Andy Gill, The Word, February 2011
ON 5th MARCH 1960, the same day that his rival Elvis Presley was being discharged from the army and welcomed back as an all-American icon, Chuck Berry was on trial in St Louis, charged with transporting a 14-year-old Apache prostitute across state lines for "immoral purposes".
Total word count of piece: 487
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