Chuck Berry with wife Themetta in 2011 UPI After getting sprung, he got a cosmetology degree and worked as a beautician, and in 1948 married Themetta “Toddy” Suggs, with whom he had four kids ...

My dream was to meet Chuck Berry. It was April 1973, and he and Jerry Lee Lewis were playing at University of Maryland's Cole Field House. I was a 15-year-old student at Rockville's Wootton High ...

In trying to capture the momentous influence of Chuck Berry, who died March 18 at age 90, numerous obituaries and appreciations written in recent days have theorized that a number of rock ’n ...

But Chuck Berry was nowhere to be seen. The stage was empty. Only moments before, he’d been duck-walking and crashing through his old hits — or as many of them as could be played in precisely ...

Chuck Berry played his final concert on October 15th, 2014, three days shy of his 88th birthday, at St. Louis’ Blueberry Hill. But like many of his recent performances, it was rough. Berry had ...

Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll is Taylor Hackford’s 1987 documentary framed around an Oct. 16, 1986, concert at the Fox Theater in St. Louis to celebrate Berry’s 60th birthday ...

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 ...

Chuck Berry, with a trailer out Monday, is the first feature documentary to look at the life of the iconic musician, who died in 2017 at age 90. It includes new interviews with musicians such as ...

Chuck Berry, the legendary musician who helped define rock ’n’ roll, died on Saturday at the age of 90. Music historian Alan Light joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss Berry’s life and his ...

In Chuck Berry’s 1956 record “You Can’t Catch Me,” it’s a rainy late night on the New Jersey Turnpike. A hot rod roars by the driver-singer’s dream machine, and the race is on.