Chuck Berry: Rainbow Theatre, London
Philip Norman, Sunday Times, 1976
IT IS MORE than 20 years since the world first laid startled eyes on a young man with a crouching gait and a skinny guitar who sang songs about High School, about girls called Maybellene, and Cadillacs and Coup de Villes.
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