The Boston Herald, November 10th, 2002
Byline: Marc Flores "Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry" by Bruce Pegg (Routledge, $29.95). Most remember Chuck Berry as a zoot-suit-clad, duck-walking, troubadour of teenage angst. This is an image Berry himself underlined in his 1987 book, "The Autobiography." But in a new biography of the black rock 'n' roll idol, Bruce Pegg, a Syracuse University writing professor, says this is not the whole story. Pegg presents Berry as a control freak and skinflint who brought as much discord as showmanship to rock music. He looks at a life colored by controversy, revisiti...
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