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R.I.P. Phil Chess

Just one day after Chuck Berry’s 90th birthday, the man that gave Berry his start for an incredible run of genre-birthing hits, Phil Chess, has died at 95. Chess and his brother Leonard changed the name of Aristocrat Records to Chess Records in 1950 after Leonard had been a partner there for two years. Phil […]

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19:01 on October 19 2016

R.I.P. Phil Chess

Stereogum — Just one day after Chuck Berry’s 90th birthday, the man that gave Berry his start for an incredible run of genre-birthing hits, Phil Chess, has died at 95. Chess and hi... more info
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