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 ...

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

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 ...

Chuck Berry is a figure who is central to the whole meaning of rock 'n' roll, but what do we really know about what made him so important? With the release of Berry's entire recorded output from the ...

Berry knew how highly he was esteemed. So much so that, starting around the mid-to-late ’60s, he would go on tour all alone, playing with whatever pickup bands were available at the time and trusting ...

This is an abridged version of an essay published in Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader, which was adapted from a talk delivered at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. The poet Amiri Baraka liked to ask ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. St. Louis’ own rock ’n’ roll pioneer Chuck Berry turns 90 on Tuesday, but he’s the one who will be giving fans a gift. Berry will ...