> 01:16:33,532
who is the seat
of the greatest influence...
1161
01:16:33,565 --> 01:16:37,269
in rock music in the '60s.
1162
01:16:37,303 --> 01:16:40,673
Believe me,
has done not only my music...
1163
01:16:40,706 --> 01:16:44,643
but the world a great
tribute in rock music.
1164
01:16:44,677 --> 01:16:49,649
None other than his son Julian
Lennon to do "Johnny B. Goode."
1165
01:16:49,683 --> 01:16:52,619
Come on, Julian.
1166
01:16:59,826 --> 01:17:03,597
Look at him!
Ain't he like his pa? Yeah!
1167
01:17:03,630 --> 01:17:06,600
♪♪
1168
01:17:12,773 --> 01:17:15,376
Oh, yeah!
1169
01:17:21,082 --> 01:17:24,051
♪ Deep down in Louisiana
Close to New Orleans ♪
1170
01:17:24,085 --> 01:17:26,821
♪ Way back up in the woods
among the evergreens ♪
1171
01:17:26,854 --> 01:17:29,758
♪ There stood a log cabin
made of earth and wood ♪
1172
01:17:29,791 --> 01:17:32,628
♪ There lived a country boy
named Johnny B. Goode ♪
1173
01:17:32,661 --> 01:17:35,397
♪ Who never ever learned
to read or write so well ♪
1174
01:17:35,430 --> 01:17:38,667
♪ But he can play a guitar just like a ring in a bell
Go, go ♪
1175
01:17:38,700 --> 01:17:41,770
-I hear you!
-♪ Go, Johnny, go, go ♪
1176
01:17:41,803 --> 01:17:44,506
I hear you!
♪ Go, Johnny, go, go ♪
1177
01:17:44,539 --> 01:17:47,542
-Sing the song!
-♪ Go, Johnny, go, go ♪
1178
01:17:47,576 --> 01:17:50,078
Oh, yeah!
♪ Go, Johnny, go, go ♪
1179
01:17:50,112 --> 01:17:52,715
-Oh, yeah!
-♪ Johnny B. Goode ♪
1180
01:17:54,817 --> 01:17:57,887
♪ He used to carry his guitar
in a gunnysack ♪
1181
01:17:57,921 --> 01:18:00,857
♪ Go sit beneath the tree
by the railroad track ♪
1182
01:18:00,890 --> 01:18:03,793
♪ Old engineer would see him
sittin' in the shade ♪
1183
01:18:03,826 --> 01:18:06,796
♪ Strummin' with the rhythm
that the drivers made ♪
1184
01:18:06,829 --> 01:18:09,399
♪ People passin' by
They would stop and say ♪
1185
01:18:09,432 --> 01:18:12,436
♪ Oh, my, but that little country boy can play ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah! ♪
1186
01:18:12,469 --> 01:18:16,540
♪ Go, go
Go, Johnny, go, go ♪
1187
01:18:16,573 --> 01:18:19,410
♪ Go, Johnny, go, go ♪
1188
01:18:19,443 --> 01:18:22,413
♪ Go, Johnny, go, go ♪
1189
01:18:22,446 --> 01:18:25,583
♪ Go, Johnny, go, go ♪
1190
01:18:25,616 --> 01:18:27,685
♪ Johnny B. Goode ♪
1191
01:18:28,986 --> 01:18:31,922
♪♪
1192
01:18:44,002 --> 01:18:46,571
Sing the song, Julian!
1193
01:18:46,605 --> 01:18:48,807
♪ His mother said that someday
you will be a man ♪
1194
01:18:48,840 --> 01:18:52,477
-♪ You will be the leader of a big ol' band ♪
-Yes, you will.
1195
01:18:52,510 --> 01:18:54,846
♪ Many people passin' from miles around ♪
Yes, they will.
1196
01:18:54,879 --> 01:18:57,783
♪ To hear you play your music 'til the sun goes down ♪
Yes, you do.
1197
01:18:57,817 --> 01:19:00,586
♪ Maybe someday your name will be in lights ♪
Oh, yeah!
1198
01:19:00,620 --> 01:19:02,955
-♪ Sayin' Johnny B. Goode tonight ♪
-Sing the song now!
1199
01:19:02,989 --> 01:19:06,626
♪ Go
Go, Johnny, go, go ♪
1200
01:19:06,659 --> 01:19:10,896
Come on, help the boy!
♪ Go, Johnny, go, go ♪
1201
01:19:10,930 --> 01:19:16,702
♪ Go, Johnny, go, go ♪
♪ Go, Johnny, go, go Go, Johnny, go, go ♪
1202
01:19:16,736 --> 01:19:20,173
♪ Johnny B. Goode ♪
Oh, yeah!
1203
01:19:20,207 --> 01:19:23,910
John Julian Lennon!
1204
01:19:26,546 --> 01:19:29,616
Tell Papa hello.
I will.
1205
01:19:29,650 --> 01:19:32,953
I'll tell you
what he says.
1206
01:19:32,986 --> 01:19:35,789
Well, we got in a fight.
That's when we become friends.
1207
01:19:35,822 --> 01:19:39,193
He whooped my butt.
1208
01:19:39,227 --> 01:19:41,996
So why were you two fighting?
1209
01:19:42,030 --> 01:19:44,966
He said he was King of Rock 'N' Roll,
and I said I was.
1210
01:19:44,999 --> 01:19:48,503
And he said he was,
and he proved he was.
1211
01:19:48,536 --> 01:19:51,506
I didn't argue
with him no more.
1212
01:19:51,539 --> 01:19:53,908
What do you think was
distinctive about Chuck's--
1213
01:19:53,942 --> 01:19:58,780
Talent.
God-given talent.
1214
01:19:58,813 --> 01:20:01,717
Charisma.
He has a certain--
1215
01:20:01,750 --> 01:20:05,921
Chuck Berry is the greatest-- He's
the Hank Williams of rock 'n' roll.
1216
01:20:05,955 --> 01:20:09,458
Chuck was aware of what
the Grand Ole Opry was.
1217
01:20:09,491 --> 01:20:13,963
We talked about that when we first met. He
listened to the Grand Ole Opry in St. Louis.
1218
01:20:13,996 --> 01:20:17,766
My first impression
of Chuck was that, uh,
1219
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:20,469
he was a black
country singer, sort of.
1220
01:20:20,502 --> 01:20:24,941
It was rhythm and blues, but it
wasn't so rhythm and blues at the time.
1221
01:20:24,975 --> 01:20:28,511
Uh, sort of
with a country flavor.
1222
01:20:28,545 --> 01:20:31,982
That may sound very strange,
but it was-- I still feel that way.
1223
01:20:32,015 --> 01:20:35,952
I still feel
very strongly that...
1224
01:20:35,986 --> 01:20:39,589
Chuck might have been
a mixture of...
1225
01:20:39,623 --> 01:20:42,993
first rock 'n' roll,
rhythm and blues and then some country.
1226
01:20:43,026 --> 01:20:49,567
♪ Long-Distance Information
Give me Memphis, Tennessee ♪
1227
01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:54,572
♪ Help me find the party tried
to get in touch with me ♪
1228
01:20:54,605 --> 01:20:59,510
♪ She could not leave her number,
but I know who placed the call ♪
1229
01:20:59,543 --> 01:21:03,648
♪ My uncle took the message
and he wrote it on the wall ♪
1230
01:21:08,020 --> 01:21:12,958
♪ Help me, Information
Get in touch with my Marie ♪
1231
01:21:12,991 --> 01:21:17,863
♪ She's the only one who'd phone
me here from Memphis, Tennessee ♪
1232
01:21:17,896 --> 01:21:23,001
♪ Her home is on the south side
high up on a ridge ♪
1233
01:21:23,035 --> 01:21:27,039
♪ Just a half a mile
from the Mississippi Bridge ♪
1234
01:21:54,668 --> 01:21:59,707
♪ You know the last time I saw
Marie she was waving me good-bye ♪
1235
01:21:59,740 --> 01:22:04,345
♪ With Hurry Home drops on her
cheek and that trickle from her eye ♪
1236
01:22:04,378 --> 01:22:09,783
♪ Marie is only six years old
Information, please ♪
1237
01:22:09,817 --> 01:22:13,054
♪ Try to put me through to her
in Memphis, Tenne-- ♪
1238
01:22:40,850 --> 01:22:46,188
♪ Oh, help me, Information
More than that I cannot add ♪
1239
01:22:46,222 --> 01:22:51,127
♪ Only that I miss her
and all the fun we had ♪
1240
01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:56,099
♪ We were pulled apart because
her mom did not agree ♪
1241
01:22:56,133 --> 01:23:00,137
♪ And tore apart our happy home
in Memphis, Tennessee ♪♪
1242
01:23:36,240 --> 01:23:39,211
If you want
to play rock 'n' roll...
1243
01:23:39,244 --> 01:23:43,449
or any upbeat number,
and you wanted a guitar ride,
1244
01:23:43,482 --> 01:23:46,885
you would end up playing like Chuck,
or what you learned from Chuck.
1245
01:23:46,919 --> 01:23:51,790
'Cause there is very little,
actually, other choice.
1246
01:23:51,824 --> 01:23:56,795
There's not a lot of other ways to play rock
'n' roll other than the way Chuck plays it.
1247
01:23:58,030 --> 01:24:00,800
If you try to play
all the double-string stuff,
1248
01:24:03,770 --> 01:24:06,906
it's really full,
you know?
1249
01:24:06,940 --> 01:24:10,210
If you give me a break
in a fast, you know,
1250
01:24:10,243 --> 01:24:13,780
and I start playing single lines,
it doesn't sound right.
1251
01:24:13,813 --> 01:24:18,985
It just doesn't sound right. It sounds
thin or something, or too "fiddly."
1252
01:24:19,019 --> 01:24:21,756
Explain.
You know, like to go--
1253
01:24:21,789 --> 01:24:27,261
♪♪
1254
01:24:27,295 --> 01:24:30,698
It would be okay, but it wouldn't be as good as--
1255
01:24:32,199 --> 01:24:34,835
Really, for me anyway.
1256
01:24:34,869 --> 01:24:39,974
So he's really laid the law down
for playing that kind of music.
1257
01:24:40,007 --> 01:24:46,014
♪♪
1258
01:24:46,048 --> 01:24:49,284
♪ Tell me who's the girl standing
over by the record machine ♪
1259
01:24:51,553 --> 01:24:55,924
♪ Lookin' like a model
on the cover of a magazine ♪
1260
01:24:58,126 --> 01:25:01,730
♪ She's too cute
to be a minute over 17 ♪
1261
01:25:04,834 --> 01:25:07,170
♪ Meanwhile I was thinkin'
1262
01:25:11,274 --> 01:25:14,544
♪ She's in the mood
No need to break it ♪
1263
01:25:14,577 --> 01:25:17,547
♪ I got a chance
I'll take it ♪
1264
01:25:17,580 --> 01:25:20,817
♪ If she can dance
we can make it ♪
1265
01:25:20,850 --> 01:25:23,987
♪ Come on, Queenie
let's shake it ♪
1266
01:25:24,020 --> 01:25:28,125
♪ I said, go, go, go
little Queenie ♪
1267
01:25:28,158 --> 01:25:30,127
Come on,
everybody say "Go!"
1268
01:25:30,160 --> 01:25:34,164
♪ I said go, go, go
little Queenie ♪
1269
01:25:36,333 --> 01:25:42,206
♪ I said go, go, go
little Queenie ♪
1270
01:25:42,239 --> 01:25:46,777
♪ There she is again standin'
over by the record machine ♪
1271
01:25:49,047 --> 01:25:54,886
♪ Lookin' like a model on
the cover of a Oui magazine ♪
1272
01:25:54,919 --> 01:26:00,325
♪ You know she's too cute
to be a minute over 17 ♪
1273
01:26:01,993 --> 01:26:05,830
♪ Meanwhile I was
still thinkin' ♪
1274
01:26:11,003 --> 01:26:14,040
♪ If it's a slow song
we'll omit it ♪
1275
01:26:14,073 --> 01:26:16,842
♪ If it's a rocker
I'll try to get it ♪
1276
01:26:16,876 --> 01:26:19,979
♪ If it's good
you all gonna admit it ♪
1277
01:26:20,012 --> 01:26:22,048
♪ Well, come on then
Let's get with it ♪
1278
01:26:22,081 --> 01:26:26,385
♪ I said, go, go, go
little Queenie ♪
1279
01:26:28,354 --> 01:26:32,392
♪ I said, go, go, go
little Queenie ♪
1280
01:26:35,128 --> 01:26:40,100
♪ I said, go, go, go
little Queenie ♪
1281
01:26:40,133 --> 01:26:42,436
Go, Keith, go!
1282
01:27:16,038 --> 01:27:19,208
My man, all right!
1283
01:27:19,241 --> 01:27:26,048
♪ There she is again standin'
over by the record machine ♪
1284
01:27:26,081 --> 01:27:31,920
♪ Lookin' like a model on
the cover of a Oui magazine ♪
1285
01:27:31,954 --> 01:27:36,993
♪ You know she's too cute
to be a minute over 17 ♪
1286
01:27:37,027 --> 01:27:42,198
♪ One more time I said,
go, go, go little Queenie ♪
1287
01:27:44,167 --> 01:27:47,270
♪ I said, go, go, go
little Queenie ♪
1288
01:27:51,107 --> 01:27:54,210
♪ I said, go, go, go
little Queenie ♪♪
1289
01:28:04,221 --> 01:28:07,458
I remember Alan Freed
tellin' me about...
1290
01:28:07,491 --> 01:28:11,529
somebody throwin' bricks through his
windows with a note wrapped around.
1291
01:28:11,562 --> 01:28:16,467
Tied around, and tellin' him that he's
gonna get run out of the neighborhood...
1292
01:28:16,500 --> 01:28:19,571
because he defied
the system.
1293
01:28:19,605 --> 01:28:22,074
The community tradition.
1294
01:28:22,107 --> 01:28:26,345
He defied them,
and then our good friend, Dick Clark,
1295
01:28:26,378 --> 01:28:32,417
came up with the television thing and started to puttin'
us thing and started to puttin' us American Bandstand.
1296
01:28:32,451 --> 01:28:36,321
We had something to sing, but we
couldn't dance. No, you couldn't dance.
1297
01:28:36,355 --> 01:28:38,323
We couldn't participate
in the audience.
1298
01:28:38,357 --> 01:28:40,459
Because if you're in the
audience, he'd let you out.
1299
01:28:40,492 --> 01:28:44,063
The station was owned
by people, I think,
1300
01:28:44,097 --> 01:28:48,434
that prohibited him
to go that far with us.
1301
01:28:48,468 --> 01:28:53,039
Why was it done?
Answer that for the record.
1302
01:28:53,072 --> 01:28:57,543
Why was it done if he didn't want it to be
done? He was the master of ceremonies.
1303
01:28:57,577 --> 01:29:01,281
I say this: It was still
a little Jewish boy...
1304
01:29:01,314 --> 01:29:04,084
that got it over the country
with Alan Freed.
1305
01:29:04,118 --> 01:29:06,287
Amen. Amen.
He still got it over the country.
1306
01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:11,025
And he did a good job.
I love you, Alan! Alan!
1307
01:29:11,058 --> 01:29:15,329
-You're darned right.
-It wasn't anything we were doing so wrongly.
1308
01:29:15,362 --> 01:29:18,365
It was just that people was so slow...
You were black!
1309
01:29:18,399 --> 01:29:20,501
To accept change.
You was black!
1310
01:29:20,534 --> 01:29:23,804
Tell him again.
Will you tell him, man, again?
1311
01:29:23,837 --> 01:29:27,275
You was black, and they didn't
want that black image over their kids.
1312
01:29:27,309 --> 01:29:30,378
You was a hero.
The kids was lookin' up to you.
1313
01:29:30,412 --> 01:29:33,114
They didn't want their kids lookin'
up-- - What kids? What kids?
1314
01:29:33,148 --> 01:29:36,484
They didn't want the white kids lookin'
up at this big ol' greasy black guy,
1315
01:29:36,518 --> 01:29:42,590
uh, uh, out of Georgia,
out of Mississippi or out of Chicago.
1316
01:29:42,624 --> 01:29:47,263
They want their kids to see a smooth
white boy looking pretty and all dudey.
1317
01:29:47,296 --> 01:29:50,499
And lookin' "rootie."
You know?
1318
01:29:50,533 --> 01:29:53,402
And so here's a black out there singing'
and screamin' and beamin' and steamin'.
1319
01:29:53,436 --> 01:29:55,838
They said, no, no, no!
1320
01:29:55,871 --> 01:29:59,308
And now, ladies and gentlemen,
here's the young fella--
1321
01:29:59,342 --> 01:30:04,480
As a matter of fact, he's right at
the age I was when I started out.
1322
01:30:04,513 --> 01:30:08,352
A beautiful, mellow,
ripe 29-ish, you know.
1323
01:30:08,385 --> 01:30:11,855
And a matter of fact, this dude
even looks like me. Let's bring him out.
1324
01:30:11,888 --> 01:30:14,458
Robert Cray!
1325
01:30:16,693 --> 01:30:20,063
Robert's gonna do
"Brown-eyed Handsome Man"!
1326
01:30:24,401 --> 01:30:26,470
Yo!
1327
01:30:26,503 --> 01:30:30,241
♪♪
1328
01:30:32,210 --> 01:30:35,413
♪ Arrested on charges
of unemployment ♪
1329
01:30:35,446 --> 01:30:38,583
♪ He was sittin'
in the witness stand ♪
1330
01:30:38,616 --> 01:30:41,252
♪ The judge's wife phoned
the district attorney ♪
1331
01:30:41,286 --> 01:30:43,421
♪ Said free that
brown-eyed man ♪
1332
01:30:43,454 --> 01:30:45,490
♪ You want your job You better
free that brown-eyed man ♪
1333
01:30:47,225 --> 01:30:49,694
♪ Flyin' across the desert
in a TWA ♪
1334
01:30:49,727 --> 01:30:53,198
♪ I saw a woman walkin'
across the sand ♪
1335
01:30:53,232 --> 01:30:58,170
♪ She'd been walkin' 30 miles en route to
Bombay to meet a brown-eyed handsome man ♪
1336
01:30:58,203 --> 01:31:01,507
♪ Her destination was
a brown-eyed handsome man ♪
1337
01:31:01,540 --> 01:31:05,144
♪ Way back in history
'bout 3,000 years ♪
1338
01:31:05,177 --> 01:31:07,913
♪ In fact, ever since the world began ♪
What happened, Bobby?
1339
01:31:07,947 --> 01:31:10,716
♪ There's been a whole lot
of good women sheddin' tears ♪
1340
01:31:10,749 --> 01:31:13,420
♪ About a brown-eyed
handsome man ♪
1341
01:31:13,453 --> 01:31:15,755
♪ A lot of trouble, a lot of trouble
♪ He's a brown-eyed, he's a brown-eyed handsome man ♪
1342
01:31:15,789 --> 01:31:19,659
Everybody!
1343
01:31:46,420 --> 01:31:49,657
♪ I know Venus
was a beautiful lass ♪
1344
01:31:49,690 --> 01:31:52,393
♪ She has the world
in the palm of her hand ♪
1345
01:31:52,426 --> 01:31:55,429
♪ She lost both arms
in a "wrastling" match ♪
1346
01:31:55,463 --> 01:31:57,566
♪ To win a brown-eyed
handsome-- ♪
1347
01:31:57,599 --> 01:32:00,636
♪ She fought and won herself
a brown-eyed handsome man ♪
1348
01:32:00,669 --> 01:32:07,409
♪ 2-3, the count,
nobody on He hit a high fly to the stands ♪
1349
01:32:07,442 --> 01:32:09,711
♪ Roundin' third
and headin' for home ♪
1350
01:32:09,745 --> 01:32:12,381
♪ It was a brown-eyed
handsome man ♪
1351
01:32:12,414 --> 01:32:15,417
♪ That won the game, it was
a brown-eyed handsome man ♪♪
1352
01:32:15,450 --> 01:32:19,255
♪♪
1353
01:32:31,834 --> 01:32:34,304
Robert Cray!
1354
01:32:34,337 --> 01:32:37,206
Robert Cray,
ladies and gentlemen!
1355
01:32:38,608 --> 01:32:41,845
Fran, how long have you
been working with Chuck?
1356
01:32:41,879 --> 01:32:44,848
Now I've been with him
just a little over 30 years.
1357
01:32:44,882 --> 01:32:49,453
30 years? Just a little over 30 years.
Not very long.
1358
01:32:49,486 --> 01:32:51,722
I started to say 'til Tuesday.
30 years and three weeks.
1359
01:32:51,755 --> 01:32:54,024
I've been here
since Tuesday.
1360
01:32:54,058 --> 01:32:59,430
How'd it start?
Casual Introduction. That's all.
1361
01:32:59,463 --> 01:33:02,734
He needed a secretary
and I needed a different change.
1362
01:33:02,767 --> 01:33:06,271
I was looking for change. You came to
hear the music at a rock and roll show.
1363
01:33:06,304 --> 01:33:10,508
Yes, so we went and saw Chuck Berry,
and I left the next day.
1364
01:33:11,643 --> 01:33:15,480
I was 21,
and I was here a year,
1365
01:33:15,513 --> 01:33:18,817
and we had already established our offices,
a nightclub.
1366
01:33:18,850 --> 01:33:21,720
We were owning and
operating two corporations.
1367
01:33:21,753 --> 01:33:23,823
That was a terrible load
on a 21-year-old.
1368
01:33:23,856 --> 01:33:26,325
They didn't know
what I was either.
1369
01:33:26,359 --> 01:33:28,394
They didn't know
if I was white or black.
1370
01:33:28,427 --> 01:33:30,496
A lot of 'em thought
you were my wife.
1371
01:33:30,529 --> 01:33:33,432
Yes, a lot of 'em thought I was his wife.
They still do.
1372
01:33:33,466 --> 01:33:36,702
They don't know, and they wouldn't ask.
They were too polite.
1373
01:33:36,736 --> 01:33:40,506
I have been married
since October the 28th--
1374
01:33:40,539 --> 01:33:42,475
It's hard for a man
to remember these things.
1375
01:33:42,508 --> 01:33:47,514
October 28, 1950-- 1948...
1376
01:33:47,547 --> 01:33:51,318
until, I guess,
it'd be about 2000...
1377
01:33:51,351 --> 01:33:55,856
before I even think
of separating.
1378
01:33:55,889 --> 01:33:59,893
But for all rock and roll
stars who go on the road,
1379
01:33:59,926 --> 01:34:03,664
they've got 40 million girls out
there screaming and yelling for them.
1380
01:34:03,697 --> 01:34:08,870
Is that hard? Is what hard?
Well, I'll tell you this.
1381
01:34:08,903 --> 01:34:12,540
No, it's not hard if you have
a conviction at your home.
1382
01:34:12,573 --> 01:34:16,644
If you keep the home fires burning,
you do what you wanna do.
1383
01:34:16,678 --> 01:34:20,648
And as I always said,
use discretion.
1384
01:34:20,682 --> 01:34:24,686
Be sensible about it.
Keep the home fires burning.
1385
01:34:24,719 --> 01:34:27,488
My name is
Themetta Silks Berry,
1386
01:34:27,522 --> 01:34:31,961
and I have been married
to Charles Berry for 38 years.
1387
01:34:31,994 --> 01:34:35,497
We have had
a wonderful marriage.
1388
01:34:35,531 --> 01:34:40,536
We love each other as much
as we did the day we met.
1389
01:34:40,569 --> 01:34:47,576
You'd been married about five years
before-- Baby, that's enough.
1390
01:34:47,609 --> 01:34:54,451
I remember him growing up
as a young man with a mechanical mind.
1391
01:34:54,484 --> 01:34:58,421
He stayed busy
all the time.
1392
01:34:58,455 --> 01:35:01,958
And I would say he would be,
in effect, a very unique person.
1393
01:35:01,992 --> 01:35:04,461
I'm a beautician by trade,
1394
01:35:04,494 --> 01:35:09,165
and Charles was interested in that
type of thing, and it influenced him.
1395
01:35:09,199 --> 01:35:12,603
He went to the same school I did
and graduated and everything,
1396
01:35:12,637 --> 01:35:15,606
and he started doing some of the
heads on tours when he would go on tours.
1397
01:35:15,640 --> 01:35:19,644
So he had a lot of fun doing that,
and I had a lot of fun asking him about it.
1398
01:35:19,677 --> 01:35:22,413
And he would try to do his hair and I
would see little flaws that he would make.
1399
01:35:22,446 --> 01:35:25,516
I guess the thing I remember
most about Chuck was...
1400
01:35:25,549 --> 01:35:28,753
he was a deep thinker and he
loved to hear and play the blues.
1401
01:35:28,786 --> 01:35:30,788
Chuck was
a very loving brother.
1402
01:35:30,821 --> 01:35:34,860
He used to go to bed
at 9:00 every night,
1403
01:35:34,893 --> 01:35:38,930
and every day, my mother
fed him Bulgarian buttermilk.
1404
01:35:38,964 --> 01:35:40,999
That's the reason why he's got
so much energy today.
1405
01:35:41,033 --> 01:35:44,670
♪♪
1406
01:35:55,848 --> 01:35:57,884
♪ Run into a throw
Hard workin' at the mill ♪
1407
01:35:57,917 --> 01:36:00,720
♪ Never fail in the mail
Boy, you get a rotten bill ♪
1408
01:36:00,753 --> 01:36:03,623
♪ Too much
monkey business ♪
1409
01:36:03,656 --> 01:36:06,059
♪ Too much
monkey business ♪
1410
01:36:06,092 --> 01:36:11,064
♪ Too much monkey business
for me to be involved in ♪
1411
01:36:11,097 --> 01:36:13,599
♪ Salesman talkin' to me
tryin' to run me up a creek ♪
1412
01:36:13,633 --> 01:36:16,837
♪ Say you can buy it Go on,
try it You can pay me next week ♪
1413
01:36:16,870 --> 01:36:19,673
♪ Too much
monkey business ♪
1414
01:36:19,707 --> 01:36:22,076
♪ Too much
monkey business ♪
1415
01:36:22,109 --> 01:36:27,614
♪ Too much monkey business
for me to be involved in ♪
1416
01:36:27,648 --> 01:36:29,883
♪ Blonde haired, good-lookin'
Tryin' to get him hooked ♪
1417
01:36:29,917 --> 01:36:32,987
♪ Want him to marry get a home
and settle down and write a book ♪
1418
01:36:33,020 --> 01:36:35,956
♪ Too much
monkey business ♪
1419
01:36:35,990 --> 01:36:38,093
♪ Too much
monkey business ♪
1420
01:36:38,126 --> 01:36:41,563
♪ Too much monkey business
for me to be involved in ♪
1421
01:36:41,596 --> 01:36:43,531
Go, Keith, go, go, go!
1422
01:36:43,565 --> 01:36:47,502
♪♪
1423
01:37:15,698 --> 01:37:18,634
♪ Same thing every day
gettin' up and goin' to school ♪
1424
01:37:18,668 --> 01:37:21,672
♪ No need of you complainin'
Your objection's overruled Yeah ♪
1425
01:37:21,705 --> 01:37:24,107
♪ Too much
monkey business ♪
1426
01:37:24,141 --> 01:37:26,643
♪ Too much
monkey business ♪
1427
01:37:26,677 --> 01:37:29,079
♪ Too much monkey business
for me to be involved in ♪
1428
01:37:31,782 --> 01:37:34,017
♪ Pay phone, something wrong
dime's gone ♪
1429
01:37:34,051 --> 01:37:37,721
♪ We'll mail I oughta sue the operator
She's tellin' me a tale ♪
1430
01:37:37,754 --> 01:37:39,956
♪ Too much
monkey business ♪
1431
01:37:39,990 --> 01:37:42,626
♪ Too much
monkey business ♪
1432
01:37:42,659 --> 01:37:45,029
♪ Too much monkey business
for me to be involved in ♪
1433
01:37:47,999 --> 01:37:50,034
♪ A friend of Yokohama
been fightin' in the war ♪
1434
01:37:50,068 --> 01:37:53,338
♪ Army bunk, army shower
army clothes, army car ♪
1435
01:37:53,371 --> 01:37:55,907
♪ Too much-- whoa ♪
1436
01:37:55,940 --> 01:37:58,710
♪ Too much
monkey business ♪
1437
01:37:58,743 --> 01:38:02,013
♪ Too much monkey business
for me to be involved in ♪
1438
01:38:03,982 --> 01:38:06,151
♪ Workin' in the fillin' station
Too many tabs ♪
1439
01:38:06,185 --> 01:38:08,787
♪ Wipe the windows check
the tires check the oil, no gas ♪
1440
01:38:08,821 --> 01:38:12,157
Hah!
♪ Too much monkey business ♪
1441
01:38:12,191 --> 01:38:14,660
♪ Too much
monkey business ♪
1442
01:38:14,693 --> 01:38:18,731
♪ Too much monkey business
for me to be involved in ♪♪
1443
01:38:26,138 --> 01:38:29,676
Chuck has had a couple of run-ins
with the law and had problems.
1444
01:38:29,709 --> 01:38:32,746
Come on, come on.
No, I don't want it.
1445
01:38:32,779 --> 01:38:36,082
I don't want to hear about it.
I don't wanna hear about it.
1446
01:38:36,116 --> 01:38:40,186
We'll talk about that at the proper place,
not over the desk here.
1447
01:38:41,855 --> 01:38:44,958
♪ Ridin' along
in my automobile ♪
1448
01:38:44,991 --> 01:38:48,195
♪ My baby's beside me
at the wheel ♪
1449
01:38:48,229 --> 01:38:51,732
♪ I stole a kiss
a the turn of a mile ♪
1450
01:38:51,766 --> 01:38:54,802
♪ My curiosity runnin' wild ♪
1451
01:38:54,835 --> 01:38:58,239
♪ Cruisin' and playin'
the radio ♪
1452
01:38:58,272 --> 01:39:01,142
♪ With no particular
place to go ♪
1453
01:39:01,175 --> 01:39:04,912
♪ Ridin' along
in my automobile ♪
1454
01:39:04,945 --> 01:39:08,249
♪ I was anxious to tell her
the way I feel ♪
1455
01:39:08,282 --> 01:39:11,953
♪ So I whispered
softly and sincere ♪
1456
01:39:11,987 --> 01:39:15,023
♪ She leaned and put something
in my ear ♪
1457
01:39:15,057 --> 01:39:18,060
♪ Cruisin' far
and drivin' slow ♪
1458
01:39:18,093 --> 01:39:21,930
♪ With no particular
place to go ♪
1459
01:39:21,963 --> 01:39:25,767
♪♪
1460
01:39:41,718 --> 01:39:45,088
♪ Ridin' along the Kokomo ♪
1461
01:39:45,121 --> 01:39:48,124
♪ With no particular
place to go ♪
1462
01:39:48,157 --> 01:39:51,694
♪ The night was young
and the moon was gold ♪
1463
01:39:51,728 --> 01:39:55,032
♪ We both decided
to take a stroll ♪
1464
01:39:55,065 --> 01:39:58,168
♪ Can you imagine
the way I felt ♪
1465
01:39:58,202 --> 01:40:01,772
♪ I couldn't unfasten
the safety belt ♪
1466
01:40:01,805 --> 01:40:04,875
♪ Ridin' along
in that calaboose ♪
1467
01:40:04,908 --> 01:40:08,045
♪ Still tryin'
to get that belt loose ♪
1468
01:40:08,078 --> 01:40:11,949
♪ All the way home
I held a grudge ♪
1469
01:40:11,982 --> 01:40:14,886
♪ The safety belt
just wouldn't budge ♪
1470
01:40:14,919 --> 01:40:18,089
♪ Cruisin' and playin'
the radio ♪
1471
01:40:18,123 --> 01:40:20,825
♪ With no particular
place to go ♪
1472
01:40:20,859 --> 01:40:23,194
One more, one more!
1473
01:40:23,228 --> 01:40:27,032
♪♪
1474
01:40:43,115 --> 01:40:45,318
That's all, folks!
1475
01:40:59,900 --> 01:41:04,304
Ladies and gentlemen, "Wee,
Wee Hours" with Eric Clapton!
1476
01:41:14,848 --> 01:41:18,018
Man of the blues!
1477
01:41:18,051 --> 01:41:24,025
♪♪
1478
01:41:27,228 --> 01:41:31,165
♪ In the wee wee hour ♪
1479
01:41:31,199 --> 01:41:35,837
♪ That's when
I think of you ♪
1480
01:41:42,378 --> 01:41:46,382
♪ In the wee wee hour ♪
1481
01:41:46,415 --> 01:41:49,051
♪ That's when
I think of you ♪
1482
01:41:58,027 --> 01:42:01,397
♪ You say again
I wonder ♪
1483
01:42:01,430 --> 01:42:04,200
♪ If our love
was ever true ♪
1484
01:42:04,234 --> 01:42:08,038
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Sing the song, Eric!
1485
01:42:12,342 --> 01:42:16,346
♪ In a wee little room ♪
1486
01:42:16,379 --> 01:42:20,383
♪ I sit alone
thinkin' of you ♪
1487
01:42:27,258 --> 01:42:31,862
♪ In a wee little room
1488
01:42:31,896 --> 01:42:35,066
♪ I sit alone
and think of you ♪
1489
01:42:42,373 --> 01:42:46,310
♪ I wonder if
you still remember ♪
1490
01:42:46,344 --> 01:42:49,381
♪ All the little things
we used to do ♪
1491
01:42:54,219 --> 01:42:57,322
Johnnie Johnson!
1492
01:42:57,356 --> 01:43:01,193
♪♪
1493
01:43:42,970 --> 01:43:46,974
♪ One little song ♪
1494
01:43:47,007 --> 01:43:49,443
♪ For a fading memory ♪
1495
01:43:58,086 --> 01:44:02,157
♪ One little song ♪
1496
01:44:02,190 --> 01:44:06,061
♪ For a fading memory ♪
1497
01:44:13,134 --> 01:44:18,441
♪ Of the one
I really love ♪
1498
01:44:18,474 --> 01:44:21,210
♪ The only one for me ♪
1499
01:44:23,479 --> 01:44:27,416
♪♪
1500
01:45:06,124 --> 01:45:08,092
Take another one!
Take another one!
1501
01:46:00,447 --> 01:46:03,351
How 'bout it?
How 'bout it?
1502
01:46:03,384 --> 01:46:05,553
Is he all right?
1503
01:46:05,586 --> 01:46:09,590
Eric Clapton, ladies and gentlemen!
Man of the blues!
1504
01:46:21,469 --> 01:46:24,139
And now!
1505
01:46:24,172 --> 01:46:27,509
Fantastic!
She's Fabulous!
1506
01:46:27,542 --> 01:46:32,581
Tremendous!
Powerful! Dynamite!
1507
01:46:32,614 --> 01:46:37,185
Lady of the blues,
Miss Etta James!
1508
01:46:37,219 --> 01:46:40,522
Come here, baby!
1509
01:46:43,659 --> 01:46:46,429
This is my girl!
1510
01:46:52,201 --> 01:46:56,372
♪ Just let me here some of that rock 'n' roll music ♪
♪ Hey ♪
1511
01:46:56,406 --> 01:46:59,609
-♪ Any old way you choose it ♪
-♪ One more time ♪
1512
01:46:59,642 --> 01:47:02,712
♪ It's got a backbeat you can't lose it ♪
♪ Go ahead, baby ♪
1513
01:47:02,745 --> 01:47:05,915
♪ Any old way you choose it ♪
♪ Yes, darlin' ♪
1514
01:47:05,948 --> 01:47:08,686
♪ It's gotta be rock 'n' roll music ♪
♪ Uh-huh ♪
1515
01:47:08,719 --> 01:47:12,256
-♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪
-♪ Yeah ♪
1516
01:47:12,289 --> 01:47:14,191
♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪
1517
01:47:14,224 --> 01:47:17,394
♪ I have no kick against modern jazz ♪
♪ All right ♪
1518
01:47:17,428 --> 01:47:20,631
♪ Unless they try to play it too darn fast ♪
♪ Know what you mean ♪
1519
01:47:20,664 --> 01:47:23,500
♪ And change the beauty of the melody ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
1520
01:47:23,534 --> 01:47:26,370
♪ Until it sounds like a symphony ♪
♪ Yeah, I got it ♪
1521
01:47:26,403 --> 01:47:30,575
♪ That's why I go for that rock 'n' roll music ♪
♪ Don't blame you ♪
1522
01:47:30,608 --> 01:47:33,712
♪ Where any old time you use it ♪
♪ You can feel it ♪
1523
01:47:33,745 --> 01:47:37,749
♪ It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it ♪
♪ I know what you mean ♪
1524
01:47:37,782 --> 01:47:40,585
♪ Any old way you choose it ♪
♪ Anytime ♪
1525
01:47:40,618 --> 01:47:43,388
♪ It's gotta be rock 'n' roll music ♪
♪ Put it on ♪
1526
01:47:43,421 --> 01:47:47,258
♪ If you want
to dance with me ♪
1527
01:47:47,292 --> 01:47:48,793
♪ If you want
to dance with me ♪
1528
01:47:48,827 --> 01:47:52,331
♪ Way down south
they gave a jubilee ♪
1529
01:47:52,365 --> 01:47:55,334
♪ The country folks
they had a jamboree ♪
1530
01:47:55,368 --> 01:47:58,437
♪ They're drinkin' home brew
from a wooden cup ♪
1531
01:47:58,471 --> 01:48:02,274
♪ And started playin'
"All Shook Up" ♪
1532
01:48:02,308 --> 01:48:05,978
♪ I started that rock 'n' roll music ♪
♪ Again ♪
1533
01:48:06,012 --> 01:48:09,515
♪ Or any old way you choose it ♪
♪ One more time ♪
1534
01:48:09,548 --> 01:48:12,652
♪ It's got a backbeat You can't lose it ♪
♪ Twist the thing ♪
1535
01:48:12,686 --> 01:48:15,822
♪ Or any old way you choose it ♪
♪ Sing the song ♪
1536
01:48:15,856 --> 01:48:18,492
♪ It's gotta be rock and roll music ♪
♪ Say it again ♪
1537
01:48:18,525 --> 01:48:22,295
♪ If you want
to dance with me ♪
1538
01:48:22,329 --> 01:48:24,297
♪ If you want
to dance with me ♪
1539
01:48:24,331 --> 01:48:27,434
♪ Don't care to hear them
do the tango ♪
1540
01:48:27,467 --> 01:48:30,537
♪ I'm in no mood ♪
♪ I'm in no mood to do the mambo ♪
1541
01:48:30,570 --> 01:48:33,474
♪ It's way to early
for the congo ♪
1542
01:48:33,508 --> 01:48:36,644
♪ So keep a-rockin'
that piano ♪
1543
01:48:36,678 --> 01:48:41,349
♪ So I can hear
that rock 'n' roll music ♪
1544
01:48:41,382 --> 01:48:44,318
♪ Any old way ♪
♪ Any old way you choose it ♪
1545
01:48:44,352 --> 01:48:47,288
♪ It's got a backbeat, zt's got a backbeat ♪
♪ You can't lose it ♪ - ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
1546
01:48:47,321 --> 01:48:51,259
♪ Any old way
you choose it ♪
1547
01:48:51,292 --> 01:48:54,762
♪ It's gotta be
rock 'n' roll music ♪
1548
01:48:54,796 --> 01:48:57,466
♪ If you want to dance with me
Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
1549
01:48:57,499 --> 01:49:00,502
♪ It's gotta be
rock 'n' roll music ♪
1550
01:49:00,536 --> 01:49:02,805
♪ Any old way
you choose it ♪
1551
01:49:02,838 --> 01:49:06,675
♪ It's gotta be
rock 'n' roll music ♪
1552
01:49:06,709 --> 01:49:09,845
♪ Any old way
you choose it ♪
1553
01:49:09,878 --> 01:49:12,381
♪ It's gotta be
rock 'n' roll music ♪
1554
01:49:12,414 --> 01:49:17,387
♪ Eh-eh, eh-eh,
eh-eh-eh-eh ♪
1555
01:49:19,656 --> 01:49:22,592
♪ Any old way
you choose it ♪
1556
01:49:22,625 --> 01:49:26,496
♪ It's got a backbeat
You can't lose it ♪
1557
01:49:26,529 --> 01:49:28,832
♪ Any old way ♪
♪ Any old way you choose it ♪
1558
01:49:28,865 --> 01:49:32,635
♪ It's gotta be ♪
♪ It's gotta be rock 'n' roll music ♪
1559
01:49:32,669 --> 01:49:35,805
♪ If you wanna dance
with me ♪
1560
01:49:35,839 --> 01:49:38,776
♪ If you wanna dance
with me ♪
1561
01:49:38,809 --> 01:49:42,279
♪ If you wanna dance
with me ♪♪
1562
01:49:45,916 --> 01:49:49,787
Etta James! Etta James!
1563
01:49:49,820 --> 01:49:53,691
Keith Richards!
Give her a big hug!
1564
01:49:53,724 --> 01:49:56,660
Oh! Wow!
1565
01:49:56,694 --> 01:50:00,766
As long as the music has
something do with your walk of life,
1566
01:50:00,799 --> 01:50:03,402
I think the people
will listen.
1567
01:50:03,435 --> 01:50:05,570
And so that's why
I wrote about schools.
1568
01:50:05,604 --> 01:50:07,673
Half of the young people
go to school.
1569
01:50:07,706 --> 01:50:10,809
And, uh,
and I wrote about life.
1570
01:50:10,842 --> 01:50:14,479
Half of the people have cars.
I wrote about cars.
1571
01:50:14,513 --> 01:50:19,518
And most of all the people, if
they're not now, they'll soon be in love.
1572
01:50:19,551 --> 01:50:22,121
And those that have loved,
and are out of love...
1573
01:50:22,155 --> 01:50:25,558
remember love
so I write about love.
1574
01:50:25,591 --> 01:50:28,628
So I wrote about all three, and I thought
I hit a pretty good capacity of the people.
1575
01:50:28,661 --> 01:50:33,566
♪♪
1576
01:50:53,487 --> 01:50:56,590
♪ Up in the mornin'
and off to school ♪
1577
01:50:56,623 --> 01:50:59,626
♪ Teachers are teachin'
the golden rule ♪
1578
01:50:59,660 --> 01:51:02,463
♪ American history
and practical math ♪
1579
01:51:02,496 --> 01:51:05,967
♪ Study hard
and hope to pass ♪
1580
01:51:06,000 --> 01:51:09,604
♪ Workin' your fingers
right down to the bone ♪
1581
01:51:09,637 --> 01:51:12,607
♪ And the guy behind you
won't leave you alone ♪
1582
01:51:12,640 --> 01:51:16,444
♪ Soon as three o'clock
rolls around ♪
1583
01:51:16,478 --> 01:51:19,614
♪ You finally
lay your burden down ♪
1584
01:51:19,647 --> 01:51:22,517
♪ Close up your books
Get out of your seat ♪
1585
01:51:22,550 --> 01:51:26,021
♪ Down the halls
and into the street ♪
1586
01:51:26,054 --> 01:51:28,958
♪ To the corner
and round the bend ♪
1587
01:51:28,991 --> 01:51:32,461
♪ Right the juke joint
you go in ♪
1588
01:51:32,495 --> 01:51:35,898
♪ Drop the coin
right in the slot ♪
1589
01:51:35,931 --> 01:51:38,901
♪ Gotta hear somethin'
that's really hot ♪
1590
01:51:38,934 --> 01:51:42,038
♪ With the one you love
you're makin' romance ♪
1591
01:51:42,071 --> 01:51:45,574
♪ All day long
we've been wantin' to dance ♪
1592
01:51:45,608 --> 01:51:48,779
♪ Feelin' good
from head to toe ♪
1593
01:51:48,812 --> 01:51:51,948
Everybody repeat after me.
1594
01:51:51,982 --> 01:51:55,552
♪ Hail, hail rock 'n' roll ♪
1595
01:51:55,585 --> 01:51:59,022
♪ Delivery me from
the days of old ♪
1596
01:51:59,056 --> 01:52:02,526
♪ Long live rock 'n' roll ♪
1597
01:52:02,559 --> 01:52:05,662
♪ The beat of the drums
loud and bold ♪
1598
01:52:05,696 --> 01:52:08,899
♪ Rock, rock
rock 'n' roll ♪
1599
01:52:08,932 --> 01:52:11,669
♪ The feeling is there
body and soul ♪
1600
01:52:11,703 --> 01:52:15,540
Come on up here, Ingrid.
Come on!
1601
01:52:15,573 --> 01:52:18,042
Come on up here, Etta!
1602
01:52:18,076 --> 01:52:21,979
Come on, Julian!
1603
01:52:22,013 --> 01:52:25,249
-Let me hear you say "Yeah"!
-Yeah!
1604
01:52:25,283 --> 01:52:28,686
♪ We're gonna say bye-bye ♪
1605
01:52:28,720 --> 01:52:31,857
♪ Bye, bye, bye ♪
1606
01:52:31,890 --> 01:52:36,562
♪ Bye, bye, bye ♪
1607
01:52:36,595 --> 01:52:41,734
♪ Bye, bye, bye, baby ♪
1608
01:52:46,038 --> 01:52:49,575
One word from
Keith Richards!
1609
01:52:49,608 --> 01:52:54,547
Good night, ladies and gentlemen.
Good night, Chuck.
1610
01:52:54,581 --> 01:52:58,051
I'm walkin' out of
this gig feelin' very happy.
1611
01:52:58,084 --> 01:53:00,754
And for the band!
1612
01:53:00,787 --> 01:53:03,623
I wanted to serve Chuck
up with a good band, and I did it,
1613
01:53:03,656 --> 01:53:06,893
and that was my gig,
no matter what happened.
1614
01:53:06,926 --> 01:53:11,931
Hail! Hail!
Rock 'n' roll!
1615
01:53:11,965 --> 01:53:15,703
We said this months ago over here,
this isn't going to be easy.
1616
01:53:15,736 --> 01:53:19,073
We knew that this is gonna
go on until it's finished.
1617
01:53:19,106 --> 01:53:22,910
And it was even
going on onstage.
1618
01:53:24,612 --> 01:53:27,748
Uh...
1619
01:53:27,782 --> 01:53:32,620
But you cannot-- I cannot dislike the guy,
even so.
1620
01:53:32,653 --> 01:53:38,026
He gives me more headaches than
Mick Jagger, but I still can't dislike him.
1621
01:53:38,060 --> 01:53:43,932
I can't.
I mean, I love him, and I love his family.
1622
01:53:43,965 --> 01:53:48,103
I've done what
I wanted to do for him.
1623
01:53:50,706 --> 01:53:53,141
He's a good man, cool.
1624
01:53:53,175 --> 01:53:56,178
Now I'm gonna sleep
for a month.
1625
01:53:56,211 --> 01:54:00,049
Chuck Berry,
when he's remembered,
1626
01:54:00,083 --> 01:54:02,118
what do you want
people to say?
1627
01:54:02,151 --> 01:54:05,922
I'll tell you what.
I could say--
1628
01:54:05,955 --> 01:54:09,926
I won't know.
It is out of my department after I'm gone.
1629
01:54:09,959 --> 01:54:12,128
But whatever it be,
1630
01:54:12,161 --> 01:54:16,966
I just hope it's real and it's
a fact which will be the truth.
1631
01:54:16,999 --> 01:54:20,069
That's it.
I hope they'll just speak the truth.
1632
01:54:20,103 --> 01:54:24,875
Be it pro, con,
bad, good.
1633
01:54:24,908 --> 01:54:27,111
I was going to say black and white,
but it wouldn't be right.
1634
01:54:30,147 --> 01:54:32,816
He decided to write a book,
make a movie,
1635
01:54:32,850 --> 01:54:35,386
and he opened the door and he
thought he could just let a few people in,
1636
01:54:35,419 --> 01:54:37,955
and goddamn it,
the whole world came in.
1637
01:54:37,988 --> 01:54:40,624
He thought he could control
how many came in,
1638
01:54:40,657 --> 01:54:43,828
but suddenly the outside world
flooded in,
1639
01:54:43,862 --> 01:54:46,064
and that's maybe what's
so intriguing about him.
1640
01:54:46,097 --> 01:54:50,168
The more you find out about him,
the less you know about him.
1641
01:54:52,670 --> 01:54:55,073
A little dream castle.
The shades are all drawn.
1642
01:55:06,152 --> 01:55:10,122
♪ A little dream castle ♪
1643
01:55:10,156 --> 01:55:14,427
♪ With everything gone ♪
1644
01:55:14,460 --> 01:55:17,797
♪ It's lonely and silent ♪
1645
01:55:17,830 --> 01:55:22,034
♪ The shades are all drawn ♪
1646
01:55:22,068 --> 01:55:29,943
♪ And my heart is heavy
as I gaze upon ♪
1647
01:55:29,976 --> 01:55:34,147
♪ A cottage for sale ♪
1648
01:55:37,217 --> 01:55:40,187
♪ The lawn we were proud of ♪
1649
01:55:40,220 --> 01:55:45,125
♪ Is glowing in hay ♪
1650
01:55:45,158 --> 01:55:48,029
♪ Our little dream garden ♪
1651
01:55:48,062 --> 01:55:52,934
♪ Has withered away ♪
1652
01:55:52,967 --> 01:55:56,137
♪ Where you planted roses ♪
1653
01:55:56,170 --> 01:56:00,041
♪ The weeds stand to say ♪
1654
01:56:01,175 --> 01:56:04,245
♪ A cottage for sale ♪
1655
01:56:08,316 --> 01:56:12,121
♪ Through every
single window ♪
1656
01:56:12,154 --> 01:56:15,190
♪ There's empty space ♪
1657
01:56:15,224 --> 01:56:19,862
♪ When I reach
that window ♪
1658
01:56:19,895 --> 01:56:25,934
♪ There's empty space ♪
1659
01:56:25,968 --> 01:56:30,273
♪ They key's in the mailbox ♪
1660
01:56:30,306 --> 01:56:35,078
♪ The same as before ♪
1661
01:56:35,111 --> 01:56:42,819
♪ But no one is waiting
for me anymore ♪
1662
01:56:42,852 --> 01:56:49,826
♪ The end of my story
is told on the door ♪
1663
01:56:49,859 --> 01:56:54,031
♪ A cottage for sale ♪
1664
01:56:54,065 --> 01:56:57,234
♪ Oh-oh ♪
1665
01:56:57,268 --> 01:57:02,073
♪ It's just a cottage ♪
1666
01:57:02,106 --> 01:57:05,309
♪ For sale ♪