TAYLOR HACKFORD
Taylor Hackford (born December 31, 1944) is an American film director, and the former president of the Directors Guild of America. He has directed a number of feature films, notably An Officer and a Gentleman and Ray. He won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Teenage Father. (More from Wikipedia)
A 1987 Taylor Hackford documentary, Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll was made to honor Chuck Berry on his 60th birthday. In this film, Eric Clapton says: “If you wanna play rock and roll – or any upbeat number – and you wanted to take a guitar ride, you would end up playing like Chuck [Berry] . . . because there is very little other choice. There’s not a lot of other ways to play rock and roll other than the way Chuck plays it; he’s really laid the law down.”
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