Today I received a CD containing a previously unreleased Chuck Berry recording!
In 1999 Bob Costas of St. Louis local radio station KMOX 1120 presented a series of Evening Specials. One of these specials was dedicated to Rock&Roll and during this special Chuck Berry gave one of his rare interviews.
This interview has now been released on a CD called
KMOX Classics Volume 2 - Classical Conversations. Along with the Berry interview there are various other classical conversations as the KMOX staff talks to Bill Clinton, to Cassius Clay, and many more.
Chuck Berry talks about his dislikes of interviews (blaming Rolling Stone Magazine), about his life and early performances in St. Louis, about his influences (Old Blue Eyes), about him first hearing
Maybellene on the radio, and about writing
Roll Over Beethoven (his sister playing Bach, but that didn't rhyme).
This five minute interview is very well hidden on this CD which has no track listing, no year of release, not even a company label or copyright.