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. Even though his career and life reached great peaks and declined to low valleys, he still prevails in music...

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Charles Edward Anderson Berry, better known as Chuck Berry, epitomized 1950s rock 'n' roll through his songs, music, and dance. "If you tried to give rock 'n' roll another name, you...

Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an iconic and influential African-American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music....

NEW YORK - No," Taylor Hackford says with a dazzling California smile, "I'm not turning into a rock 'n' roll filmmaker." It was coincidence, the pony-tailed Hackford says, relaxing in jeans and a scarlet sweater in an East Side hotel suite, that he filmed...

"And that's the way we ended it in 1954," said Chuck Berry as he brought "Around and Around," one of his early hits, to a spluttering finish. The crowd at the 9:30 club on Friday night seemed almost stupefied by the date. Did he...

Former All-Star catcher Javy Lopez and the Colorado Rockies reached a preliminary agreement on a $750,000, one-year contract Tuesday.The deal is pending a physical, which is scheduled for later this week. Lopez's salary, which is not guaranteed, would increase to $1 million if he is...

Hank Williams Jr. and bluegrass duo Flatt & Scruggs will be among this year's five new inductees into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the hall announced Monday.The two acts, along with country tunesmiths Bob DiPiero and Mac McAnally and gospel singer Dottie Rambo, will...

Chuck Berry is the greatest of the rock and rollers…. But Chuck Berry isn't merely the greatest of the rock and rollers, or rather, there's nothing mere about it. Say rather that unless we can somehow recycle the concept of the great artist so that it supports Chuck Berry as well as it does Marcel Proust, we might as well trash it altogether. As with Charlie Chaplin or Walt Kelly or the Beatles, Chuck Berry's greatness doesn't depend entirely on the greatness of originalit...

Chuck Berry has been called "folk poet of the '50s," "the major figure of rock and roll" and "the single most important name in the history of rock." All of these epithets are well deserved, not only because of his own achievement but because of the influence he exerted on later super-rock artists like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and the Beach Boys (whose surfin' music was based on his "Sweet Little Sixteen"). (pp. 144-45) [He...

[If] there is any one performer who conceivably could be credited with having influenced every rock 'n' roll and rock musician to follow, it would be Berry. Equally important, he was the first major figure to write the kind of songs that reflected the romance between rock 'n' roll and youth culture. He was one of the first performers to realize that rock 'n' roll was more than just a music kids liked; that it had a social importance quite distinct from, and perhaps ...