Chuck Berry, the pioneer of rock and roll and one of the guitarists and most influential authors of the genre, meet today 90 years and celebrated of whole cloth: it will launch Chuck, a new album after 38 years of absence studies.
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So, the african-american born in Missouri, as Charles Edward Anderson Berry, you will return to the bullring album, via Dualtone Records, the next year after Rock It, 1979: the last album entirely produced, written and recorded by this rock legend.
And Chuck is dedicated to his wife of 68 years, Themetta Berry. “This album is dedicated to my beloved Toddy,” said the creator of anthems from the rock as Roll Over Beethoven (1956), Rock and Roll Music (1957) and Johnny B. Goode (1958), among many others, in a press release. “My dear, I’m getting old! I have worked on this album for a long time. Now I can hang up my shoes!”, added the hero of rock and roll, rockabilly and R&B.
Chuck Berry recorded with his backing band of a lifetime, which includes your children Charles Berry Jr. (on guitar), and Ingrid Berry (on harmonica), as well as bassist Jimmy Marsala, who played with Berry for 40 years, pianist Robert Lohr and drummer Keith Robinson. This band played next to Berry in the famous shows of Blueberry Club in the past two decades.
“it Is an honor to be part of this new music,” said Charles Berry Jr. in another press release. “The band of St. Louis, or as dad called us ‘the Blueberry Hill Band,’ fell right on the groove and followed his example. These songs cover the entire spectrum of the rock”, he concluded.
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From the fingers of Chuck Berry, they went out the chords and scores of such classics as Maybellene (1955), and Roll Over Beethoven (1956), Rock and Roll Music (1957) and Johnny B. Goode (1958). This last is not only his most popular song, but that was considered the best song of guitar in the history of rock, according to Rolling Stone magazine.
Already said Stevie Wonder, with clarity: “there is Only one true king of rock’n’roll. It’s called Chuck Berry”.
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