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| | Chuck Berry: Creator of Rock and Roll |
 | | Berry's career was on the fast track until 1962, when he was imprisoned for violating the Mann Act for driving an underage white girl across state lines. | | | Chuck Berry drew on all of these influences to create his special brand of the hard-driving, youth-focused music called rock 'n' roll. | | | But Berry, a born showman, was also a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and comedian, and he was soon fronting a trio with the great boogie-woogie pianist Johnnie Johnson and the wonderful drummer Ebby Hardy playing behind him. |
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http://www.aarpmagazine.org/lifestyle/Articles/a2003-04-30-mag-chuckberry.html
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| | The Official Site of Chuck Berry - Biography |
| | Berry is a musical icon who established rock and roll as a musical form and brought the worlds of black and white together in song. | | | For his first stage performance, Berry chose to sing a Jay McShann song called "Confessin' the Blues." It was at his high school's student musical performance, when the blues was well-liked but not considered appropriate for such an event. | | | For this reason, tunes like "Johnny B. Goode," "Maybellene" and "Memphis" have become anthems to an integrated American youth and popular culture. |
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http://www.chuckberry.com/about/biography.html
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| | Chuck Berry |
| | Chuck Berry's contributions to the music, in his essential '50s and '60s recordings for Chicago's Chess label, were so huge, and so hugely influential, that the very identity of "rock and roll" as we know it seems unthinkable without him. | | | The archetypal rock and roller, Chuck Berry melded blues, country, and a witty, defiant teen outlook into songs that influenced vitually every rock musician in his wake. | | | What I have time to do here today is point to some of the essential Chuck Berry music you ought to be listening to, or re-listening to, to find some of these things out for yourself while having an absolutely wonderful time. |
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http://www.vk.kiev.ua/rock/rockabilly/berry/berry.html
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| | Chuck Berry |
| | Berry is widely regarded as one of the leading pioneers of rock music, having blended the blues with country music and added a rhythm-and-blues beat, and he is thought by many to be the inventor of the rock music form. | | | Berry, Chuck (Charles Edward Anderson Berry), 1926&;, American rock music guitarist, singer, and songwriter, b. | | | Berry was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0807262.html
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| | Chuck Berry |
| | Berry hastly worked up four songs for an audition tape. | | | A smutty ditty recorded live and purportedly without Berry's knowledge at a 1972 UK concert, it achieved what none of his previous recordings had: a million sales and Number 1 status in the UK charts. | | | Meanwhile in the UK the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, among many others, used Berry's songs as a starting point for their own careers. |
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http://www.euronet.nl/users/wvbrecht/berry.htm
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| | Chuck Berry's 75th birthday |
| | Johnson composed the music on piano, and Berry converted it to guitar and wrote the lyrics. | | | Berry took the stage and had some trouble with the sound, and the band was a bit ragged, but the energy |
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http://www.chuckberry.de/birthday.htm
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| | Blogcritics.org: All Hail Chuck |
| | Berry recorded "Maybellene" for the Chicago-based Chess Records, he was inspired, he said, by a country-western song, "Ida Red." Leonard Chess, one of the owners, told him he didn't like the title. | | | Berry "created the most literate, stylistically innovative and original music of the era." If the formulaic lyrics of early rockers were narrowly focused on boy meets girl, Mr. | | | Berry worked up a repertory of boogies and blues but also played around with the lyrics of old country songs. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/02/23/141405.php
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Best of Chuck Berry: Music |
| | Berry is a classic musician, and I still have all his music on old 45s and LPs. | | | My only critism is that so many of Berry's tracks sound identical, especially the intros, nevertheless the humour and guitar pro-ess will get you listening to this album again and again. | | | Classic Chess-period back-catalogue, mostly singles, but a few album tracks where these have become well-known through other versions, from his first single, Maybelline, to an extended live version of Reelin' And Rockin' in 1972, showing his sly, witty lyrics which flow with the beat so skillfully and rhythmically, and his exemplary guitar playing and singing. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000024OX2
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| | Chuck Berry MP3 Downloads - Chuck Berry Music Downloads - Chuck Berry Music Videos |
| | Part of the secret to its originality was Berry's blazing 24-bar guitar solo in the middle of it, the imaginative rhyme schemes in the lyrics, and the sheer thump of the record, all signaling that rock & roll had arrived and it was no fad. | | | Like Brian Wilson said, he wrote "all of the great songs and came up with all the rock'n'roll beats." Those who do not claim him as a seminal influence or profess a liking for his music and showmanship show their ignorance of rock's development as well as his place as the music's first great creator. | | | Second, and perhaps most important, America had discovered the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, both of whom based their music on Berry's style, with the Stones' early albums looking like a Berry song list. |
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http://www.mp3.com/chuck-berry/artists/3078/biography.html
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| | Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Chuck Berry |
| | Berry was bilked out of two-thirds of his royalties from the song, but in later years he would reflect upon the lesson he learned: "Let me say that any man who can't take care of his own money deserves what he gets," he told Rolling Stone. | | | Chuck Berry (born 1926), creator of the "duck walk" and known as the "father of rock and roll," has been a major influence on popular music. | | | Berry's method since the late 1950s has been to use pickup bands comprised of musicians from the city he's playing in. |
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http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/berry_c.htm
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| | Chuck Berry |
| | In 1972, Chuck recorded a partially live album called "The London Chuck Berry Sessions." The live portion of the album was recorded at the Lanchester Arts Festival in Coventry, England, with the Average White Band backing up Chuck for the show. | | | Chuck's topical lyrics, combined with his legendary guitar riffs, set the model for the rock and roll style of the 60s. | | | Chuck exploded on to the scene in the summer of 1955 with his debut single, a song called "Maybellene" (originally called Ida Red) that shot right to the top of the R and B charts, staying at # 1 for ELEVEN weeks in the summer and fall of that year. |
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http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_artists-bio/chuckberry.html
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| | Chuck Berry |
| | Oddly, Berry brings in a corny vocal group to back him on several tracks ("Away From You"), as if he thought he was Ray Charles - when he starts playing his usual acerbic solo, it's quite a contrast, and not a pleasing one. | | | Berry also unveils his first attempt at Caribbean music, "Havana Moon." There are also some instrumentals which are just excuses for Berry's enjoyable soloing (the fast "Roly Poly," the slow slide feature "Deep Feeling"), but not a single misfire. | | | Many of Berry's best songs were only released on greatest hits collections: the one to get is The Great Twenty-Eight, which has all the most important songs in chronological order, and lists personnel. |
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http://www.warr.org/berry.html
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| | Classic Soul - Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry, |
| | I think the reason Chuck isn't worshipped as a God by post-'50s fans is because he never developed his music beyond his early style, a style which is no longer explicitly influential in contemporary pop music. | | | It is also reported that Chuck Berry is planning to stage a tribute concert to his former piano player and collaborator at the Edward Jones Dome in downtown St. Louis at a date to be confirmed. | | | Right, Chuck was a huge influence on the 2nd wave of rock bands like the Stones--and even on certain punk groups like the Clash. |
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http://www.soul-patrol.com/soul/chuck.htm
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| | World Book Chuck Berry |
| | Chuck Berry (1926-...) is an American singer, composer, and guitarist. | | | His song "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) is a tribute to that musical form, and he expressed its value to youth in "Sweet Little Sixteen" (1958). | | | Many critics believe that Berry's lyrics about the social significance of rock music have made him an important folk poet. |
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http://www2.worldbook.com/features/aamusic/html/berry.htm
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| | Amazon.com: His Best, Vol. 1: Music: Chuck Berry |
| | CHuck Berry with His Signature Style of Guitar PlayingandDuck Walk is One Of The FOunding Ground-Breaking Musicians of Rock-N-Roll.His Music Here Represents His GreatNessandImportance to the World of Music.Maybellene,Johnny B.Goode,Roll Over Beethoven etc.. | | | With his signature guitar licks, the bluesy pop oh his music, and the deceptive simplicity of his lyrics, Uncle Chuck crafted some of the purest r-n-r around, song upon song of exhilarating, electrifying sound that defined the style. | | | With all due respect to Elvis, Richard, Buddy, and Carl, Chuck Berry was the true king of rock and roll. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005KQI?v=glance
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| | Amazon.com: 3-CD Chess Boxed Set: Music: Chuck Berry |
| | Chuck Berry wrote the book on rock 'n' roll guitar and was a major influence on British teenagers Keith Richards and George Harrison and countless other guitarslingers since. | | | Chucky Berry is a an amazing rock and roll artist and this 3 cd box set is a must have for people that love this kind of music. | | | Chuck Berry has released some fine albums throughout his career (Chuck Berry Is on Top, St. Louis to Liverpool), and until it went out of print the budget-minded could have gotten by with The Great Twenty-Eight. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002Q3Z?v=glance
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| | Amazon.com: Chuck Berry (Guitar Recorded Versions): Books: Chuck Berry |
| | Chuck Berry's music is an indispensable gateway to opening up the fret board and will really help you understand the dynamics of Rock & Roll music. | | | Fifty years ago, Charles Berry gave Leonard Chess a demo tape of a song he had recorded at home called Ida May. He had the idea that if he took a blues tune and put a speeded up 'hill-billy' (as C&W was then known) beat behind it, it would gain a wider appeal. | | | I am using this book with both 'Chuck Berry: The Great Twenty-Eight' and a CD looping program called 'Transkriber 2.0', which allows me to slow down the original recordings and repeat selected passages as necessary. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0793502632?v=glance
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| | The Chuck Berry Page |
| | Lyrics to practically every song Chuck has ever written can now be found at the Chuck Berry, Rock 'n' Roll Poet site; it takes a while to download, but most of the lyrics have been transcribed correctly. | | | Three pictures of Chuck from the 1995 New Orleans Jazz Festival | | | However, there is a version of the guitar parts for Johnny B. Goode here, though I have no idea how accurate it is. Until I find somthing better, I hope this will suffice. |
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http://departments.colgate.edu/diw/pegg/chuck.html
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| | Collins' Oldies Website: Chuck Berry |
| | But it's all right, since Chuck wrote both songs; some subsequent tunes also sound similar to earlier ones. | | | Listen closely, and you'll hear Chuck's voice echo. | | | I Want To Be Your Driver (2:13) - All previous songs had been recorded in Chicago; this one was recorded in London. |
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http://www.srv.net/~roxtar/berry_chuck.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Chuck Berry (Guitar Recorded Versions): Books |
| | It starts with a guide to understanding the various symbols used in the tablature and then goes on to discuss, in detail, how it is applied to analysing Chuck Berry's music. | | | Chuck Berry: Guitar with Notes and Tablature, November 18, 2002 | | | Buy Chuck Berry (Guitar Recorded Versions) with Picture Chord Encyclopedia: Photos and Diagrams fo... |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0793502632
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| | CHUCK BERRY Lyrics |
| | Preview: Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music, any old way you choose it; it's got a back beat, you can't lose it, any old time you use it. | | | rock and roll music lyric 247 words / 35 lines Rock And Roll Music Lyric by Chuck Berry | | | memphis lyric 188 words / 23 lines Memphis Lyric by Chuck Berry |
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| | Chuck Berry - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | Chuck Berry - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links | | | Browse artists: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # |
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http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,403695,00.html
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| | A Collector's Guide to the Music of Chuck Berry |
| | A Collector's Guide to the Music of Chuck Berry | | | I'd like to express my thanks to every Chuck Berry fanatic worldwide who contributed to this site in one way or another. | | | No part of this document may be used or published without written consent by the author. |
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http://www.crlf.de/ChuckBerry
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| | Chuck Berry |
| | Selective Listing: Chuck Berry has 1 collection in print. |
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| | Chuck Berry MIDI Files |
| | Get every Chuck Berry thing you want, at Amazon.com! |
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