Chuck Berry, the father of rock “n” roll, has died. Thanks to songs like “Johnny B. Goode”, “Roll Over Beethoven”, and “Sweet Little Sixteen”, Berry was an global superstar. He liked to play with other famous musicians at times, too, reported the New York Times, which recalled earlier today Mr. Berry’s 1995 performance with Bruce Springsteen and the E. Street Band at the Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. They were “One Dozen Berrys” and “Wild Berrys”.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger tweeted, “When I was 10 years old and I dreamed every night of moving to America, Chuck Berry played the soundtrack”. He merged the styles with an electric energy and consummate stage showmanship, although he hesitated to say that he created rock “n” roll.
Mr. Berry, born Charles Edward Anderson Berry, was born on October 18, 1926. He will be missed by everyone who loves Rock “n” Roll. And Chuck Berry was its chief designer, its master engineer and – argue all you want but the available evidence overwhelms – one of its inventors, if not THE inventor.
The Beatles covered “Roll Over Beethoven” on their second album.
Yet for all this humor, Chuck Berry never wrote novelty songs.
The girl in question was a 14-year-old prostitute from Texas who he claimed he had brought to Missouri to check hats at his St Louis nightclub. “Chuck you were amazing&your music is engraved inside us forever”. He made his mark with the group, changing its name to the Chuck Berry Combo and the musical style to a fast-paced mix of country, pop, and rhythm and blues.
Berry, who broke out in the 1950s, was instrumental in building rock out of the blues and swing of the “40s”. It was the way he sang them, enunciating as crisply as that mean schoolteacher might have while somehow communicating his essential rebelliousness. A 2008 Vanity Fair article referred to Berry as “rock “n” roll’s most influential forefather”. Just last year, he announced he would release his first album in 38 years according to The Guardian.
“This record is dedicated to my beloved Toddy”, Berry said in a statement, via ITV.
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Aside from Berry’s electric-guitar work – the distinctive, propulsive fuel of his records – there were the relatable lyrics: “He was reflecting the world around us back to us kids”, said Kramer, who remembers it as a Detroit era of “hamburgers, cars and coney islands”. Now I can hang up my shoes!’
