When Nikita Khrushchev made his
provocative pronouncement,
"We will bury you!"...
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| Soviet Premiere Nikita Khrushchev. |
President Eisenhower missed
a golden opportunity to offer this witty reply:
"WE WILL BERRY YOU!!"
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| Legendary photographer Gary Firstenberg strums Chuck Berry's guitar. |
I saw Chuck Berry once when I was in college.
He was traveling with a pack of 1950s rock 'n rollers, doing the
He was traveling with a pack of 1950s rock 'n rollers, doing the
rock 'n roll revival thing. This memory brought to mind a time
I was at the Indianapolis Airport waiting for an early flight.
About 30 WWF wrestlers straggled in and sat all around me.
The thought I had was that one wrestler couldn't fill a night club
but a whole squadron might fill a small stadium.
This is what the Rock N Roll Revival was about... packing small
stadiums like the Convocation Center in Athen. Even Chuck
Berry's patented duckwalk would get old after awhile if he tried
to carry the whole evening alone. So these veteran stars came
together to share the stage, increase their audience size and
get paid to do what they loved to do... Perform.
The Platters, Shirelles, Sha Na Na and a host of others...
Was Bo Diddley there? He might have been.
Was Bo Diddley there? He might have been.
Chuck Berry was fo' sure.
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If you like word games, you may have noticed that
Bury and Berry are homonyms. Here's a story I created
using as many homonyms as I could think of, & it was a lot.
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