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
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar...
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old,
Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.
Rock is my child and my grandfather.
It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.
Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.
Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news.
This will cost people their jobs and likely their health insurance.
A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.
Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.
Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.