Chuck Berry

Also known as Charles Edward Anderson Berry, Charles Edward Anderson Chuck Berry, Charles Edward Anderson, Charles Edward Berry

American musician (1926–2017)

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Chuck Berry was an American musician (1926–2017) who is widely recognized as a pioneering figure in rock and roll music. He matters because his innovative guitar playing, songwriting, and performances had a foundational influence on the development of popular music in the twentieth century.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1926
Works: 13

Top works

The Greatest hits
Best of Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry Songbook
Chuck Berry
Rockit

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Film & TV

Acting · St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Charles Edward Anderson Berry was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who pioneered rock and roll.

Known for

Merci Dorothée ! — Self (archive footage)2025
Hodgepodge — Self (archive footage)2025
The Beach Boys — Self (archive footage)2024
Daytime Revolution — Self (archive footage)2024
60 Songs: BBC Two at 60 — Self (archive footage)2024
Black Note — Self (archive footage)2023
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World — Self (archive footage)2023
Rock this Town — Self (archive footage)2022
Rat Pack — Self (archive footage)2022
Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres — Self (archival footage)2021

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1926
Active to: 2017

bluesblues rockclassic rockrhythm & bluesrhythm and bluesrock

Discography

Member of

Chuck Berry and His Combo

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 2,632,443
Total plays: 33,388,552

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

A Conceptual Model of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future Research
· 1985 · cited 35,554x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,425x
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,073x
Quantal phase factors accompanying adiabatic changes
· 1984 · cited 7,604x
The Behavioral Consequences of Service Quality
· 1996 · cited 7,423x

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Quotes

“Baby I'm gonna see that you be back home in thirty days Gonna put a false charge again ya That'll be the very thing that'll send ya I'm gonna see that you be back home in thirty=-= days”
“As I was motivatin' over the hill I saw Maybellene in a Coup de Ville A Cadillac arollin' on the open road Nothin' will outrun my V8 Ford The Cadillac doin' about ninety-five She's bumper to bumper, rollin' side by side Maybellene”
“You know, my temperature's risin' and the jukebox blows a fuse My heart's beatin' rhythm and my soul keeps on singin' the blues Roll Over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news”
“Workin' in the fillin' station - too many tasks. Wipe the windows - check the tires - check the oil - dollar gas! Too much monkey business. Too much monkey business. Don't want your botheration, get away, leave me! Too much monkey business for me!”
“I bought a brand-new air-mobile It custom-made, 'twas a Flight De Ville With a pow'ful motor and some hideaway wings Push in on the button and you can hear her sing Now you can't catch me, baby you can't catch me 'Cause if you get too close, you know I'm gone like a cool breeze”
“Hail, hail rock and roll; deliver me from the days of old. Long live rock and roll; the beat of the drums, loud and bold. Rock, rock, rock and roll; the feelin' is there, body and soul.”

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Official website

Chuck Berry

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Wikidata facts

Official website: app.soundcharts.com/app/artist/chuck-berry/overview
Image: Chuck-berry-2007-07-18.jpg
Number of children: 4

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Commons category: Chuck Berry
date of birth: 1926-10-18
date of death: 2017-03-18
start of work period: 1953-00-00
birth name: Charles Edward Anderson Berry
end of work period: 2017-00-00
social media followers: 14700
pseudonym: Chuck Berry

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Article

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter who was one of the pioneers of rock and roll. Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957), and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958). 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.

Born into a middle-class black family in St. Louis, 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. 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's rhythm and blues chart.