>Got my eye on a little girl>Ah, she's really out of this world>Now I take her to a dance>We started talkin' about romance>Don't bother us, leave us aloneWhat did he mean by this?
>>130453158Time to fart
"Little girl" in the 50s didn't necessarily mean a literal child, it was a slightly condescending term of endearment for a woman.
>>130453216CHUCK NO
>Berry was jailed three times. In 1945, when he was 19, he and three friends stole a car in St. Louis at gunpoint and took it for a joyride. He was sentenced to three years in prison. In December 1959, Berry was accused of prostituting a 14 year old Hopi Indian girl who he had employed as a hat check girl at a club he owned in St. Louis. Berry was apparently unsatisfied with her job performance and fired her after two weeks. The girl was later arrested for prostitution in the parking lot of a Flagstaff, Arizona motel and accused Berry of prostituting her. There was no actual evidence of this, but it led to his conviction under the Mann Act and a three year prison sentence.>In 1979, Berry was convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to three years in prison. This concerned his habit of insisting on being paid cash for live performances and not reporting it as income; the IRS eventually found out what he was doing.
>>130453336>The girl was later arrested for prostitution in the parking lot of a Flagstaff, Arizona motel and accused Berry of prostituting her. There was no actual evidence of this, but it led to his conviction under the Mann Act and a three year prison sentence.This always puzzled me because LEA especially in the 50s normally wouldn't give a shit what a black guy and NA girl did, they weren't white and no white people were involved so who cares right?
>>130453349protip: it was politically motivated. it was less what Berry did per se than the fact that TPTB really didn't like rock and roll and wanted to cancel him for presumably corrupting America's young people.
>>130453272i'd believe that for other people
>>130453158All musicians in the 50s were pedophilesincluding the beatles and elvis later onwww.youtube.com/watch?v=qLG3l7NG1nU
>>130453336>This concerned his habit of insisting on being paid cash for live performances and not reporting it as incomebased
>>130453336>The girl was later arrested for prostitution in the parking lot of a Flagstaff, Arizona motel and accused Berry of prostituting her. I live in this city unironically.
>>130453336>This concerned his habit of insisting on being paid cash for live performances and not reporting it as income; the IRS eventually found out what he was doing.A lot of those guys were like that back then.Lightnin' Hopkins demanded he got paid in cash prior to a recording session and would only do one take of each song.
Ronald Isley also got busted for tax evasion, his excuse was that making a black guy pay taxes was racist. That didn't fly with a judge though.
>>130453336Carl Perkins said that Berry was never the same again after the sex trafficking bust, he was always wary and paranoid, didn't trust people anymore.
