By “Bad” Brad Berkwitt

Yesterday, sad news hit the Virginia, Washington, DC and Maryland corridor better known as the DMV when the radio stations reported that the Godfather of Go – Go Chuck Brown, had passed away at the age of 75, from complications due to pneumonia. It didn’t take long for the local radio stations to play his music, take phone calls with fond memories of Chuck, and to let everyone know, that he may be gone in spirit, but his music will always live on…

My cell phone rang at about 3:30 PM when my buddy Rodney (He is in the lead in picture with Chuck on this article) called to inform me of the sad news. He had a premonition that Chuck was in bad shape because the tickets he had for a June concert up at Rams Head in Annapolis was cancelled. Sadly, that premonition rang true.