Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berryis an American guitarist, singer and songwriter and is one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene", "Roll Over Beethoven", "Rock and Roll Music"and "Johnny B. Goode", Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and music featuring guitar solos and showmanship that were a major influence on subsequent rock music...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth18 October 1926
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.
Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.
Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar...
If your playing basic music, its just rock.
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"
All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.
I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
Maybellene, why can't you be true?