Chuck Berry

Sin duda Chuck Berry fue un icono en el rock n roll y blues de los 50`s. Aca les dejo un poco de su biografía y demas.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, [3] Berry was the third child in a family of six. He grew up in the north St. Louis neighborhood known as "The Ville", an area where many middle class St. Louis blacks lived at the time. His father was a contractor and a deacon of a nearby Baptist church, his mother a qualified principal. His middle class upbringing allowed him to pursue his interest in music from an early age and he made his first public performance while still in high school.

In 1944, before he could graduate, he was arrested and convicted of armed robbery after taking a joy ride with his friends to Kansas City, Missouri. In his 1987 autobiography, Chuck Berry: The Autobiography, he retells the story that his car broke down on the side of a highway and, not having a way home, flagged down a passing car. Berry attempted to commandeer the man's car at gunpoint with a non functional pistol. The carjacked man called the police from a nearby pay phone who quickly pulled over Berry in the car and arrested him and his friends.^{[citation needed]} Berry was released from the Intermediate Reformatory for Young Men at Algoa, near Jefferson, Missouri on his 21st birthday in 1947.

Many of his songs are among the leading rock and roll anthems:

• "Johnny B. Goode" - the autobiographical saga of a country boy ("colored boy" in the original lyrics) who could "play a guitar just like ringing a bell". It was chosen as one of the greatest achievements of humanity for the Voyager I collection of artifacts. The song was also featured in the feature film Back to the Future. The band The Grateful Dead recorded this song in the 1970s. Judas Priest did so as well in the 80's. (Johnny Winter's version boasts "he could play a guitar like a bat out of Hell".)
• "Rock and Roll Music" - recorded by The Beatles on their 1964 album Beatles for Sale and by the Beach Boys on their 1976 album 15 Big Ones.
• "Sweet Little Sixteen" - with new lyrics, became a hit for The Beach Boys as "Surfin' USA"
• "Roll Over Beethoven" - and "tell Tchaikovsky the news" a battle yell for rock and roll. In 1973, new owners of New York City classical music station WNCN announced a change of format to rock and roll by interrupting a performance of the Mozart Requiem with "Roll Over Beethoven". The station's classical audience was so outraged they successfully petitioned the FCC to force a return to the previous format. [7]. The song is referred to in AC/DC's "Let There Be Rock"; the Beatles recorded it on their 1963 album With the Beatles with George Harrison singing the lead; Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra made an 8-minute version of this song for their 1973 album's ELO 2. The Sonics also covered the song on their album Here Are the Sonics.
• "School Days" - its chorus, "Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll", was chosen as the title of the documentary concert film organized by Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones as his tribute to Chuck, who appears in the film with many others. It was also recorded by "hard" rock & roll band AC/DC on their second album, T.N.T. (Australia). Also, on an album my Matt Groenings "The Simpsons" called "The Simpsons Sing the Blues", a cover is made of this song as Bart Sing/Rapping.
• "Let It Rock" - fantasia of gambling railroad workers that lives up to the title, written under the pseudonym E. Anderson. It is a rare performer who can turn a line like "There's an off-schedule train comin’ two miles out" into a Dionysian cry. It was famously covered by the Rolling Stones during their 1971 UK Tour.
• "Around and Around" - describes how "the joint was rockin', goin' 'round and 'round." This song has been recorded by David Bowie, The Animals, The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, and Maureen Tucker of The Velvet Underground.
• "Little Queenie" - covered by many artists, notably the Rolling Stones on the live album Get Yer Ya-Yas Out and in 2007 as a duet with Jerry Lee Lewis and Kid Rock on the Lewis DVD Last Man Standing Live. T. Rex borrows the line, "Meanwhile I'm still thinkin", at the conclusion of "Bang A Gong". David Bowie paraphrases the song in his tune The Jean Genie - Go, Go, Go, Little Genie.