(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’ve ever cranked up a guitar-driven rock song and felt that electric jolt of rhythm pulse through your body—chances are, you’ve got Chuck Berry to thank. As a guitarist, ...

Chuck Berry, equipped with ubiquitous guitar licks, boundless charisma, self-confidence, and catchy songs, helped pioneer rock and roll. Though Elvis Presley became the King of Rock and Roll, Berry ...

With his debut single “Maybellene,” Chuck Berry, who died on Saturday at 90, arrived fully formed, artistically complete, revolutionary and prophetic. Though he came to be known as the poet laureate ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Behind so many great rock bands and rock songs looms the music of Chuck Berry. Like the time a teenage Keith Richards ran into a childhood friend, Mick Jagger, at a train station in ...

Chuck Berry: An American Life, by RJ Smith. Hachette. 432 pages. $32. By the time Chuck Berry had his breakout hit “Maybellene” in the summer of 1955, he was already nearly thirty years old, with ...

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Want to know how good and significant the St. Louis, Missouri-born rock and roll songwriter and performer Chuck Berry was? Well, according to legendary artist John Lennon, “If you had to give rock and ...