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Charles Edward Anderson Berry was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter who was one of the pioneers of rock and roll. Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957), and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958). W…
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Born 18 October 1926 · Died 18 March 2017 · Q5921
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“Well, actually they begin to listen to it, you see, because certain stations played certain music. The music that we, the blacks, played, the cultures were so far apart, we would have to have a play station in order to play it. The cultures begin to come together, and you begin to see one another”
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“Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering”
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rolling stones data: The Rolling Stones and Carol: How They Turned Berry Into Fire
Singersroom.com: 10 Best Chuck Berry Songs of All Time
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Chess Records: From Muddy to “Maybellene” | Chicago Blues, Rock & Roll, Chuck Berry
JAM'N 95.7: Josh Christina & Charlie Berry III Team Up for Centennial ‘Rock Revival’ | JAM'N 95.7 | DJ Pup Dawg
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The Hype Magazine: Josh Christina and Charlie Berry III Ignite a New “Rock Revival” in Honor of Chuck Berry’s Centennial
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American Songwriter: 4 Chuck Berry Songs That Pioneered Rock and Roll
American Songwriter: 4 Classic Rock Songs Directly Inspired by Chuck Berry
Published video “Chicago Blues Festival - June 8, 2025”.
Published video “A Friendship for the Ages: Chuck Berry and Joe Edwards | #CHUCK100”.
Published video “A Very Berry Thanksgiving”.
Published video “Bring Chuck Berry’s Holiday Classics Home on Limited-Edition Vinyl! 🎄🎸”.
Published video “Jahi Eskridge Talks About His Grandfather, Chuck Berry.”.
Published video “Charlie Berry III Talks about his Grandfather, Chuck Berry.”.
Deadline.com: Revelations’ Morgan Freeman, Lori McCreary Tune Up Chuck Berry’s 98th Birthday With TV Series Deal
Snopes rated the claim “A meme shows the moment that John Lennon and Chuck Berry reacted to Yoko Ono "screeching into the microphone" during a 1972 appearance on "The Mike Douglas Show."” True.
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Rolling Stone ranked Berry at number 96 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time
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Wall Street Journal: ‘Chuck Berry’ Review: Rock’s Rebellious Auteur
Published video “John Lennon Introduces Chuck Berry on The Mike Douglas Show (shorts)”.
Published video “"You Can't Catch Me" by Chuck Berry Sampled by The Beatles in "Come Together" (Shorts)”.
Published video “"Roll Over Beethoven" - Chuck Berry with Jerry Lee Lewis and the Rock Hall Jam Band LIVE in 1986”.
Published video “"Johnny B. Goode" - Chuck Berry LIVE on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour”.
Ultimate Classic Rock: Chuck Berry, ‘Live From Blueberry Hill': Album Review
Rolling Stone: Chuck Berry’s ‘Live From Blueberry Hill’ Announced in Honor of 95th Birthday
Forbes: Chuck Berry Documentary Focuses On The Family Man And Husband Of Nearly 70 Years
Released album “Reelin' And Rockin' - 60 Essential Recordings”.
Published video “Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run (Official Video)”.
KPBS: Chuck Berry: Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
The International Astronomical Union named a small crater on Mercury after Berry
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The Guardian: Ronnie Wood review – Chuck Berry tribute show neither rocks nor rolls
Published video “Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run (Official Lyric Video)”.
Published video “ChuckBerryVEVO Live Stream”.
The Guardian: The week in radio: Reith Lectures; Ear Hustle; Chuck Berry: 40 Years On
Published video “Chuck Berry - Darlin'”.
Released album “Chuck”.
The Guardian: Chuck Berry: Chuck review – instantly recognisable rock'n'roll royalty
Published video “Chuck Berry - Lady B. Goode”.
Published video “Chuck Berry - Big Boys”.
Published video “Chuck Berry - Wonderful Woman”.
The Guardian: Letter: Chuck Berry obituary
The Guardian: Chuck Berry fans pay last respects to influential musician in his hometown
At The Pageant, in Berry's home town of St
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The Guardian: Singer, musician, sex offender: let’s remember the whole Chuck Berry
The Guardian: Listen to Chuck Berry's first posthumous single, Big Boys
The Guardian: Hail! Hail! Top 10 songs inspired by Chuck Berry
The Nation: Remembering Chuck Berry
Berry was found unresponsive at his home near Wentzville in St
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Died 2017-03-18.
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Released album “Live: The Palladium New York ‘88 + Bonus Track”.
Awarded Polar Music Prize (2014).
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Berry was honored in a dedication of an eight-foot, in-motion Chuck Berry Statue in the Delmar Loop in St
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Released album “Icon”.
Published video “Chuck Berry - Sweet Sixteen”.
Published video “Chuck Berry - Little Queenie”.
Berry toured Europe, with stops in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland, and Spain
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Was honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2000).
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Released album “In Concert”.
Released album “On the Blues Side”.
Released album “Chuck Berry Singles Collection, Volume 1”.
Released album “28 Great Rock & Roll Songs”.
Released album “Mr. Rock 'n' Roll”.
Released album “Gold”.
Released album “The Great Chuck Berry”.
Released album “The World of Chuck Berry: Let It Rock”.
Released album “Blues Berry”.
Released album “The World of Chuck Berry: Rock & Roll Music”.
Released album “The Giants of Rock & Roll, Volume 1”.
Released album “Rock 'n' Roll Music”.
Released album “20 Great Tracks”.
Released album “The World of Chuck Berry: Reelin’ and Rockin’”.
Released album “Chuck Berry”.
Released album “The Very Best of Chuck Berry”.
Released album “The Chess Years”.
Released album “Grandes Del Rock’n’Roll”.
Released album “The Ultimate Collection”.
Released album “Fruit of the vine”.
Released album “The Best... Chuck Berry”.
Was sued by several women who claimed that he had installed a video camera in the bathroom of his restaurant
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Released album “Heroes of Rock ’n’ Roll”.
Released album “Missing Berries: Rarities, Volume 3”.
Released album “Story 1955–1958”.
Released album “Johnny B. Goode”.
Released album “A Portrait of...”.
Released album “16 Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Rock ’n’ Roll «Black»”.
Released album “Roll Over Beethoven”.
Released album “The Best Off”.
Released album “Chess Masters”.
Released album “Super Hits”.
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll”.
Released album “The Chess Box”.
Released album “Decade '55 - '65”.
Released album “The Collection”.
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1987).
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Released album “The 21 Greatest Hits”.
Released album “The Best of the Best of Chuck Berry”.
Released album “His 30 Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Let It Rock”.
Released album “The Best Of”.
Berry was charged with assaulting a woman at New York's Gramercy Park Hotel
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986).
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Released album “The Collection: 20 Rock ’n’ Roll Greats”.
Taylor Hackford made a documentary film, Hail
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Released album “More Rock 'N' Roll Rarities From The Golden Era Of Chess Records”.
Released album “Two Dozen Berrys”.
Released album “Rock ’n Roll Rarities”.
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1984).
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Released album “Alive and Rockin’”.
Released album “The Best of Chuck Berry”.
Released album “Chuck Berry (La grande storia del rock)”.
Released album “The History of Rock, Volume Four”.
Released album “The Great Twenty‐Eight”.
Berry performed a television special at The Roxy in West Hollywood with Tina Turner as his special guest
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Released album “Rockit”.
Released album “America’s Hottest Wax: Rare and Unreleased Tracks 1955–1963”.
Entitled Chuck, would be released in 2017
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Which would be his last studio album for 38 years
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Berry pleaded guilty to evading nearly $110,000 in federal income tax owed on his 1973 joint earnings of $374,982
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Released album “Motorvatin'”.
Released album “Chuck Berry's Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Chuck Berry '75”.
Released album “Flashback”.
Released album “Golden Decade, Volume 3”.
Released album “All Time Greatest Rock & Roll Party Hits”.
Released album “Le Roi du rock”.
Released album “Bio”.
Chess released a live recording of "My Ding-a-Ling", a novelty song that he had recorded in a different version as "My Tambourine" on his 1968 LP From St
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Released album “St. Louis to Frisco to Memphis”.
Released album “Chuck Berry's Golden Decade: The Original Two Albums”.
Released album “Chuck Berry’s Golden Decade, Vol. 2”.
Released album “San Francisco Dues”.
Released album “Back Home”.
Released album “I'm a Rocker”.
Released album “Concerto in “B Goode””.
Released album “From St. Louie to Frisco”.
Released album “Chuck Berry in Memphis”.
Released album “Chuck Berry’s Golden Hits”.
Released album “Chuck Berry in London”.
Released album “Fresh Berry’s”.
Released album “The Latest and the Greatest”.
Released album “St. Louis to Liverpool”.
Released album “You Never Can Tell”.
And 1965 Berry released eight singles, including three that were commercially successful, reaching the top 20 of the Billboard 100: "No Particular Place to Go" (a humorous reworking of "School Days", concerning the intro
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Released album “Two Great Guitars”.
Released album “More Chuck Berry”.
Berry had several more successful songs, including "No Particular Place to Go", "You Never Can Tell", "Nadine" and the novelty song "My Ding-a-Ling"—his only number-one single
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His return to recording and performing was made easier because British invasion bands—notably the Beatles and the Rolling Stones—had sustained interest in his music by releasing cover versions of his songs, and other ban
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Released album “Rhythm & Blues Rendez-Vous”.
Released album “New Juke Box Hits”.
Released album “Rockin’ at the Hops”.
Released album “Chuck Berry Is on Top”.
Released album “One Dozen Berrys”.
Was captured in the motion picture Jazz on a Summer's Day
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“Sweet Little Rock and Roller”
Released album “After School Session”.
Berry recorded an adaptation of the song "Ida Red", under the title "Maybellene", with Johnnie Johnson on the piano, Jerome Green (from Bo Diddley's band) on the maracas, Ebby Hardy on the drums and Willie Dixon on the b
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“It came out at the right time when Afro-American music was spilling over into the mainstream pop.”
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Berry recorded the tracks "I Hope These Words Will Find You Well" and "Oh, Maria
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Berry married Themetta "Toddy" Suggs, who gave birth to Darlin Ingrid Berry on October 3, 1950
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“Ain't That Just Like a Woman”
When he was arrested for armed robbery after robbing three shops in Kansas City, Missouri, and then stealing a car at gunpoint with some friends
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While still a student at Sumner High School in St
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Born 1926-10-18.
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