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Chuck Berry and those who influenced him

Charlie Gillett, Let It Rock, April 1973

ONE THING everybody agrees about: the 'forties was a bad time for music. The big bands of the thirties got sweeter and sweeter before falling apart, and the big beat of rhythm and blues had not got moving.

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