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When it came to sex and drugs, rock ‘n’ roll legend Chuck Berry rang all the bells — and then some. Berry, who died of natural causes on Saturday at age 90, is widely credited with helping ...
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.
"I said, 'Well, maybe a little bit of Lincoln and make it a festival that appeals to the 30-plus crowd,'" recalled Puglia, ...
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 ...
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 ...
It's a well-known fact that Chuck Berry was buried with a Gibson ES-355 semihollow electric guitar to keep him company in the afterlife. But the story of how the guitar came to join Chuck in his ...
It’s a stretch of the imagination to say Desert Trip wouldn’t exist without Chuck Berry. But not a big one.
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.
In the early 1970s, more than a decade after rock pioneer Chuck Berry’s first round of fame and fortune was over, he was booked for an East Coast appearance, where he hired an aspiring group of ...
Music legend Chuck Berry also made headlines for negative reasons. Learn more about the scandal that rocked his life in the '90s.