That was Chuck Berry’s ideal: He wanted both sides of the ropes, wanted to achieve a freedom that had not come easily to others. He tried this in his music, and in both his public and private life – that is, he attempted to navigate the dividing lines, even the ones inside himself...
A pioneer of rock and roll, Berry was a significant influence on the development of both the music and the attitude associated with the rock music lifestyle. With songs such as “Maybellene” (1955), “Roll Over Beethoven” (1956), “Rock and Roll Music” (1957) and “Johnny B. Goode...
In “Chuck Berry: An American Life,” author RJ Smith puts Berry’s many talents as a musician, composer, and businessman on display as Berry goes through life as a Black man in a Jim Crow world. Yet despite his fame and fluctuating fortune, Berry was often his own worst enemy ...
Chuck Berry, known as the "father of rock and roll," has been a major influence on popular music. Though his career and life reached great peaks and declined to low valleys, he has survived while his contemporaries (others from the same time period) have vanished. ...
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The Chuck Berry documentary ‘The Original King of Rock ’n’ Roll’ was streamed online and announced for home video release in November 2020.
“If you had to give rock and roll another name,” John Lennon once said, “you might call it ‘Chuck Berry.’” The man known as the father of rock and roll turns 85 today and he’s still going strong. To celebrate, we bring you this powerful 1958 per...
Chuck Berry didn’t do a ton of straight blues songs, but when he did–as here with his version of Guitar Slim’s “The Things I Used to Do”–the results could be pretty great. The studio version of this song appeared on his 1964 LPSt. Louis to Liverpool(my personal pick for best...
who was in prison at the time for a murder for which he was later exonerated. But the rest of 'Desire' (one of Dylan's most alive-sounding albums) is just as exciting and passionate about its subjects, whether culled from the history books ("Joey") or his personal life ("Sara"). ...
Chuck BerryBook excerpt: "Chuck Berry: An American Life" A big, new biography of the father of rock 'n' roll explores what author R.J. Smith calls "the often triumphant, sometimes anguished details" of Berry's career and personal life. Nov 13, 2022 Immortality in space for "Johnny...