Research Catalog

Title

Brown eyed handsome man : the life and hard times of Chuck Berry : an unauthorized biography / Bruce Pegg.

Author

Pegg, Bruce.

Publication

New York ; London : Routledge, 2002.

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Details

Description

x, 318 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry draws on voluminous public records and dozens of interviews done by the author himself to paint a complete picture of this complicated figure." "Now, independent author Bruce Pegg has located Berry's friends, lawyers, business associates, and fellow musicians to illuminate a complicated life story. While sympathetic and admiring of Berry, Pegg does not paint an entirely rosy picture, placing Berry's life both within the larger African-American cultural experience and the world of mid-century American popular music. In doing so, he offers what should be the definitive portrait of one of the greatest stars of rock and roll, a story that will appeal to all fans of American popular music."--Jacket.

Subject

• Berry, Chuck
• Rock musicians > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes discography (p. [259]-268), bibliographical references (p. [295]-302), and index.

Contents

Prologue: Grand Avenue -- The Ville -- "De Sun Do Move" -- Maybellene -- Breaking White -- Deliver Me from the Days of Old -- Windermere Place -- Club Bandstand -- The Mask -- St. Louis Blues -- "Never Saw a Man So Changed" -- Mercury Falling -- Back Home -- The Whole World Knows the Music, Nobody Knows the Man -- Wentzville and St. Charles -- Johnson v. Berry -- Epilogue: Blueberry Hill.

ISBN

0415937485

OCLC

• 50526907
• SCSB-10158740

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library