![]() That made your bottom, your groin shake and move in ways that white music didn’t. The white guys were okay and they appealed to the chicks and everything. And then after that, Jackie Wilson and, you know, all those guys. The original guys I heard that impacted my life basically was Black music. Bone or any of those guys until much later on. All those African-Americans that made all of it work. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino. But the first music I heard was, I guess, the founding fathers of rock. I happen to be there and the family asked me to do the eulogy for Chuck Berry, which, obviously, is a great honor. Ironically, I did the eulogy at Chuck’s funeral. ![]() And the first music I heard was Chuck Berry. Maybe it was 1858-see what I did there? That was a joke. Gene Simmons: I was probably nine years of age. American Songwriter: When did music first enter your life as a young person? ![]()
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