Berry, on the other hand, was committed to a different kind of chess: Chess Records, his label, where Berry continued releasing music through the rest of the decade. He released his penultimate album ...
Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry backstage at London's Wembley Stadium, September 1972. Credit: Photo from the Bill Greensmith Collection Chuck Berry was a complicated man. He craved love, attention, and ...
When Chuck Berry took the stage in Atlanta in 1973, he was already a rock ‘n’ roll legend, and his venue was the old Omni Coliseum, then less than a year old and in demand as a concert hall and as the ...
An American treasure, Chuck Berry was a pioneering artist. He redefined rhythm and blues to create his distinctive rock and roll sound that, to this day, inspires so much music. He has been cited as a ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Chuck Berry and Norm N. Nite, the disc jockey and music historian, were friends for more than 50 years. They stayed at each other's homes, in Berry Park near St. Louis and in ...
Western cultural history can be divided into two eras: b.c.b. and a.c.b. For those of us raised in the a.c.b. era (after Chuck Berry), the old world can never come into focus. It appears as through a ...
Over those years he came to the Quad-Cities multiple times, playing with local musicians on each visit, just as he did on many of his tour stops. From what we've found in the archives, his likely ...