Chuck Berry lies in his coffin with a Gibson ES-355 during his memorial service at the Pageant Theater in St. Louis, April 9, 2017. The guitar legend died on March 18 at the age of 90.

What Chuck Berry’s and Glen Campbell ... by a band featuring his son Charles Berry Jr. on guitar and his ... “Lady B. Goode,” a kind of sequel to his signature hit sung from the ...

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 ...

The guitar was issued in 1958, the same year “Johnny B. Goode” and “Sweet Little Sixteen” were released and that’s when Berry began to play this instrument. It became his signature model ...

Chuck Berry's son talks about his ... (on rhythm guitar), and his daughter Ingrid Berry-Clay ... while the rip-roaring “Lady B. Goode” plays like a sequel to his signature 1958 hit ...

Berry’s signature guitar was the Gibson ES-355, which came out in 1958, the same year as Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen.” He came into the store one day and asked to meet with Crimmins to ...

But Berry’s items almost didn’t make the trip to D.C. According to The Washington Post, Smithsonian project historian Kevin Strait arrived at Berry’s residence, west of St. Louis, on November 9, 2011, ...

April 9 (UPI) --An open-casket funeral was held Sunday in St. Louis for music legend Chuck Berry, who died March 18 at the age of 90. Berry was seen wearing his signature captain's cap and a red ...

According to Chuck Berry’s son, Charles Berry, Jr., his father, toward the end of his life, had one goal in mind for his latest album: he just wanted to make sure that people had a chance to ...

The passing of rock ‘n’ roll legend Chuck Berry brought up a memory of a chance encounter I had with the man, a surreal moment where I almost had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming.

Chuck Berry was rock’n’roll’s founding guitar hero, a songwriter who helped define teenage rebellion and who had ­influenced virtually every rock guitarist since.