The Onion is on a roll recently with movie related news stories. First we had news that the Iron Man Movie Trailer was to be Adapted Into a Feature-Length Film, and now news that Chuck Berry Remembers the infamous call from his Cousin About a White Kid Playing Johnny B. Goode.
In a shocking revelation that turns a half century of rock-and-roll history on its head, legendary musician Chuck Berry recalled Monday how he got the idea for his iconic song “Johnny B. Goode”-believed for decades to have been written by Berry himself-after listening to a white teenager playing it over the telephone. “I’ll never forget that night back in 1955 when I got the call from [cousin] Marvin [Berry] saying, ‘Chuck, this is that sound you’ve been looking for!’” recounted Berry, explaining that his cousin was playing an “Enchantment Under The Sea”–themed high school dance when the mysterious teen, Calvin Klein, took to the stage and single-handedly invented rock and roll as we now know it. “Marvin held up the phone and I heard the song that would make me famous. Then I stole it.”
Read the full news report on The Onion.com.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
“It’s your cousin Mar-vin Berry?” Click.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Chucky B. Stoned if he really thinks Back to The Future really happened.
April 18th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Awesome - I also thought it was funny when I wrote it two weeks ago:
http://filmdrunk.com/post.phtml?pk=1442
April 18th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
lol
April 18th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
That line is actually my favorite part of Back to the Future!
April 19th, 2008 at 6:53 am
awesome.
I love those movies.
I should by a back to the future poster