Morten Reff's Chuck Berry Records Book Due Soon

Usually I write only about Chuck Berry records and books I own or at least have physically seen. This is an exception, simply because I and many others are awaiting this book for many years. So finally we are to see at least Volume One of The Chuck Berry International Directory. This book will answer all the questions you continue to send me in email about this and this record you have, about this and this cover, about this and this label...
Here's an edited quote from George Groom-White's press release:

Music Mentor Books of York, England are to publish an extensive reference work about rock'n'roll's most influential guitarist and composer, Chuck Berry.
Compiled by world-renowned Norwegian Berry collector and expert, Morten Reff, THE CHUCK BERRY INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY will appear in four volumes. Each volume will be around 500 pages long and will retail for GBP 24.99 (approx US$ 50.00).
Volume 1 is scheduled for publication on 15 April 2008 and will contain discographies for over 40 countries, plus dozens of rare label and sleeve illustrations.
Volume 2 will be published later in 2008 and will contain details of bootlegs, radio albums, movies, TV shows, video and DVD releases, international tours, Berry's achievements and awards, his songs, roots and influence on other artists, tributes, Chuck Berry in print, fan clubs and websites, plus annotated discographies of keyboard wizard Johnnie Johnson and the ultimate Berry copyist, Eddy Clearwater.
Volumes 3 and 4 will be published in 2009 and consist of a massive listing of around 4,000 cover versions and some 800 soundalikes on record, in the movies and on TV that bear testimony to Berry's immense influence on Western popular music over the past half-century.
For more information, or to order online, visit the publisher's website: http://musicmentor0.tripod.com.

Given the task of collecting all this information about Chuck Berry record releases, books, DVDs, and cover versions, it is no wonder that Volume One has been promised for years. But now it's near and both Morten and George expect the April release date to be met. YES!
I would not bet anything on the dates George lists for the other volumes, but nevertheless: Write, Morten, write! We are waiting!

Late addition: To pre-order this book, Click Here!