Chuck Berry performs at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minn., on July 1, 1984. Michael Ochs Archives. Berry was also publicly shamed when the High Society nudie magazine in ...

Chuck Berry, who turned 86 just three days ago, set the rock 'n' roll world on its proverbial ear with the 1955 release of his first single, "Maybellene," and hasn't looked back since. That is why ...

My dream was to meet Chuck Berry. It was April 1973, and he and Jerry Lee Lewis were playing at University of Maryland's Cole Field House. I was a 15-year-old student at Rockville's Wootton High ...

On July 10, 1979, rock pioneer Chuck Berry was sentenced to several months in jail for tax evasion of over $100,000.

It’s a stretch of the imagination to say Desert Trip wouldn’t exist without Chuck Berry.But not a big one. Berry, who turns 90 on Tuesday influenced all of the Desert Trip artists with '50s ...

Chuck Berry lies in his coffin with a Gibson ES-355 during his memorial service at the Pageant Theater in St. Louis, April 9, 2017. The guitar legend died on March 18 at the age of 90.

The last time a Berry album made it into the top 40 of the Billboard 200 was "The London Chuck Berry Sessions," which featured the chart-topping novelty tune "My Ding-a-Ling." ...

Rock and roll guitarist Chuck Berry performs his “duck walk” as he plays his electric hollowbody guitar at the TAMI Show on December 29, 1964 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa ...

Chuck Berry, the perpetual wild man of rock music who helped define its rebellious spirit in the 1950s and was the sly poet laureate of songs about girls, cars, school and even the “any old way ...

Chuck Berry plays an electric guitar with his band in 1956. Berry, regarded as one of the creators of rock 'n' roll, died on March 18, 2017. The singer, guitarist and songwriter was 90.