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THE FILMING OF CHUCK BERRY'S HAIL, HAIL, ROCK 'N' ROLL
Don�t worry if you missed Chuck Berry�s 60th birthday concert in St. Louis last fall. The film version—coming soon to a theater near you— will be a lot better.
Things went so badly during the first of two shows that Keith Richards had but one thought as he left the stage: "I wanted to kill him.�
Backstage after the show, Richards would opfy smile when asked who he meant but there was qifj| doubt he was referring to one of two people.
, One possibility was Berry," himself, The idea for the evening had been for the father of ropk �n� roll guitar to ' celebrate in his hometown"' with some of his best-known heirs. But despite the .. presence of Richards, Eric 1 Clapton, Julian Lennon, Lin■>da Ronstadt and Etta James, Berry�s performance in the first show had been flood of missed cues, sloppy solos and fumbled lyrics;
Keith�s other probable target: Taylor Hackford.