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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 ...
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 ...
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," ...
A highly regarded musician since the ’50s, Berry is noted for being one of the forefathers of modern rock music, bending blues and country touchstones into songs that spoke to the tensions of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Singer-songwriter-guitarist Chuck Berry, the rock ‘n’ roll pioneer who established the form and the themes of the music with his slyly funny, rhythmically propulsive ’50s hits, such as ...
Until then, Berry doesn't mind playing the same old songs. Neither do his fans, who will pay more than $100 a ticket in Brazil to hear his hits "Memphis," "Maybellene," "Roll Over Beethoven" and ...
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. The Pageant, a club where ...