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“Without Chuck Berry there wouldn't have been The Beatles or the Stones. But none of those guys attended his funeral, which I thought was very strange”: Gene Simmons recalls his eulogy for a rock ’n’ roll legend

Saturday August 30, 2025. 10:00 AM , from Keyboard Magazine
Plus: the shocking stories Simmons heard from his former partner Diana Ross
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