Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll. With songs like "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), and "My Ding-A-Ling" (1972 ). Chuck Berry developed a smooth rhythm and blues and the main elements that make the typical rock and roll, with lyrics focusing on the lives of teenagers and consumer and enjoy the guitar solo and performance that would influence Most of rock music later.
Born into a middle class family in St. Louis, Missouri, Berry has an interest in music at an early age and gave the first public performance at Sumner High School. While still a schoolboy, he was serving a prison sentence for armed robbery between 1944 and 1947. Upon his release, Berry moved into married life and working on an automobile assembly plant. In early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and techniques of staging bluesman T-Bone Walker, he performed in the night with the Johnnie Johnson Trio. His break came when he went to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters who suggested he contact Leonard Chess Chess Records. With Chess, he recorded "Maybellene" s Berry-adaptation "of the country song" Ida Red ", which sold over a million copies, reaching # 1 on Billboard Rhythm and Blues charts. In late 1950, Berry was the star drawn with several hit songs and film appearances to his name, and visit profitable career. He also founded his own club based in St. Louis, called Berry's Club Bandstand. But in January 1962 Berry was sentenced to three years in prison for violations of the Mann Act, it has a 14 year old girl crossing international borders.
After his release in 1963 Berry had more hits, including "No Place To Go particular," "You Never Know" and "Nadine", but this is not the same success, or a lasting effect, between 1950 his song, and in the 1970s, it was more in demand as players live the nostalgia, playing its past successes with local backups of varying quality. Her insistence paid in cash led to a prison in 1979-four months and community service to avoid tax.
Berry is one of the first musicians inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when it opened in 1986 with the observation that "it laid the groundwork not only the sound of rock and roll, but rock and roll attitude. "Berry included in Rolling Stone a few" Greatest of all time "list, including being ranked sixth in 2004, their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500 songs that have formed Rock and Roll, including three songs by Chuck Berry "Johnny B. Goode, "" Maybellene "and" Rock and Roll Music "