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OBITUARY Chuck Berry Founding father of rock’n’roll who lit the flame of teenage rebellion in 1950s America and was himself never far from trouble Berry in 1971, the year before his visited the UK on a concert tour and caused outrage with his single My Ding-a-Ling One of the greatest testaments to Chuck Berry’s status as the progenitor of rock’n’roll occurred in the 1985 film  Back to the Future , in which Marty McFly, played by Michael J Fox, travels back in time and performs a futuristic vision of popular music at a 1955 high-school hop. Robert Zemeckis realised that if they wanted to represent convincingly the moment in which rock’n’roll guitar-playing was born, one song fitted the bill above all others — Berry’s signature tune  Johnny B Goode , performed by Fox complete with the guitarist’s trademark “duck walk”. John Lennon made a similar point more succinctly. “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.” Keith Richard...

All 62 Episodes Of 'Breaking Bad' Have Been Edited Into A 127-Minute Film Pretty much everyone agrees that Breaking Bad is one of the best TV shows ever made. But it's undeniable that beginning to watch it from scratch, or even to re-watch it, can seem a pretty daunting task. There are 62 hour long episodes in total, so it's a lot of time to set aside for the notoriously slow-paced show. 'If only there was another way to watch it, all in one go,' I hear you say. Well lucky for you there now is, as somebody has edited the series into a movie. Here's what the creator of the re-edit had to say about it: "After two years of sleepless nights of endless editing, we bring you the answer to that very question. "A study project that became an all-consuming passion. It's not a fan-film, hitting the highlights of show in a home-made homage, but rather a re-imagining of the underlying concept itself, lending itself to full fe...

Night-Time in America's Small Towns Photographer Daniel Freeman made the ultimate road trip across America to follow in the footsteps of photographers such as Stephen Shore, William Eggleston and Robert Frank. Image copyright DANIEL FREEMAN Starting in Boston, on the east coast, and ending on the west in Oakland, California, Freeman deliberately avoided the big cities, instead visiting the small towns of everyday America. In order to show the USA in an novel way, Freeman took his photographs at night, often using his car headlights to illuminate details in his nocturnal portraits. Image copyright DANIEL FREEMAN Image copyright DANIEL FREEMAN "Travelling the darkened, seemingly endless highways of America is vastly more rewarding than travelling in the UK, largely because one can travel great distances between towns," said Freeman.. "This allows clarity of the night sky with minimal interference from light pollution." Image copyr...

What next, Sir Philip?* (*yes he keeps the knighthood) The tycoon is ‘bored’ with questions about pensions, but £363m BHS deal won’t buy him peace , oh the poor fucker .. he still managed to get away with £208m the little shyster Emma Matthews was unswayed by the letter she received last week from BHS’s pension trustees. It said they were “very pleased” that Sir Philip Green, the collapsed chain’s former owner, had made “a voluntary personal cash payment”. Almost nine months after promising to “sort” the pension crisis, the swaggering tycoon had agreed to pump up to £363m into a rescue package. “It’s too little, too late,” insisted Matthews, 49, who spent 14 years as a BHS shop worker. She said she would always remember the tearful goodbyes as she and her colleagues left the Luton branch for the final time last summer. “He didn’t give two hoots about the staff. He never has done — it was all money, it was all what he could get out of the company.” Evidence unearthed...