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Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987)

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User Rating: 7.3/10 (408 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Taylor Hackford
Release Date:
9 October 1987 (USA) more
Tagline:
The Whole World Knows the Music. Nobody Knows the Man.
Plot:
This documentary covers the concert at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri, to celebrate Chuck Berry's sixtieth birthday... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
What you see is what you get! more

Cast

 (Credited cast)
Chuck Berry ... Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ingrid Berry ... Herself

Eric Clapton ... Himself
Robert Cray ... Himself
Bo Diddley ... Himself
Ahmet Ertegun ... Himself - DVD only
Don Everly ... Himself
Phil Everly ... Himself
Etta James ... Herself
Johnnie Johnson ... Himself
Steve Jordan ... Himself
Bobby Keys ... Himself
Chuck Leavell ... Himself

John Lennon ... Himself
Julian Lennon ... Himself
Jerry Lee Lewis ... Himself - DVD only
Little Richard ... Himself
Roy Orbison ... Himself - DVD only
Keith Richards ... Himself

Robbie Robertson ... Himself - DVD only
Linda Ronstadt ... Herself
Joey Spampinato ... Himself - Bass Player (Bass Player)
Bruce Springsteen ... Himself
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Additional Details

Runtime:
120 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
Australia:PG | Iceland:L | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Finland:S | USA:PG
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Company:
Delilah Films more

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Trivia:
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce voted to give Chuck Berry a star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame a couple of years before this film was made. The star was never dedicated because nobody was willing to step forward to pay for it. In order to help promote the film, Universal Pictures paid for the star and it was dedicated the same week the film was released. more
Quotes:
Keith Richards: He gave me more headaches than Mick Jagger, but I still can't dislike him. more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
What you see is what you get!, 7 June 2002
10/10
Author: bndalton from Missouri

If you hear anything bad about this documentary, stop listening. If you don't smile while watching the concert footage, you don't love rock 'n' roll. Betty is a complicated, intelligent, real human being with all the frailties that includes...but he is a generous showman who personifies rock music. If there was any doubt who the father of rock 'n' roll was, with all due respect to the King, there is none after watching this absorbing, if incomplete, biopic about Chuck Berry. Don't rent it - buy it. Today.

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