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. We briefly discussed plans ...

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 ...

Cancel anytime. St. Charles County Sheriff's Deputy Ross Bishop holds Chuck Berry's 1978 Gibson ES 355 guitar on Friday, Sept. 13, 2012. The guitar, valued at $50,000, was reported stolen Monday ...

and ringing guitar. “The beautiful thing about Chuck Berry’s playing was it had such an effortless swing,” Keith Richards wrote in his memoir, Life. “None of this sweating and grinding ...

In 1955, a sort of undefined, get-you-in-the-belly music was named rock 'n' roll, though as John Lennon once put it, "If you tried to give rock 'n' roll another name, you might have called it ...

He’s the reason your favorite rock star picked up a guitar in the first place. Personally, I’ve always seen Chuck Berry as more than a musical legend—he’s a storyteller with swagger ...

It’s a classic Chuck Berry car song, propelled by a needling guitar riff and a street-wise vocal, ending with the driver parked and cuddling with his “honey.” In his memoir (published in ...

Here's our list of Chuck Berry's 20 best songs in chronological ... including the honking guitar cadenza at the start, the vamping vocal cadence in the verses, and a final wild solo every ax ...

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. We briefly discussed plans ...