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In his 90 years, the legendary Chuck Berry recorded hundreds of songs, including 13 top 10 R&B hits and seven pop smashes. Born Charles Edward Anderson Berry in 1926, the future Father of Rock ...
What Chuck Berry’s and Glen Campbell’s final albums have to say about the end of the road By Mikael Wood Pop Music Critic Follow June 9, 2017 5:30 PM PT ...
The first-ever Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee crossed the mid-'50s racial divide armed with nothing more than his guitar, business savvy and well-crafted songs such as “Maybellene,” “Roll ...
Family, friends and fans paid their final respects to the rock `n' roll legend Chuck Berry on Sunday, celebrating the life and career of a man who inspired countless guitarists and bands.
Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll's founding guitar hero and storyteller who defined the music's joy and rebellion in such classics as "Johnny B. Goode," ''Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll Over Beethoven," ...
Chuck Berry was the first to celebrate rock & roll in rock & roll songs, which he did several times, including the classic “Johnny B. Goode,” about the rocker who had a knack, like Chuck, of ...
It would’ve been hard for Berry to defend his life and summarize his art on Chuck, which was both his final album and his first new collection of recordings since the 1979 record Rock It. So he ...
It’s classic Berry with a retro ‘50s sound but also the sheen of contemporary recording techniques. The result is modern nostalgia embracing the full power of rock ‘n’ roll.
"I am here because Chuck Berry meant a lot to anybody who grew up on rock n' roll," said Wendy Mason, who drove in from Kansas City, Kansas, for the visitation. "The music will live on forever." ...
ST. LOUIS — Chuck Berry fans are getting their chance to pay their respects to the rock 'n' roll visionary, roughly three weeks after his death at age 90 near his hometown of St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Fans lined up before dawn on Sunday to pay their final respects to music legend Chuck Berry, roughly three weeks after his death at age 90 near his hometown of St. Louis.