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Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive. Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.[1]
Born into a middle-class African-American family in St. Louis, Missouri, Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School. While still a high school student he was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947. After his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant. By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of the blues musician T-Bone Walker, Berry began performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio.[2] His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess, of Chess Records. With Chess, he recorded "Maybellene"—Berry's adaptation of the country song "Ida Red"—which sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues chart.[3] By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star, with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand.[4] However, he was sentenced to three years in prison in January 1962 for offenses under the Mann Act—he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines.[2][5][6] After his release in 1963, Berry had several more hits, including "No Particular Place to Go", "You Never Can Tell", and "Nadine". But these did not achieve the same success, or lasting impact, of his 1950s songs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgic performer, playing his past hits with local backup bands of variable quality.[2] However, in 1972 he reached a new level of achievement when a rendition of "My Ding-a-Ling" became his only record to top the charts. His insistence on being paid in cash led in 1979 to a four-month jail sentence and community service, for tax evasion. His reputation took a nosedive in the early 1990s, when the FBI seized home videos of him urinating in women's eyes, farting in their mouths, and having them defecate into his mouth and played them in court.[7]
Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986; he was cited for having "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance."[8] Berry is included in several of Rolling Stone magazine's "greatest of all time" lists; he was ranked fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[9] The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll includes three of Berry's: "Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", and "Rock and Roll Music".[10] Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" is the only rock-and-roll song included on the Voyager Golden Record.[11] He was nicknamed by NBC as the "Father of Rock and Roll".[12]
Born into a middle-class African-American family in St. Louis, Missouri, Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School. While still a high school student he was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947. After his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant. By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of the blues musician T-Bone Walker, Berry began performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio.[2] His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess, of Chess Records. With Chess, he recorded "Maybellene"—Berry's adaptation of the country song "Ida Red"—which sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues chart.[3] By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star, with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand.[4] However, he was sentenced to three years in prison in January 1962 for offenses under the Mann Act—he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines.[2][5][6] After his release in 1963, Berry had several more hits, including "No Particular Place to Go", "You Never Can Tell", and "Nadine". But these did not achieve the same success, or lasting impact, of his 1950s songs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgic performer, playing his past hits with local backup bands of variable quality.[2] However, in 1972 he reached a new level of achievement when a rendition of "My Ding-a-Ling" became his only record to top the charts. His insistence on being paid in cash led in 1979 to a four-month jail sentence and community service, for tax evasion. His reputation took a nosedive in the early 1990s, when the FBI seized home videos of him urinating in women's eyes, farting in their mouths, and having them defecate into his mouth and played them in court.[7]
Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986; he was cited for having "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance."[8] Berry is included in several of Rolling Stone magazine's "greatest of all time" lists; he was ranked fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[9] The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll includes three of Berry's: "Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", and "Rock and Roll Music".[10] Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" is the only rock-and-roll song included on the Voyager Golden Record.[11] He was nicknamed by NBC as the "Father of Rock and Roll".[12]
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Filmed at Toronto's Rock & Roll Revival in 1969, titles include Johnny B. Goode, Maybelline, Sweet Little Sixteen, Hoochie Koochie Man, Rock & Roll Music and...
Thank you my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that October 18 is the anniversary of the birth of American singer, songwriter, and performer Charles Edward Anderson Berry best known as Chuck Berry who was one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.
Rest in peace Chuck Berry.
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1. Chuck Berry in typical form :-)
Rest in peace Charles Edward Anderson Berry.
The Legendary CHUCK BERRY
"Filmed at Toronto's Rock & Roll Revival in 1969, titles include Johnny B. Goode, Maybelline, Sweet Little Sixteen, Hoochie Koochie Man, Rock & Roll Music and Carol."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8DwSdMVU0E
Background from imdb.com/name/nm0001946/bio
"Overview, trivia and quotes below
Born October 18, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Died March 18, 2017 in Wentzville, St. Charles County, Missouri, USA (natural causes)
Birth Name Charles Edward Anderson Berry
Nicknames The Prime Minister of Rock 'n' Roll; The King of Rock 'n' Roll; The Father of Rock 'n' Roll
Height 6' 0½" (1.84 m)
Background from blackpast.org/aah/berry-charles-edward-anderson-chuck-1926
Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Charles Edward Anderson “Chuck” Berry was considered a pioneer of rock and roll and a major influence on 20th century popular music. His songs such as “Johnny B. Goode” and “Roll Over Beethoven” are rock and roll standards.
Chuck Berry was born in St. Louis, Missouri on October 18, 1926, to a middle class family which included six siblings. His father, Henry, worked in a flour mill, and his mother, Martha, was a college graduate. His mother played piano, and both she and his father were church singers, instilling in their son an early interest in music.
Despite his middle class family background, as a teenager, Berry and two high school friends were arrested for committing a short string of armed robberies in Kansas City, Missouri. Berry was convicted and served three years in prison between 1944 and 1947.
Shortly after he was released, Berry married Themetta Suggs, and the couple had two children. Berry settled into family life while working at an automobile assembly plant in St. Louis and taking jobs as a carpenter with his father. In his free time, Berry finally pursued an early fascination with guitar, taking lessons from Ira Harris, a local jazz guitarist.
By 1952, Berry was playing professional engagements in St. Louis clubs and eventually joined the St. John’s Trio, led by pianist Johnnie Johnson and including drummer Eddy Hardy. Berry incorporated elements of country into the trio’s sound, but he also brought in blues songs, turning the trio into a prototype rock and roll band.
In 1955, Berry traveled to Chicago, Illinois where he had a chance meeting with Muddy Waters and asked for advice about recording. Waters sent him to see Leonard Chess at Chess Records who listened to Berry’s home recording of “Ida Mae,” a popular country tune. Chess immediately offered a recording session. On May 21, 1955, Chuck Berry recorded “Ida Mae” with reworked lyrics and a new title, “Maybelline.” Berry’s first record, “Maybelline,” reached #1 on the Billboard R&B chart and sold over one million copies. By the late 1950s, Berry was an established star with several hit records, film appearances, and a profitable touring schedule. In 1962, however, his career was derailed when Berry was convicted of violating the Mann Act for allegedly transporting an underage girl across state lines for immoral purposes, a charge that Berry still disputes.
After his release in 1963, Berry had a string of hits, though none reached the popularity of his earlier recordings. By the 1970s he was primarily in demand for rock and roll revival shows where he played his past hits. In 1972 his live recording of the novelty pop song “My Ding-A-Ling” became his only #1 single on the U.S. pop charts. He continued touring, but his insistence on being paid in cash led to a third jail sentence of four months for tax evasion in 1979.
In 1986, Berry became one of the first musicians to be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also listed as 5th in Rolling Stone magazine’s 2004 list of The Greatest Artists of All Time and 7th on the list of Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists. Another unique honor: "Johnny B. Goode" was included with the golden records launched with NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 space probes.
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry died at the age of 90 on March 18, 2017, in St. Charles, Missouri.
Trade Mark (5)
Duckwalk
Gibson guitars
Gibson ES-335
The "Johnny B. Goode" riff
Dynamic blues based guitar riffs
Trivia (22)
1. Father of Ingrid Berry.
2. Received the John F. Kennedy Center Honors (2000).
3. Received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1984).
4. He originally wanted to be a professional photographer and started singing and playing in a band to buy cameras and photography equipment. Some of his photographs of the famous and near-famous are hanging in galleries around the world today.
5. He worked as a janitor, carpenter and hairdresser.
6. He was arguably the most important figure in rock-n-roll in the 1950s, besides Elvis Presley. Although Presley had much more explosive record sales and greater commercial longevity, Berry was equally influential and had the satisfaction of knowing that he, unlike Presley, had written all of his own classics.
7. He was voted the fifth Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artist of all time by Rolling Stone.
8. His only #1 single was his controversial novelty song "My Ding a Ling".
9. One of his daughters, Aloha Berry, went to the same high school (University City Senior High School) as actor Edgar L. Davis and rapper Nelly.
10. Whenever he performed live, he always selected a venue which was near an Indian restaurant, so he could have a meal straight after the show. When he was at the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall in the 1990s, the stage door was directly opposite the front door of the Mogul-E-Azam, so he was able to sneak out the stage door, across the alley and have his meal without traveling too far (one of the roadies on duty that night let slip about the restaurant information).
11. Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1982), the Blues Hall of Fame (1985), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (charter member) (1986), and the American Songwriters Hall of Fame (1986).
12. On June 1, 1979, President Jimmy Carter asked him to perform at the White House.
13. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1777 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California on October 7, 1987.
14. He was awarded a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame in St. Louis, Missouri on June 25, 1989.
15. In Stephen King's novel "Christine", many chapters open with lyric fragments from his songs.
16. Until his passing, he performed on a Wednesday each month at Blueberry Hill, a restaurant in the Delmar Loop neighborhood in St. Louis.
17. Born to a contractor and deacon of a Baptist church and his wife, a qualified principal, he was the third of six children.
18. He made his national television debut on November 8, 1957 on American Bandstand(1952) performing "Rock and Roll Music" twice in a row, by demand of the teenage dancers in the studio.
19. Served three jail terms: for armed robbery in 1944, for violation of the Mann Act in 1959, and for income-tax evasion in 1979. He served two years in the state penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, and was released in February 1964.
20. He owned a warehouse full of old Cadillacs, one from every three or four model-years, all the way back to the mid-1950s, which he claimed to be trying to get rid of; but said that nobody would give him a fair price, so he just stored them away.
21. Mentioned in "Chuck Berry Fields Forever" by Gilberto Gil, "Chuck Berry" by The Toasters, "I Hear You Knocking" by Dave Edmunds, and "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" by Bob Seger.
22. On March 18, 2017, police in St. Charles County, Missouri were called to Berry's house, where he was found unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at the scene at age 90.
Personal Quotes (5)
1. People don't want to see seventeen pieces in neckties. They wanna see some jeans, some gettin' down and some wigglin'.
2. I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time and that's why I do not like him.
3. It amazes me when I hear people say "I want to go out and find out who I am." I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.
4. [on his song "School Days"] I wanted to write about school because most of my audience at the particular time was a school element.
5. I would sing the blues if I had the blues."
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1. Chuck Berry in typical form :-)
Rest in peace Charles Edward Anderson Berry.
The Legendary CHUCK BERRY
"Filmed at Toronto's Rock & Roll Revival in 1969, titles include Johnny B. Goode, Maybelline, Sweet Little Sixteen, Hoochie Koochie Man, Rock & Roll Music and Carol."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8DwSdMVU0E
Background from imdb.com/name/nm0001946/bio
"Overview, trivia and quotes below
Born October 18, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Died March 18, 2017 in Wentzville, St. Charles County, Missouri, USA (natural causes)
Birth Name Charles Edward Anderson Berry
Nicknames The Prime Minister of Rock 'n' Roll; The King of Rock 'n' Roll; The Father of Rock 'n' Roll
Height 6' 0½" (1.84 m)
Background from blackpast.org/aah/berry-charles-edward-anderson-chuck-1926
Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Charles Edward Anderson “Chuck” Berry was considered a pioneer of rock and roll and a major influence on 20th century popular music. His songs such as “Johnny B. Goode” and “Roll Over Beethoven” are rock and roll standards.
Chuck Berry was born in St. Louis, Missouri on October 18, 1926, to a middle class family which included six siblings. His father, Henry, worked in a flour mill, and his mother, Martha, was a college graduate. His mother played piano, and both she and his father were church singers, instilling in their son an early interest in music.
Despite his middle class family background, as a teenager, Berry and two high school friends were arrested for committing a short string of armed robberies in Kansas City, Missouri. Berry was convicted and served three years in prison between 1944 and 1947.
Shortly after he was released, Berry married Themetta Suggs, and the couple had two children. Berry settled into family life while working at an automobile assembly plant in St. Louis and taking jobs as a carpenter with his father. In his free time, Berry finally pursued an early fascination with guitar, taking lessons from Ira Harris, a local jazz guitarist.
By 1952, Berry was playing professional engagements in St. Louis clubs and eventually joined the St. John’s Trio, led by pianist Johnnie Johnson and including drummer Eddy Hardy. Berry incorporated elements of country into the trio’s sound, but he also brought in blues songs, turning the trio into a prototype rock and roll band.
In 1955, Berry traveled to Chicago, Illinois where he had a chance meeting with Muddy Waters and asked for advice about recording. Waters sent him to see Leonard Chess at Chess Records who listened to Berry’s home recording of “Ida Mae,” a popular country tune. Chess immediately offered a recording session. On May 21, 1955, Chuck Berry recorded “Ida Mae” with reworked lyrics and a new title, “Maybelline.” Berry’s first record, “Maybelline,” reached #1 on the Billboard R&B chart and sold over one million copies. By the late 1950s, Berry was an established star with several hit records, film appearances, and a profitable touring schedule. In 1962, however, his career was derailed when Berry was convicted of violating the Mann Act for allegedly transporting an underage girl across state lines for immoral purposes, a charge that Berry still disputes.
After his release in 1963, Berry had a string of hits, though none reached the popularity of his earlier recordings. By the 1970s he was primarily in demand for rock and roll revival shows where he played his past hits. In 1972 his live recording of the novelty pop song “My Ding-A-Ling” became his only #1 single on the U.S. pop charts. He continued touring, but his insistence on being paid in cash led to a third jail sentence of four months for tax evasion in 1979.
In 1986, Berry became one of the first musicians to be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also listed as 5th in Rolling Stone magazine’s 2004 list of The Greatest Artists of All Time and 7th on the list of Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists. Another unique honor: "Johnny B. Goode" was included with the golden records launched with NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 space probes.
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry died at the age of 90 on March 18, 2017, in St. Charles, Missouri.
Trade Mark (5)
Duckwalk
Gibson guitars
Gibson ES-335
The "Johnny B. Goode" riff
Dynamic blues based guitar riffs
Trivia (22)
1. Father of Ingrid Berry.
2. Received the John F. Kennedy Center Honors (2000).
3. Received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1984).
4. He originally wanted to be a professional photographer and started singing and playing in a band to buy cameras and photography equipment. Some of his photographs of the famous and near-famous are hanging in galleries around the world today.
5. He worked as a janitor, carpenter and hairdresser.
6. He was arguably the most important figure in rock-n-roll in the 1950s, besides Elvis Presley. Although Presley had much more explosive record sales and greater commercial longevity, Berry was equally influential and had the satisfaction of knowing that he, unlike Presley, had written all of his own classics.
7. He was voted the fifth Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artist of all time by Rolling Stone.
8. His only #1 single was his controversial novelty song "My Ding a Ling".
9. One of his daughters, Aloha Berry, went to the same high school (University City Senior High School) as actor Edgar L. Davis and rapper Nelly.
10. Whenever he performed live, he always selected a venue which was near an Indian restaurant, so he could have a meal straight after the show. When he was at the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall in the 1990s, the stage door was directly opposite the front door of the Mogul-E-Azam, so he was able to sneak out the stage door, across the alley and have his meal without traveling too far (one of the roadies on duty that night let slip about the restaurant information).
11. Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1982), the Blues Hall of Fame (1985), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (charter member) (1986), and the American Songwriters Hall of Fame (1986).
12. On June 1, 1979, President Jimmy Carter asked him to perform at the White House.
13. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1777 North Vine Street in Hollywood, California on October 7, 1987.
14. He was awarded a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame in St. Louis, Missouri on June 25, 1989.
15. In Stephen King's novel "Christine", many chapters open with lyric fragments from his songs.
16. Until his passing, he performed on a Wednesday each month at Blueberry Hill, a restaurant in the Delmar Loop neighborhood in St. Louis.
17. Born to a contractor and deacon of a Baptist church and his wife, a qualified principal, he was the third of six children.
18. He made his national television debut on November 8, 1957 on American Bandstand(1952) performing "Rock and Roll Music" twice in a row, by demand of the teenage dancers in the studio.
19. Served three jail terms: for armed robbery in 1944, for violation of the Mann Act in 1959, and for income-tax evasion in 1979. He served two years in the state penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, and was released in February 1964.
20. He owned a warehouse full of old Cadillacs, one from every three or four model-years, all the way back to the mid-1950s, which he claimed to be trying to get rid of; but said that nobody would give him a fair price, so he just stored them away.
21. Mentioned in "Chuck Berry Fields Forever" by Gilberto Gil, "Chuck Berry" by The Toasters, "I Hear You Knocking" by Dave Edmunds, and "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" by Bob Seger.
22. On March 18, 2017, police in St. Charles County, Missouri were called to Berry's house, where he was found unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at the scene at age 90.
Personal Quotes (5)
1. People don't want to see seventeen pieces in neckties. They wanna see some jeans, some gettin' down and some wigglin'.
2. I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time and that's why I do not like him.
3. It amazes me when I hear people say "I want to go out and find out who I am." I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.
4. [on his song "School Days"] I wanted to write about school because most of my audience at the particular time was a school element.
5. I would sing the blues if I had the blues."
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