Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll | movie | 2018 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00This is a 73. When I went to sell it, they only wanted to give me $3,000 for it. And it was worth 10.

00:08He's king of rock and roll.

00:09This is a 77 I bought in California. Had it all goosed up.

00:14$4,000? No.

00:16He's really laid the law down for playing that kind of music.

00:20None of them wanted to give me what I wanted for it.

00:23That's all they set here. I'll let them set 20 years, and then I'll sell them to you for $50,000.

00:38The whole world knows the music.

00:44Nobody knows the man.

00:46Leave an amp as I said it. That's my amp.

00:49That's the way Chuck Berry plays it.

00:52You've got to live with it afterwards.

00:54I've been living for 60 years with it.

00:56He's the only guy that's hit me that I never got back.

01:01You was black.

01:02Tell him again. Will you tell him man again?

01:04You was black, and they didn't want that black image over the kids.

01:08What kids? What kids?

01:09They didn't want the white kids looking up as this big old greasy black guy.

01:12They want the kids to look smooth white boy, looking pretty, and on duty, and looking rudy.

01:19Rudy.

01:21Hey, Dee.

01:23Honey, is that you?

01:25Riding along in my automobile.

01:27That's why I go for that rock and roll of music.

01:31Don't play it.

01:33I'm 65, 70.

01:36I got my grandkids.

01:38Chuck Berry, yeah.

01:40I met Chuck Berry.

01:41Matter of fact, I had backed Chuck Berry up one night.

01:45You did?

01:46Yeah.

01:47I stopped and I'm living in the USA.

01:50Musical performances by Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, Eddie James, Julian Lennon, Keith Richards, and Linda Ronstadt in a Taylor Hackberg film.

01:59Everybody repeat after me.

02:02Hail, hail, rock and roll.

02:04He gave his life to the music.

02:06From the days of all.

02:07They gave him the concert of his life.

02:09Hail, hail, rock and roll.

02:10Hail, hail, rock and roll.

02:12The more you find out about it, the less you know about it.

02:17Rock and roll.

02:18And he's out by his own.

02:23And he said, yeah.

02:25We're gonna say bye-bye.

02:28Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye.

Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll | movie | 2018 | Official Trailer

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