Chuck Berry was one of the most remarkable man to ever play rock and roll. In the mid-Fifties, he took a new image of rock n roll, from rhythm & blues, country & western, and gave it a new form and uniqueness. A true innovative, Chuck Berry created several of rock and roll’s greatest tunes and married them to lines that formed the rock and roll language for generations. He has written many rock and roll classics that have been covered by a lot of artists. In all crucial techniques, he understood the influence of rock and roll, how it worked, what it was about and who it was for.
While no other man can be said to have created rock and roll, Berry debatably did more than anyone else to put the pieces together. As rock journalist Dave Marsh wrote, “Chuck Berry is to rock and roll what Louis Armstrong is to jazz.” On “Maybellene” Berry’s first single, released in 1955 where he performed country &
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Released in August, "Maybellene" went to Number Five in Billboard which made Berry a relative rare case for that time: a black performer with a main hit on the principal white pop charts. “As asked why he crossed over with “Maybellene” and other hits while many other worthy artists were locked out, Berry replied: "I think it had a lot to do with my diction. The pop fan could understand what I was saying better than many other singers." His achievements also had much to do with his ability for turning a phrase. With his amusing and casually expressive use of language, Berry described what it meant to be a teenager in the exchanging world of the Fifties. Whether telling the boredom of classroom-bound students in "School Day" or the liberating appeal of "Rock and Roll Music", Berry intensely observed and recorded that world with clever comfort. In his words, "Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people