Chuck Berry: Systemic Racism, Sexual Depravity and the Invention of Rock ‘N’ Roll
DISGRACELAND
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4.6 • 13.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Chuck Berry was imprisoned numerous times. He was a victim of violent systemic racism and accused of horrific acts of sexual depravity. He also invented rock ‘n’ roll. Chuck Berry was as complex a character as he was influential as a musician. Throughout his career he found himself in numerous dust ups with authorities; some of them justified, most of them not. And through it all, whether he cared or didn’t, Chuck Berry made great music—literally some of the greatest music ever made.
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| 0:00.0 | Double Elvis |
| 0:05.0 | How did Malcolm finally gain his cat's respect? |
| 0:10.0 | Was it because he saved 35% on Trainline and bravely looked into the eyes of his dismissive |
| 0:16.0 | pet where he saw something that said, |
| 0:19.0 | I don't actually hate you. |
| 0:22.0 | His Trainline to thank for Malcolm gaining his cat's respect. |
| 0:26.0 | We hope so. We really do. Great journey start with Trainline. |
| 0:31.0 | Leverage savings from advanced fairs, rail carts and split save wherever available versus equivalent flexible fair TNC's apply. |
| 0:37.0 | Discrease and as a production of Double Elvis. |
| 0:41.0 | The stories about Chuck Berry are insane. |
| 0:47.0 | He was in prison numerous times of victim of violent systemic racism and accused of horrific acts of sexual depravity. |
| 0:56.0 | He also invented rock and roll, but more on that later. |
| 1:00.0 | Chuck Berry was his complex experience in the past. |
| 1:05.0 | He also invented rock and roll, but more on that later. |
| 1:09.0 | Chuck Berry was his complex of characters. He was influential as a musician, |
| 1:14.0 | pending some of rock and roll's earliest and most consequential hits, |
| 1:18.0 | as well as an autobiography that reads like a first person account of the genre's big bang theory. |
| 1:24.0 | Throughout his career, he found himself in numerous dust-ups with authorities, some of it justified, most of it not. |
| 1:31.0 | And through it all, whether he cared or didn't, Chuck Berry made great music, literally some of the greatest music ever made. |
| 1:39.0 | Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music. |
| 1:44.0 | That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Knickies Cab Kiss MK2. |
| 1:51.0 | I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to another day in paradise by Phil Collins. |
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