Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry is known the world over as the Father of Rock and Roll, and rightly so. It was he who married country music to the blues, wrote poetic lyrics that lit the imagination, sang them over motorvatin’ rhythms and played clarion riffs that established the guitar as rock and roll’s iconic instrument.

With indelible hits such as “Johnny B. Goode,” “Maybelline,” “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Sweet Little Sixteen,” and so many others, Berry’s music became the lingua franca of rock and roll. Somewhere in the world right now, it’s pouring out of a radio and someone is playing it onstage.