FLINT, MI -- Johnnie Tyrell Johnson Jr.will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of gunning down a man in 2009 in front of a Flint nightclub in retaliation for a shooting ...

“It’s a sad day,” says Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, mourning his idol and good friend Johnnie Johnson. “I’ve been playing Chuck Berry records all day, listening to Johnnie.

Johnnie Johnson, one of Chuck Berry‘s longtime sidemen and the man who inspired Berry’s classic “Johnnie B. Goode,” filed suit against Berry in a St. Louis Federal District Court on Nov. 29.

Johnnie Johnson, the St. Louis pianist whose popular early-1950s trio was the launching pad for a young guitarist named Chuck Berry and who played a key role in the sound of Berry’s genre ...

January 18 -- It's Johnnie Johnson's year of vindication. After several years of campaigning, the St. Louis pianist — who came to fame as rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry's collaborator during ...

Considered by Rolling Stone to be "the greatest sideman in rock & roll," pianist Johnnie Johnson spent most of his career in the shadow of his musical partner, Chuck Berry. Johnson played on most of ...