Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berryis an American guitarist, singer and songwriter and is one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene", "Roll Over Beethoven", "Rock and Roll Music"and "Johnny B. Goode", Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and music featuring guitar solos and showmanship that were a major influence on subsequent rock music...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth18 October 1926
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.
The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.
All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.
All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.
Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old,
Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.
Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.
Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.
Don't bother me, leave me alone. Anyway, I'm almost grown.
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.