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Who The Hell Does Chuck Berry Think He Is?

Tom Hibbert, Q, May 1988

They called him The Inventor Of Rock 'n' Roll. And this, apparently, gave him the right to ride roughshod over all of them for 30 years, extracting hefty wedges from luckless promoters, slighting his fellow musicians, short-changing his fans and subjecting fair maidens to his oily and unappetising advances.

Tom Hibbert has three minutes but only one question…

Who the hell does CHUCK BERRY think he is?

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