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Chuck Berry Biography

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. 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. Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.

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Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.

Beethoven, News, Tchaikovsky, Tell

A song is a song. But there are some songs, ah, some songs are the greatest. The Beatles song Yesterday. Listen to the lyrics.

Greatest, Song, Songs, Yesterday

Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.

Budge, Dating, Felt, Home, Imagine, Safety

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

Alive, Culture, Important, Keeping, Part, Play

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

Black, Black History, Guess, Mad, Make, Word

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

Judge, Judging, Mean, Praise

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?"

Black, Country, Curiosity, Hillbilly, Provoked

Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.

Character, Thinking, People, Actors, Insert

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

Rock, Rock And Roll, Rocks, Roll, Short

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

Simple, Sound, Looks, Produce, Stuff

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Education, Health, Important, Knowledge, Things In Life, Two

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

Bell, Bells, Guitar, Play

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues. . . It's called rock now.

Blues, Rhythm, Rhythm And Blues, Rocks, Used

Maybellene, why can't you be true?

Being True, Maybellene, True

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

Blues, Ifs, Sing

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

Games, Long, Looks, Submit, Ask

The gateway to freedom. . . was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.

Biased, Boys, Country, Lived, Say, Song

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

Artist, Fighting, Foolish, Having, Making Love, World

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

Rocks, Guitar, Want, Roll, Christmas

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won't you play with my ding-a-ling.

Controversy, Play

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