Chuck Berry's electric guitar, nicknamed "Maybellene," 1959 NMAAHC, donation of Charles E. Berry I had met him a few months earlier, backstage after one of his shows. We briefly discussed plans ...

Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll's founding guitar hero and storyteller who defined the music's joy and rebellion in such classics as Johnny B Goode, Sweet Little Sixteen and Roll Over Beethoven ...

Cancel anytime. St. Charles County Sheriff's Deputy Ross Bishop holds Chuck Berry's 1978 Gibson ES 355 guitar on Friday, Sept. 13, 2012. The guitar, valued at $50,000, was reported stolen Monday ...

In 1955, a sort of undefined, get-you-in-the-belly music was named rock 'n' roll, though as John Lennon once put it, "If you tried to give rock 'n' roll another name, you might have called it ...

He’s the reason your favorite rock star picked up a guitar in the first place. Personally, I’ve always seen Chuck Berry as more than a musical legend—he’s a storyteller with swagger ...

Only by blending this with R&B and blues and writing concise songs about average American teenage life to his utterly distinctive guitar ... of Chuck Berry, and bolster the book’s subtitle ...

It’s a classic Chuck Berry car song, propelled by a needling guitar riff and a street-wise vocal, ending with the driver parked and cuddling with his “honey.” In his memoir (published in ...

Here's our list of Chuck Berry's 20 best songs in chronological ... including the honking guitar cadenza at the start, the vamping vocal cadence in the verses, and a final wild solo every ax ...

Chuck Berry was playing a concert in Paris once when the audience started to get out of hand. But instead of engaging the rowdy fans, security did nothing. Things went from bad to worse, and tear ...

Chuck Berry's electric guitar, nicknamed "Maybellene," 1959 NMAAHC, donation of Charles E. Berry I had met him a few months earlier, backstage after one of his shows. We briefly discussed plans ...