When Kiss star Gene Simmons went to the funeral of Chuck Berry, he hadn’t planned on making a speech – but that’s how it turned out. And as he now tells MusicRadar, he was disappointed that other ...

Chuck Berry, the legendary “Father of Rock ’N’ Roll,” died at his home in Missouri on Saturday, said police in St. Charles County, just north of St. Louis. He was 90 years old. The ...

Publicity photo for Chuck Berry, circa 1957. Public domain, via Wikipedia. Chuck Berry, the man whose name John Lennon once said was synonymous with rock and roll, has died at age 90, according to ...

Often hailed as the inventor of rock-and-roll, Chuck Berry almost never drank or took drugs. Johnny Cash, who crossed the line between country and pop, did both. These two powerful performers, one ...

Chuck Berry’s music will likely never pass away. And with Chuck Berry: An American Life, there’s finally a multi-faceted biography for an even more faceted man.

Chuck Berry Documentarian Taylor Hackford’s Tribute to a “Diabolical, Complicated, Talented” Star The music legend, who died Saturday at 90, is recalled by the director of 1987's 'Chuck ...

Legendary is an overused adjective in popular culture, but Berry’s passing is a salutary reminder of what a giant in the field actually looked like.

Revolutionary blues singer Chuck Berry died Saturday at age 90, police in St. Charles County, Missouri, said on Facebook.

Every songwriter borrows, and The Beatles admitted taking their share from greats like Chuck Berry. But it it cross the line into stealing?

Fifteen years ago I wrote an essay about Chuck Berry that in updated 1980 form remains a standard text of sorts, the Berry entry in ...

Chuck Berry, shown in St. Louis with a guitar-shaped cake for his 60th birthday in 1986, elevated the vocabulary of rock music from the outset in the 1950s.

That’s far from the only way that Berry and other Black artists of the time were exploited, but “Chuck Berry” mainly holds its nose and sidles past payola and other music-industry scandals.