7/27/2023 0 Comments Live from the ville![]() Louis was segregated and discriminatory, as Pegg points out in the new “In their Own Words” episode about Berry’s life. ![]() These characteristics would serve the musician well throughout his career.īut not everything about Berry’s upbringing was beautiful. “From 5 to 9 years, all that I heard around the house was poetry,” the late legend recalls in a soon-to-premiere documentary from PBS.īerry biographer Bruce Pegg credits the musician’s mother, a trained schoolteacher, with instilling that early love of art, and Berry’s father with passing down a spirit of independence and entrepreneurship to his son. Louis’ vibrant Ville neighborhood - and learning to love poetry. ![]() In the 1930s, long before he became “the father of rock ’n’ roll,” Chuck Berry was a boy in St. ![]()
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