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 1987 book Chuck Berry: The Autobiography revealed a man with no need of a ghostwriter, no self-serving whinges and a strong sense of black history. He continued to age remarkably well ...

And if people were surprised that Elvis Presley was actually White, others were equally shocked or bemused that Chuck Berry was Black ... out there in space, some alien life form could be grooving ...

His contributions to Black history and American music cannot be overstated. Here are ten essential Chuck Berry songs that everyone should listen to, not just for their musical brilliance but also ...

Chuck, you were amazing, and your music is engraved inside us forever.” Despite his profound musical influence, part of Berry’s legacy and his view of his place as a black man in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“[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 ...