More It's a well-known fact that Chuck Berry was buried with a Gibson ES-355 semihollow electric guitar to keep him company in the afterlife. But the story of how the guitar came to join Chuck in ...

Chuck also features guest appearances by Tom Morello, Nathaniel Rateliff, and Gary Clark Jr., who once opened for Berry in 2006 and impressed the headliner with his own singer-guitarist mojo.

Chuck Berry with wife Themetta in 2011 UPI After getting sprung, he got a cosmetology degree and worked as a beautician, and in 1948 married Themetta “Toddy” Suggs, with whom he had four kids.

Chuck Berry's music has transcended generations. He earns respect to this day because he is truly an entertainer. Berry, also known as "The Father of Rock & Roll", gained success by watching the ...

And so Chuck Berry, the creator, sounds ‘quaint’ and ‘old-fashioned.’… [Those records] are important pieces of art, and art isn’t looked at as something old or new, it’s looked at as ...

Chuck Berry, shown in St. Louis with a guitar-shaped cake for his 60th birthday in 1986, elevated the vocabulary of rock music from the outset in the 1950s.

In retrospect, it’s probably best for all of us that only one Chuck Berry succeeded. The Chuck Berry who failed, Charles Clifford Shepard Berry, was born in 1935 in Lawrence, Kansas.

After his mid-1950s revolution Chuck Berry spent more than 60 years—a near-lifetime on its own terms—living in a world that he himself had made. This was an astounding achievement, and often a ...

Chuck Berry: Every kid doesn't have any allowance, to try to keep carburetors, or try to put dual carburetors on for a little speed, and this is a big thing, so I wrote about it, but, it was a way ...

Chuck Berry's electric guitar, nicknamed "Maybellene," 1959 NMAAHC, donation of Charles E. Berry I had met him a few months earlier, backstage after one of his shows.

There’s another thing I hope to emulate. As told to Patrick Doyle Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley and Joe Walsh salute Chuck Berry at the 2017 ACM Awards with a performance of “Johnny B. Goode.” ...