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83-564: The Georgia Satellites resurfaced in 1993 and have since continued to perform live. Their latest studio album to date is 1996's Shaken Not Stirred , which includes re-recordings of the band's older material, in addition to eight new songs. They have experienced numerous lineup changes in their career, with lead guitarist and vocalist Rick Richards being the only constant member. Their current lineup includes Richards, drummer Todd Johnston, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Fred McNeal, and bassist Bruce Smith. In 1980, Dan Baird (former guitarist for

166-526: A 911 operator can be heard responding to a reported cardiac arrest at Berry's home. Berry's funeral was held on April 9, 2017, at The Pageant , in Berry's home town of St. Louis. He was remembered with a public viewing by family, friends, and fans in The Pageant. He was viewed with his cherry-red Gibson ES-335 guitar bolted to the inside lid of the coffin and with flower arrangements that included one sent by

249-572: A cover of the Ringo Starr -written Beatles song " Don't Pass Me By ," though the album was not as successful as the band's debut. The lead single, "Open All Night" (backed with "Dunk 'n' Dine"), failed to chart. A third studio album, In the Land of Salvation and Sin , was released in 1989, which included re-recordings of "Six Years Gone" and "Crazy" from the 1985 EP. Although it received positive reviews, it also failed to do well commercially, and Baird left

332-613: A factory worker at two automobile assembly plants and as a janitor in the apartment building where he and his wife lived. Afterwards, he trained as a beautician at the Poro College of Cosmetology, founded by Annie Turnbo Malone . He was doing well enough by 1950 to buy a "small three room brick cottage with a bath" on Whittier Street, which is now listed as the Chuck Berry House on the National Register of Historic Places . By

415-520: A focus on the guitar riff as the primary melodic element and an emphasis on songwriting as storytelling. His records are a rich storehouse of the essential lyrical, showmanship and musical components of rock and roll. In addition to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones , a large number of significant popular-music performers have recorded Berry's songs. Although not technically accomplished, his guitar style

498-489: A follow-up single in the same year, was his last Top 40 hit in both the US and the UK. Both singles were included on the part-live, part-studio album The London Chuck Berry Sessions (other albums of London sessions were recorded by Chess's mainstay artists Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf ). Berry's second tenure with Chess ended with the 1975 album Chuck Berry , after which he did not make

581-746: A home at "Berry Park", near Wentzville, Missouri where he lived part-time since the 1950s and was the home in which he died. This home, with the guitar-shaped swimming pool, is seen in scenes near the end of the film Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll . He regularly performed one Wednesday each month at Blueberry Hill , a restaurant and bar located in the Delmar Loop neighborhood of St. Louis , from 1996 to 2014. Berry announced on his 90th birthday that his first new studio album since Rockit in 1979, entitled Chuck , would be released in 2017. His first new record in 38 years, it includes his children, Charles Berry Jr. and Ingrid, on guitar and harmonica, with songs "covering

664-437: A hotel gym locker room late one night. This provided Baird with an opportunity to make amends for his ineptness during a noisy backstage meeting the night before. The two discussed guitars and amplifiers, and Young complimented Baird on his music. On November 2, 2019, Baird announced on his website that he is retiring from touring. "I won’t quit making music, but it’ll be in my basement, at my home, where I can walk my dog, go to

747-451: A live album recorded in 1988 in Cleveland , on March 11, 2022. Current members Former members Dan Baird Daniel John Baird (born December 12, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer. He is best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist from the 1980s rock band The Georgia Satellites . Baird formed The Georgia Satellites in 1980 and left

830-484: A long-time collaboration with the pianist. The band played blues and ballads as well as country . Berry wrote, "Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering 'who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?' After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff and enjoyed dancing to it." In 1954, Berry recorded

913-528: A lot of twelve-year-olds new insight into the moribund concept of "dirty" when it hit the airwaves ... Robert Christgau Berry returned to Chess from 1970 to 1973. There were no hit singles from the 1970 album Back Home , but in 1972, Chess released a live recording of " My Ding-a-Ling ", a novelty song that he had recorded in a different version as "My Tambourine" on his 1968 LP From St. Louie to Frisco . The track became his only number-one single. A live recording of " Reelin' and Rockin' ", issued as

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996-488: A mass toast at 10 pm in Berry's honor. One of Berry's attorneys estimated that his estate was worth $ 50 million, including $ 17 million in music rights. Berry's music publishing accounted for $ 13 million of the estate's value. The Berry estate owned roughly half of his songwriting credits (mostly from his later career), while BMG Rights Management controlled the other half; most of Berry's recordings are currently owned by Universal Music Group . In September 2017, Dualtone,

1079-745: A member of Homemade Sin, which also includes bassist Keith Christopher, formerly of Keith and the Satellites. In addition, Baird performs as a member of the country groups Trent Summar & The New Row Mob and The Yayhoos . Along with his commitment to the Georgia Satellites, Richards also plays in former Guns N' Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin 's band. They toured in the early 1990s and have recorded 11 albums. Richards, along with ex-Satellites manager Kevin Jennings, released an album entitled For Ol' Times Sake in 2013 as The Western Sizzlers , which enlisted

1162-519: A member of the country music band Trent Summar & the New Row Mob . Baird also was in saxophonist Bobby Keys' band The Suffering Bastards. He also plays with the band The Bluefields, an American rock band that also includes Warner E. Hodges and Joe Blanton (Royal Court of China). Besides The Georgia Satellites, Baird has worked on various musical projects and is a record producer. Baird owns numerous vintage guitars and amplifiers. His favorite guitar

1245-748: A reputation as a difficult and unexciting performer. He also played at large events in North America, such as the Schaefer Music Festival , in New York City's Central Park in July 1969, and the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival in October. Berry helped give life to a subculture ... Even "My Ding-a-Ling", a fourth-grade wee-wee joke that used to mortify true believers at college concerts, permitted

1328-483: A single from the album, charted on October 10, 1992 and peaked at #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 . "The One I Am" charted on January 23, 1993 and peaked at #13 on Billboard 's chart for Album Rock Tracks. In 2005, Baird began touring with his band Homemade Sin, which today features two ex-members of The Georgia Satellites, Baird and drummer Mauro Magellan. Former member of The Georgia Satellites bassist Keith Christopher

1411-530: A six-month suspended jail sentence, placed on two years unsupervised probation, and was ordered to donate $ 5,000 to a local hospital. While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together. It was his particular genius to graft country & western guitar licks onto a rhythm & blues chassis in his very first single, "Maybellene". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame A pioneer of rock and roll, Berry

1494-476: A speaking role as himself and performed "Johnny B. Goode", " Memphis, Tennessee ", and " Little Queenie ". His performance of "Sweet Little Sixteen" at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 was captured in the motion picture Jazz on a Summer's Day . The opening guitar riff of "Johnny B. Goode" is similar to the one used by Louis Jordan in his " Ain't That Just Like a Woman " (1946). Berry acknowledged

1577-460: A student at Sumner High School ; he was still a student there in 1944, when he was arrested for armed robbery after robbing three shops in Kansas City, Missouri , and then stealing a car at gunpoint with some friends. Berry's account in his autobiography is that his car broke down and he flagged down a passing car and stole it at gunpoint with a nonfunctional pistol. He was convicted and sent to

1660-614: A studio record until Rockit for Atco Records in 1979, which would be his last studio album for 38 years. In the 1970s, Berry toured on the strength of his earlier successes. He was on the road for many years, carrying only his Gibson guitar, confident that he could hire a band that already knew his music no matter where he went. AllMusic said that in this period his "live performances became increasingly erratic, ... working with terrible backup bands and turning in sloppy, out-of-tune performances" which "tarnished his reputation with younger fans and oldtimers" alike. In March 1972, he

1743-479: A television special at The Roxy in West Hollywood with Tina Turner as his special guest. The concert was released a year later on home video. In November 2000, Berry faced legal issues when he was sued by his former pianist Johnnie Johnson who claimed that he had co-written over 50 songs, including "No Particular Place to Go", "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll Over Beethoven", that credit Berry alone. The case

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1826-469: A vintage setup very similar to what was used during his tenure with The Georgia Satellites. Creating confusion for some fans, there is a reformed version of The Georgia Satellites featuring original guitarist Rick Richards and bassist Rick Price, who joined the group to replace original bassist Keith Christopher, who left the band prior to their fame. Of their album Screamer , one critic declared, "Dan Baird and Homemade Sin prove once again that they’re one of

1909-458: Is "one of the primary sonic architects of rock and roll." According to Cleveland.com's Troy L. Smith, "Chuck Berry didn't invent rock and roll all by his lonesome. But he was the man who took rhythm and blues and transformed it into a new genre that would ever change popular music. Songs like 'Maybellene,' 'Johnny B. Goode,' 'Roll Over Beethoven' and 'Rock and Roll Music' would showcase the core elements of what rock and roll would become. The sound,

1992-420: Is an original Fender Esquire which belonged to Steve Marriott , who was the lead singer of English bands Small Faces and Humble Pie . With The Georgia Satellites, Baird worked with producer Ian McLagan , who was also a member of Small Faces. Baird is married and does not drink alcohol. During tours, Baird can often be found exercising in hotel gyms. According to Baird's blog on MySpace, he met Neil Young in

2075-421: Is distinctive—he incorporated electronic effects to mimic the sound of bottleneck blues guitarists and drew on the influence of guitar players such as Carl Hogan , and T-Bone Walker to produce a clear and exciting sound that many later guitarists would acknowledge as an influence in their own style. Berry's showmanship has been influential on other rock guitarists, particularly his one-legged hop routine, and

2158-493: Is how bluesed-up macho rock ought to be served: sizzling hot and extra lean, seasoned with a sneaky sense of humor. On his solo debut, Love Songs for the Hearing Impaired , the former Georgia Satellites frontman commands attention like a smart bar-stool bard. Dan Baird spins ribald white-trash tales to familiar Chuck Berry-derived boogie, yet the guitars emit a stinging immediacy. Retro it's not – really." "I Love You Period",

2241-723: Is the only rock-and-roll song included on the Voyager Golden Record . Born in St. Louis , Berry was the youngest child. He grew up in the north St. Louis neighborhood known as the Ville , an area where many middle-class people lived. His father, Henry William Berry (1895–1987) was a contractor and deacon of a nearby Baptist church; his mother, Martha Bell (Banks) (1894–1980) was a certified public school principal. Berry's upbringing allowed him to pursue his interest in music from an early age. He gave his first public performance in 1941 while still

2324-664: The Billboard ' s Top 100 chart, and Berry toured as one of the "Top Acts of '56". He and Carl Perkins became friends. Perkins said that "I knew when I first heard Chuck that he'd been affected by country music. I respected his writing; his records were very, very great." In late 1957, Berry took part in Alan Freed 's "Biggest Show of Stars for 1957", touring the United States with the Everly Brothers , Buddy Holly , and others. He

2407-849: The Intermediate Reformatory for Young Men (now the Algoa Correctional Center) in Jefferson City, Missouri , where he formed a singing quartet and did some boxing. The singing group became competent enough that the authorities allowed it to perform outside the detention facility. Berry was released from the reformatory on his 21st birthday in 1947. On October 28, 1948, Berry married Themetta "Toddy" Suggs, who gave birth to Darlin Ingrid Berry on October 3, 1950. Berry supported his family by taking various jobs in St. Louis, working briefly as

2490-520: The Mann Act after allegations that he had had sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old Apache waitress, Janice Escalante, whom he had transported across state lines to work as a hatcheck girl at his club. After a two-week trial in March 1960, he was convicted , fined $ 5,000, and sentenced to five years in prison. He appealed the decision, arguing that the judge's comments and attitude were racist and prejudiced

2573-418: 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

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2656-469: The " duck walk ", which he first used as a child when he walked "stooping with full-bended knees, but with my back and head vertical" under a table to retrieve a ball and his family found it entertaining; he used it when "performing in New York for the first time and some journalist branded it the duck walk." On July 29, 2011, Berry was honored in a dedication of an eight-foot, in-motion Chuck Berry Statue in

2739-537: The "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". In November his compilation album The Great Twenty-Eight was ranked 21st in Rolling Stone ' s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . In March 2004, Berry was ranked fifth on the list of "The Immortals – The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time". Joe Perry wrote in tribute, "As a songwriter, Chuck Berry is like the Ernest Hemingway of rock & roll. He gets right to

2822-633: The 1970s (often being paid in cash by local promoters), added ammunition to the Internal Revenue Service 's accusations that Berry had evaded paying income taxes. Facing criminal sanction for the third time, Berry pleaded guilty to evading nearly $ 110,000 in federal income tax owed on his 1973 earnings. Newspaper reports in 1979 put his 1973 joint income (with his wife) at $ 374,982. He was sentenced to four months in prison and 1,000 hours of community service—performing benefit concerts —in 1979. Berry continued to play 70 to 100 one-nighters per year in

2905-406: The 1980s, still traveling solo and requiring a local band to back him at each stop. In 1986, Taylor Hackford made a documentary film, Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll , of a celebration concert for Berry's sixtieth birthday, organized by Keith Richards . Eric Clapton , Etta James , Julian Lennon , Robert Cray , and Linda Ronstadt , among others, appeared with Berry on stage and in the film. During

2988-522: The Atlanta band the Nasty Bucks), lead guitarist Rick Richards, bassist Keith Christopher, and drummer David Michaelson formed a band named Keith and the Satellites in Atlanta, Georgia. After performing in local bars, the band's line-up changed. With a new bassist, Dave Hewitt (previously with Babe Ruth ), and a new drummer, Randy DeLay, they recorded a six-track demo at Axis Studios in Atlanta. During this time,

3071-727: The Delmar Loop in St. Louis right across the street from Blueberry Hill. Berry said, "It's glorious—I do appreciate it to the highest, no doubt about it. That sort of honor is seldom given out. But I don't deserve it." Rock critic Robert Christgau considers Berry "the greatest of the rock and rollers", and John Lennon said, "if you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." Ted Nugent said, "If you don't know every Chuck Berry lick, you can't play rock guitar." Bob Dylan called Berry "the Shakespeare of rock 'n' roll". Bruce Springsteen tweeted, "Chuck Berry

3154-678: The EP was positive and prompted the band to regroup. Baird had been playing with the Woodpeckers in North Carolina. Richards had remained in Atlanta with the Hell Hounds, which included both Mauro Magellan (drums) and Rick Price (bass, formerly of the Brains ). With Baird essentially joining the Hell Hounds, the Georgia Satellites were reborn and American record labels started taking notice of the band. In 1986,

3237-792: The Georgia Satellites included a selection of the best tracks from the three studio albums and bonus material that had been released on the Another Chance EP (1989): "Saddle Up," "That Woman," and "I'm Waiting for the Man." Also included was a live version of Chuck Berry 's " Let It Rock ." After a brief sabbatical following the departure of Dan Baird, the Georgia Satellites reunited in 1993. Their current lineup, led by original member Rick Richards (lead guitar, backing and lead vocals), along with Fred McNeal (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Bruce Smith (bass, backing vocals) and Todd Johnston (drums) continues to perform live shows. The album Shaken Not Stirred (1996),

3320-655: The Pain", but the Satellites never had another top 40 hit. That same year, the MTV Video Music Awards came into being. Mary Deacon won for Best Art Director for the music video "Keep Your Hands to Yourself". In 1988, the band recorded a cover of The Swinging Blue Jeans' 1964 hit " Hippy Hippy Shake " for the movie Cocktail . Released as a single, the song reached No. 45 on the Billboard chart . The band also released its second album that year, Open All Night , which included

3403-511: The Rolling Stones in the shape of a guitar. Afterwards a private service was held in the club celebrating Berry's life and musical career, with the Berry family inviting 300 members of the public into the service. Gene Simmons of Kiss gave an impromptu, unadvertised eulogy at the service, while Little Richard was scheduled to lead the funeral procession but was unable to attend due to an illness. The night before, many St. Louis area bars held

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3486-582: The Tony Sarno Band and the Hell Hounds around the Atlanta music circuit, before dying of cancer in 1993 at age 40. Although the band members felt they were not making any progress on their musical path and had disbanded, their English manager, Kevin Jennings, took the demo to a small London record label, Making Waves, who liked the material and released the demo as the Keep the Faith EP in 1985. The press response to

3569-509: The band a set list and expected the musicians to follow his lead after each guitar intro. Berry did not speak to the band after the show. Nevertheless, Springsteen backed Berry again when he appeared at the concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.) At the request of Jimmy Carter , Berry performed at the White House on June 1, 1979. Berry's touring style, traveling the "oldies" circuit in

3652-427: The band changed its name to Georgia Satellites and played every Monday at Hedgens, a bar in the Atlanta neighborhood of Buckhead . Jeff Glixman , who had produced, mixed, and remastered artists such as Paul Stanley , Kansas , Gary Moore , Yngwie Malmsteen , and Black Sabbath , was enlisted for production. However, soon after the demo was recorded, the band broke up in the summer of 1984. DeLay later performed with

3735-459: The band in 1990 to pursue a solo career. He is often credited as one of the pioneers in cowpunk and alt-country music, which combines elements of rock music, country music , outlaw country , and punk rock . Baird was born in San Diego , California , United States. When he was about three, his family moved to Seattle , Washington , for about a year, then to Atlanta, Georgia . His father

3818-512: The band in 1990 to pursue a solo career. Of his departure, Baird said, "It came about by my inability to turn in really good shows." He elaborated, saying, "I developed a very shitty attitude about the band. So, one morning I woke up and fired myself. We were together for 10 years and we weren't able to inspire each other anymore. It's like any relationship that starts getting too old. There was just certain things that started getting lackadaisical." The band's 1993 compilation Let It Rock: The Best of

3901-557: The concert, Berry played a Gibson ES-355 , the luxury version of the ES-335 that he favored on his 1970s tours. Richards played a black Fender Telecaster Custom, Cray a Fender Stratocaster and Clapton a Gibson ES 350T, the same model that Berry used on his early recordings. In the late 1980s, Berry bought the Southern Air , a restaurant in Wentzville, Missouri . In 1982, Berry performed

3984-606: The cultures were so far apart, we would have to have a play station in order to play it. The cultures begin to come together, and you begin to see one another's vein of life, then the music came together." Among the honors Berry received were the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984 and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000. He was ranked seventh on Time magazine's 2009 list of the 10 best electric guitar players of all time. On May 14, 2002, Berry

4067-460: The debt to Jordan and several sources have indicated that his work was influenced by Jordan in general. By the end of the 1950s, Berry was a high-profile established star with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career. He had opened a racially integrated St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand, and invested in real estate. But in December 1959, he was arrested under

4150-437: The early 1950s, Berry was working with local bands in clubs in St. Louis as an extra source of income. He had been playing blues since his teens, and he borrowed both guitar riffs and showmanship techniques from the blues musician T-Bone Walker . He also took guitar lessons from his friend Ira Harris, which laid the foundation for his guitar style. By early 1953, Berry was performing with Johnnie Johnson 's trio, starting

4233-477: The early teenage market by using graphic and humorous descriptions of teen dances, fast cars, high school life, and consumer culture, and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music. Thus Berry, the songwriter, according to critic Jon Pareles , invented rock as "a music of teenage wishes fulfilled and good times (even with cops in pursuit)." Berry contributed three things to rock music: an irresistible swagger,

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4316-636: The end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star, with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand. He was sentenced to three years in prison in January 1962 for offenses under the Mann Act —he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines for the purpose of having sexual intercourse. After his release in 1963, Berry had several more successful songs, including " No Particular Place to Go ", " You Never Can Tell ", and " Nadine ". However, these did not achieve

4399-545: The face." He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of harassment and paid a $ 250 fine. In 1990, he was sued by several women who claimed that he had installed a video camera in the bathroom of his restaurant. Berry claimed that he had the camera installed to catch a worker who was suspected of stealing from the restaurant. Although his guilt was never proven in court, Berry opted for a class action settlement. One of his biographers, Bruce Pegg, estimated that it cost Berry over $ 1.2 million plus legal fees. His lawyers said he had been

4482-510: The group signed with Elektra Records and reunited with Glixman to record their debut full-length album at Cheshire Sound Studios in Atlanta. The album, Georgia Satellites , was their most successful LP, featuring the track " Keep Your Hands to Yourself ". The song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 , behind Bon Jovi 's " Livin' on a Prayer ". It went into heavy rotation on MTV . Other lesser-known songs included " Battleship Chains " (No. 86), written by Terry Anderson , and "Can't Stand

4565-590: 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 magazine's rhythm and blues chart. By

4648-450: The gym 4 times a week, shave on Friday and go to sleep with my sweetie beside me every night." In 2017, Baird was forced to cancel the remainder of a tour with his band Homemade Sin and take the rest of the year off to battle an inherited form of leukemia. Chuck Berry Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll . Nicknamed

4731-429: The jury against him. The appeal was upheld, and a second trial was heard in May and June 1961, resulting in another conviction and a three-year prison sentence. After another appeal failed, Berry served one and one-half years in prison, from February 1962 to October 1963. He had continued recording and performing during the trials, but his output had slowed as his popularity declined; his final single released before he

4814-470: The label which released Berry's final album, Chuck , agreed to publish all his compositions in the United States. Berry is interred in a mausoleum in Bellerive Gardens Cemetery in St. Louis. In 1987, Berry was charged with assaulting a woman at New York's Gramercy Park Hotel . He was accused of causing "lacerations of the mouth, requiring five stitches, two loose teeth, [and] contusions of

4897-424: The last true rock and roll bands carrying the flag first hoisted by Chuck Berry , and they’ll continue to wave it regardless of whatever the flavor of the month happens to be, and no matter how tattered it looks." He has recorded with other artists, including The Yayhoos and Will Hoge . Baird was one of the original members of Hoge's band before leaving to pursue individual ventures. Baird has also performed as

4980-463: The live album he was backed by the Steve Miller Band . Although this period was not a successful one for studio work, Berry was still a top concert draw. In May 1964, he had made a successful tour of the UK, but when he returned in January 1965, his behavior was erratic and moody, and his touring style of using unrehearsed local backing bands and a strict nonnegotiable contract was earning him

5063-547: The melody of Berry's " Sweet Little Sixteen ". In 1964 and 1965 Berry released eight singles, including three that were commercially successful, reaching the top 20 of the Billboard 100: " No Particular Place to Go " (a humorous reworking of "School Days", concerning the introduction of seat belts in cars), " You Never Can Tell ", and the rocking " Nadine ". Between 1966 and 1969, Berry released five albums for Mercury Records , including his second live album (and first recorded entirely onstage), Live at Fillmore Auditorium ; for

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5146-1087: The point. He tells a story in short sentences. You get a great picture in your mind of what's going on, in a very short amount of space, in well-picked words   ... kids today are playing the same three chords, trying to play in that same style. Turn the guitars up, and it's punk rock . It's the Ramones and the Sex Pistols . I hear it in the White Stripes , too. People will always cover Chuck Berry songs. When bands go do their homework, they will have to listen to Chuck Berry. If you want to learn about rock & roll, if you want to play rock & roll, you have to start there." In December 2004, six of his songs were included in " Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ": " Johnny B. Goode " (#7), " Maybellene " (#18), " Roll Over Beethoven " (#97), " Rock and Roll Music " (#128), " Sweet Little Sixteen " (#272) and " Brown Eyed Handsome Man " (#374). In June 2008, his song "Johnny B. Goode"

5229-497: The right time when Afro-American music was spilling over into the mainstream pop." When Berry first saw a copy of the Maybellene record, he was surprised that two other individuals, including DJ Alan Freed had been given writing credit; that would entitle them to some of the royalties. After a court battle, Berry was able to regain full writing credit. At the end of June 1956, his song " Roll Over Beethoven " reached number 29 on

5312-448: The same success or lasting impact of his 1950s songs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgia performer, playing his past material with local backup bands of variable quality. In 1972, he reached a new level of achievement when a rendition of " My Ding-a-Ling " became his only record to top the charts. His insistence on being paid in cash led in 1979 to a four-month jail sentence and community service, for tax evasion . Berry

5395-401: The spectrum from hard-driving rockers to soulful thought-provoking time capsules of a life's work" and dedicated to his wife Toddy. On March 18, 2017, Berry was found unresponsive at his home near Wentzville, Missouri . Emergency workers called to the scene were unable to revive him, and he was pronounced dead by his personal physician. TMZ posted an audio recording on its website in which

5478-405: The talents of Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke as well as seasoned Atlanta musicians Nicky Ford, Jeff Bakos, and Kevin "Snit" Fitzpatrick. In September 2015, Richards reported to Hartford Courant that The Georgia Satellites were working on new music. In an April 2021 interview, however, Richards stated that the band has no plans to release a new album. The band released Lightnin' in a Bottle ,

5561-677: The tracks "I Hope These Words Will Find You Well" and "Oh, Maria!" with the group Joe Alexander & the Cubans. The songs were released as a single on the Ballad label. Berry's showmanship, along with a mix of country tunes and R&B tunes, sung in the style of Nat King Cole set to the music of Muddy Waters brought in a wider audience, particularly affluent white people. In May 1955, Berry traveled to Chicago, where he met Muddy Waters who suggested he contact Leonard Chess , of Chess Records . Berry thought his blues music would interest Chess, but Chess

5644-406: The victim of a conspiracy to profit from his wealth. Reportedly, a police raid on his house found intimate videotapes of women, one of whom was apparently a minor. Also found in the raid were 62 grams of marijuana . Felony drug and child abuse charges were filed. The child abuse charges were eventually dropped, and Berry agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor possession of marijuana. He was given

5727-585: Was 'definitely' no one like Chuck Berry." Rolling Stone called him "the father of rock & roll" who "gave the music its sound and its attitude, even as he battled racism—and his own misdeeds—all the way," reporting that Leonard Cohen said, "All of us are footnotes to the words of Chuck Berry." Kevin Strait, curator of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, said that Berry

5810-523: Was a guest on ABC 's Guy Mitchell Show , singing his hit song "Rock 'n' Roll Music". The hits continued from 1957 to 1959, with Berry scoring over a dozen chart singles during this period, including the US Top 10 hits " School Days ", " Rock and Roll Music ", " Sweet Little Sixteen ", and " Johnny B. Goode ". He appeared in two early rock-and-roll movies: Rock Rock Rock (1956), in which he sang "You Can't Catch Me", and Go, Johnny, Go! (1959), in which he had

5893-569: Was a larger fan of Berry's take on " Ida Red ". On May 21, 1955, Berry recorded an adaptation of the song "Ida Red", under the title " Maybellene ", with Johnnie Johnson on the piano, Jerome Green (from Bo Diddley 's band) on the maracas, Ebby Hardy on the drums and Willie Dixon on the bass. "Maybellene" sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues chart and number five on its Best Sellers in Stores chart for September 10, 1955. Berry said, "It came out at

5976-483: 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

6059-541: Was a mix of re-recordings of their earlier material and eight new songs: "Running Out," "Let It Rock (Bye Bye Johnny)," "Deep in the Heart of Dixie," "Anna Lee," "My Fault," "Shaken Not Stirred," "She Fades Away" and "Rain." Baird performs with his band, Homemade Sin, which features three former members of the Georgia Satellites. Mauro Magellan joined The Crashers after moving to Wisconsin in the early 1990s. Mauro played on both of Baird's solo albums and continues to tour with him as

6142-412: Was a significant influence on the development of both the music and the attitude associated with the rock music lifestyle. With songs such as " Maybellene " (1955), " Roll Over Beethoven " (1956), " Rock and Roll Music " (1957) and " Johnny B. Goode " (1958), Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics successfully aimed to appeal to

6225-526: Was a telecommunications engineer for U.S. Navy nuclear submarines and his mother was a housewife who worked odd jobs after their divorce. Baird released his first solo album, Love Songs for the Hearing Impaired , in October 1992, produced by Brendan O'Brien with Executive Producer Rick Rubin , who founded Def American Recordings. A review in Rolling Stone magazine praised its combination of foot-stomping redneck rock and slyly intelligent lyrics: "This

6308-623: Was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986; he was cited for having "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance." Berry is included in several of Rolling Stone magazine's "greatest of all time" lists; he was ranked fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and 2nd greatest guitarist of all time in 2023. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll includes three of Berry's: "Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", and "Rock and Roll Music". "Johnny B. Goode"

6391-909: Was dismissed when the judge ruled that too much time had passed since the songs were written. In 2008, Berry toured Europe, with stops in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland, and Spain. In mid-2008, he played at the Virgin Festival in Baltimore . During a concert on New Year's Day 2011 in Chicago, Berry, suffering from exhaustion, passed out and had to be helped off stage. Berry lived in Ladue, Missouri , approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of St. Louis. He also had

6474-582: Was filmed, at the BBC Television Theatre in Shepherds Bush, for Chuck Berry in Concert , part of a 60-date tour backed by the band Rocking Horse. Among the many bandleaders performing a backup role with Berry in the 1970s, were Bruce Springsteen and Steve Miller when each was just starting his career. (Springsteen related in the documentary film Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll that Berry did not give

6557-459: Was honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards. He was presented the award along with BMI affiliates Bo Diddley and Little Richard . In August 2014, Berry was made a laureate of the Polar Music Prize . Berry is included in several of Rolling Stone magazine's "Greatest of All Time" lists. In September 2003, the magazine ranked him number 6 in its list of

6640-456: Was imprisoned was " Come On ". When Berry was released from prison in 1963, his return to recording and performing was made easier because British invasion bands—notably the Beatles and the Rolling Stones —had sustained interest in his music by releasing cover versions of his songs, and other bands had reworked some of them, such as the Beach Boys ' 1963 hit " Surfin' U.S.A. ", which used

6723-410: Was ranked first in the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Berry at number 96 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. The journalist Chuck Klosterman has argued that in 300 years Berry will still be remembered as the rock musician who most closely captured the essence of rock and roll. Time magazine stated, "There was no one like Elvis. But there

6806-483: Was replaced during 2014 by Micke Nilsson. Homemade Sin also includes guitarist Warner E. Hodges , who tours and records with Jason & the Scorchers (a cowpunk originating band as well). Homemade Sin performs a mixture of Baird's solo material in addition to the hits and fan favorites from his years with The Georgia Satellites. To achieve a similar classic tube amplifier sound with Homemade Sin, Baird relies heavily on

6889-405: Was rock's greatest practitioner, guitarist, and the greatest pure rock 'n' roll writer who ever lived." When asked what caused the explosion of the popularity of rock 'n roll that took place in the 1950s, with him and a handful of others, mainly him, Berry said, "Well, actually they begin to listen to it, you see, because certain stations played certain music. The music that we, the blacks, played,

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