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Chuck Berry in Hail! Hail! Mr Rock & Roll

David Burke, Vintage Rock, 2017

CHUCK BERRY WAS "more complicated, more difficult, more diabolical" than any movie star, according to the man who directed him in Hail! Hail! Rock'n'Roll. Yet for all that, Taylor Hackford "totally loved him".

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