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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 is on Top is not only Berry’s single best album, it was also one of the key components to the blueprints for the coming British Invasion in the early ’60s that would take his ...
Chuck Berry passed away today, 3/18/17, at age 90. R.I.P. This feature originally ran in 2016. Chuck Berry sons them all. Elvis, the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles — if they picked ...
Not a bad legacy. After Chuck passed in 2017, the Stones’ Mick Jagger said, “I am so sad to hear of Chuck Berry’s passing. I want to thank him for all the inspirational music he gave to us ...
What are his best tracks? "There's only one true king of rock 'n' roll," said Stevie Wonder. "His name is Chuck Berry." The St Louis bluesman, who has died aged 90, basically invented rock. Sure ...
His best songs from the 1950s and 1960s were three-minute bursts of energy, filled with humor, clever phrases and details a novelist would have been proud to render — "I've never seen a coffee ...
Linda Ronstadt had a much different musical palette than most artists, but she knew when some tunes needed some time to grow ...
Charles Edward Anderson Berry the Afrofuturist alighted on Earth in the year 1926 amongst a cohort of musical mavericks including Miles Davis, Big Mama Thornton, John Coltrane and Oscar Brown Jr ...
Chuck is the granddaddy of us all. Even if you’re a rock guitarist who wouldn’t name him as your main influence, your main influence is probably still influenced by Chuck Berry. He is rock ...