the idea of a black man playing electric lead guitar was literally remarkable—‘alien’—in a way that would have been inconceivable for Chuck Berry only a short while earlier.” The simples ...

His contributions to Black history and American music cannot be overstated. Here are ten essential Chuck Berry songs that ...

Chuck Berry, a music pioneer often called ... but he could also insert the scalpel when needed. After all, Berry – a black man who grew up in Jim Crow America, who was close to 30 when ...

“Of course they wanted to stop Chuck Berry,” Mr. Smith writes. “He was a prophet of Black mobility. He was himself in flight, taking Black music to white audiences across the country with a ...

The house lights went up at the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater in Peachtree City, Georgia, and 2,500 souls rose as one, held flaming candles aloft and commenced singing “Happy Birthday” to ...

they mistook it that Chuck was white. And we would walk out on the stage, there'd be a lot of ohs and aahs and whatever because he's a black man playing hillbilly music." Sometimes Berry didn't ...

In his 90 years, the legendary Chuck Berry recorded hundreds of ... by a brown-eyed handsome man — i.e., an attractive Black man like Berry who appealed to women of every race.

Chuck Berry will forever be synonymous with rock ... Later, in 1985, he replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath for one record, "Seventh Star." Spirit was another California rock band whose ...

Chuck Berry, a music pioneer often called ... but he could also insert the scalpel when needed. After all, Berry – a black man who grew up in Jim Crow America, who was close to 30 when ...

Inspired by the electrified Delta blues of Muddy Waters, the wild showmanship of T-Bone Walker and Guitar Slim, the smooth crooning of Nat “King” Cole, and the storytelling of Hank Williams, Chuck ...

“[Chess] couldn’t believe that a country tune (he called it a ‘hillbilly song’) could be written and sung by a black guy,” Berry later wrote in his 1987 memoir Chuck Berry: The ...