Today we both mourn and celebrate the life of Chuck Berry. We are all Chuck’s children.

We also talk about 1972, and the emergence of Alice Cooper, Jackson Browne and Neil Young. “Alice” would go on to have multiple lives, Jackson would take a while to come back to the top of the charts (even while writing for and influencing many artists), and Neil would never achieve the same commercial success, even as he “steered for the ditch” and became a legend while doing so.

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1969 was an eventful year in politics and music. Richard Nixon became US President, the Beatles played their last show, and the Rolling Stones lost the legendary Brian Jones, only to find a twenty year old phenom named Mick Taylor. From the Zip to Zap to Altamont, the year saw the birth of the Woodstock generation and the loss of its innocence.

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