Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry draws on dozens of interviews conducted by the author himself and voluminous public records to paint a complete picture of this complicated figure. This biography uncovers the real Berry and provides us with a stirring, unvarnished portrait of both the man and the artist.

Berry has long been one of pop music's most enigmatic personalities. Berry's career rise was meteoric; but his fall came equally quickly, when his relations with an underage girl led to his conviction. It was not his first (nor his last) run-in with the law.

He scored his biggest hit in the early '70s with the comical (and some would say decidedly lightweight) song 'My Ding-a-Ling'. The following decades brought hundreds of nights of tours, with little attention from the recording industry.

Bruce Pegg offers the definitive, though not always pretty, portrait of one of the greatest stars of rock and roll, a story that will appeal to all fans of American popular music.