News Archive - January 2006

News Archive

Chuck Berry concert documentary coming to DVD
Thursday, 26. January 2006 - 18:30

A press bulletin from Reuters:

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Chuck Berry concert documentary coming to DVD
Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:50 AM ET

By Thomas K. Arnold

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Image Entertainment has secured DVD rights to
"Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll," the seminal Chuck Berry movie masterminded by Keith Richards.

The firm will release two-disc and four-disc editions with never- before-seen footage,
documentaries, interviews and other bonus materials on June 27.

The 1987 film, which captures a St. Louis concert commemorating Berry's 60th birthday the
year before, features such stars as Eric Clapton, Etta James, Robert Cray, Linda Ronstadt
and Julian Lennon.

The film also incorporates interviews with an occasionally testy Berry and his family members,
the late Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bruce Springsteen, Little Richard, the Everly Brothers
and Bo Diddley.

Also featured is footage of a performance by Berry and his backup band of the 1950s at the
long-gone Cosmopolitan Club in East St. Louis, Ill. The film was directed by Taylor Hackford,
who most recently produced and directed the Oscar- winning biopic "Ray."

The four-disc set will contain more than seven hours of new material. Highlights, according
to Hackford, include "intimate jam sessions" with Clapton, Cray, James, Richards, Berry and
Berry's late keyboardist sidekick Johnnie Johnson, extended interviews with some of rock's
founding fathers and a conversation between Berry and the Band's Robbie Robertson in which
Berry talks about his prison experiences for the first time.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

8Source: Maarten Van Der Tol

Bo Diddley in Dutch commercial
Tuesday, 24. January 2006 - 18:30

The Bo Diddley commercial will be shown until 29 january.

Source: John Joosse

Bo Diddley in Dutch commercial
Thursday, 19. January 2006 - 10:37

Since yesterday we have a commercial on the dutch tv which has an appearance of Bo Diddley.
It's a short, but wonderful bluesy song.

The commercial is on tv until 22 january.

http://www.agens.nl (English translation available)

Source: John Joosse

Chuck Berry in Silver Springs, FL
Thursday, 19. January 2006 - 10:37

CHUCK BERRY
18.03.06 - SILVER SPRINGS, FL - TWIN MANSIONS THEATRE