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We're counting down our favorites with this list of the Top 10 Chuck Berry Songs. While many of Berry's songs seem to sound the same -- a riff, three chords and tales about the nascent teenage ...
“Chuck had the swing,” Keith Richards told RS. “There’s rock, but it’s the roll that counts.” Here, in the wake of Berry’s passing, we survey a selection of the songs that helped ...
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 ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’ve ever cranked up a guitar-driven rock song and felt that electric jolt of rhythm pulse through your body—chances are, you’ve got Chuck Berry to thank. As a ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- No matter what kind of music you listen to, there's a good chance that one of your favorite songs was inspired, directly or indirectly, by Chuck Berry. Popular music today would ...
Chuck Berry’s “Chuck Berry ... This is one of Berry’s most ambitious songs, one that can be seen either as a wry, rollicking reflection on the impatience of youth or a celebration of ...
The Beach Boys' "Surfin' U.S.A." bears a striking resemblance to an earlier Berry song, "Sweet Little Sixteen." Berry ended up suing, and earned a shared songwriting credit. "I just took 'Sweet ...
In the later years of his career as a live performer, Chuck Berry famously ... paid a settlement. Yet Berry never quite went along with the notion that his party songs reflected his (or anyone ...
Here are Chuck Berry’s 10 best songs. 10. “Sweet Little Sixteen” (from 1958’s One Dozen Berrys) It’s hard to name many early rock ‘n’ rollers that didn’t steal from Berry ...