In his 90 years, the legendary Chuck Berry recorded hundreds of songs, including 13 top 10 R&B hits and seven pop smashes. Born Charles Edward Anderson Berry in 1926, the future Father of Rock & Roll ...

The world of popular music wouldn’t be the same without Chuck Berry. The rock ‘n’ roll pioneer helped inspire bands such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and other classic rock stalwarts. One of Keith ...

After 60 years of making music, Keith Richards and the Rolling Stones have influenced countless musicians, and not just with their tunes. The Stones have faced several challenges over the years, and ...

Revisiting comments from The Kinks duo Ray and Dave Davies about their love of Chuck Berry, plus how they ripped him off for ...

According to Chuck Berry’s son, Charles Berry, Jr., his father, toward the end of his life, had one goal in mind for his latest album: he just wanted to make sure that people had a chance to hear it.

Album art for CHUCK, which is slated for a June 16 release on Dualtone Records. Illustration by Rachel Briggs Even in death, Chuck Berry is a gift that keeps on giving. “Big Boys,” the lead single ...

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 ...

It wasn’t supposed to take four decades to make what turned out to be Chuck Berry’s final album. In fact, very soon after the release of his 1979 work “Rock It,” one of the primary architects of the ...

Chuck Berry fuses boogie woogie and classic blues on “Wonderful Woman,” the lead track from Chuck, an upcoming collection of songs recorded between 1991 and 2014. Chuck marks the first Berry album to ...

Chuck Berry left us one hell of a swan song before he died on March 18. He’d already turned 90 in 2016 when he announced that “Chuck,” his first album of new material since 1979’s “Rock It,” finally ...

This is FRESH AIR. Chuck Berry, who died this past March at the age of 90, left behind an album of new material, his first such collection since "Rock It" in 1979. Our rock critic Ken Tucker says this ...

They say write what you know and Chuck knew rock 'n' roll! From the start-and-stop rhythmic magic to the vivid picture of our protagonist dancing with a woman twice his size. This is the stuff of rock ...