{"id":96,"date":"2021-09-18T19:29:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o5go.com\/music\/?page_id=96"},"modified":"2021-09-18T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T19:29:18","slug":"chuck-berry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/o5go.com\/music\/chuck-berry\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Berry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chuck Berry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Chuck+Berry+playlist\">https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Chuck+Berry+playlist<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Edward Anderson Berry\u00a0(October 18, 1926 \u2013 March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, and one of the pioneers of\u00a0rock and roll\u00a0music. Nicknamed the &#8220;Father of Rock and Roll&#8221;, he refined and developed\u00a0rhythm and blues\u00a0into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as &#8220;Maybellene&#8221; (1955), &#8220;Roll Over Beethoven&#8221; (1956), &#8220;Rock and Roll Music&#8221; (1957) and &#8220;Johnny B. Goode&#8221; (1958).[1]\u00a0Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included\u00a0guitar solos\u00a0and\u00a0showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent\u00a0rock music.[2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born into a middle-class&nbsp;African-American&nbsp;family in&nbsp;St. Louis, Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at&nbsp;Sumner High School. While still a high school student he was convicted of&nbsp;armed robbery&nbsp;and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947. After his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant. By early 1953, influenced by the guitar&nbsp;riffs&nbsp;and showmanship techniques of the blues musician&nbsp;T-Bone Walker, Berry began performing with the&nbsp;Johnnie Johnson Trio.[3]&nbsp;His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955 and met&nbsp;Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact&nbsp;Leonard Chess, of&nbsp;Chess Records. With Chess, he recorded &#8220;Maybellene&#8221;\u2014Berry&#8217;s adaptation of the country song &#8220;Ida Red&#8221;\u2014which sold over a million copies, reaching number one on&nbsp;Billboard&nbsp;magazine&#8217;s rhythm and blues chart.[4]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the end of the 1950s Berry was an established star, with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St. Louis nightclub, Berry&#8217;s Club Bandstand.[5]&nbsp;He was sentenced to three years in prison in January 1962 for offenses under the&nbsp;Mann Act\u2014he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines.[3][6][7]&nbsp;After his release in 1963, Berry had several more successful songs, including &#8220;No Particular Place to Go&#8221;, &#8220;You Never Can Tell&#8221;, and &#8220;Nadine&#8221;. However, these did not achieve the same success or lasting impact of his 1950s songs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgic performer, playing his past material with local backup bands of variable quality.[3]&nbsp;In 1972 he reached a new level of achievement when a rendition of &#8220;My Ding-a-Ling&#8221; became his only record to top the charts. His insistence on being paid in cash led in 1979 to a four-month jail sentence and community service, for tax evasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the\u00a0Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\u00a0on its opening in 1986; he was cited for having &#8220;laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance.&#8221;[8]\u00a0Berry is included in several of\u00a0Rolling Stone\u00a0magazine&#8217;s &#8220;greatest of all time&#8221; lists; he was ranked fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the\u00a0100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[9]\u00a0The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&#8217;s\u00a0500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll\u00a0includes three of Berry&#8217;s: &#8220;Johnny B. Goode&#8221;, &#8220;Maybellene&#8221;, and &#8220;Rock and Roll Music&#8221;.[10]\u00a0Berry&#8217;s &#8220;Johnny B. 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