Paul McCartney stole the bassline of The Beatles‘ “I Saw Her Standing There” from Chuck Berry. He said “I Saw Her Standing There” proved basslines didn’t have to be original. Subsequently, Paul ...

Chuck Berry duck-walked onto the rock and roll centrestage back in the 1950s, but even he could not rival the divine right of 'The King', ...

Chuck Berry is often viewed more as a guitarist than a songwriter, but he certainly knew his way around the written word, and ...

Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” is one of the most important classic rock songs. Mike Love said the track inspired one of The Beach Boys’ songs. In addition, Love revealed why he decided the Beach ...

The Gazette newsroom and editorial staff were not involved in the creation of this content. Alright, ‘Johnny B. Goode’ is pretty great. There’s a reason it’s been played over 500 million times on ...

Birthed alongside the late-’70s L.A. punk scene, X was beyond the genre, matching Chuck Berry riffs and power chords to beatnik poetry and atonal harmonies. Purchasing their first four albums (Los ...

In Chuck Berry’s 1956 record “You Can’t Catch Me,” it’s a rainy late night on the New Jersey Turnpike. A hot rod roars by the driver-singer’s dream machine, and the race is on. Just as he surges ahead ...

Chuck Berry, a music pioneer often called "the Father of Rock 'n' Roll," was found dead Saturday at a residence outside St. Louis, police in St. Charles County said. He was 90. A post on the St.