The terrible news just reached me
that rock and roll legend Chuck Berry passed away on March 18, 2017 at the
tender age of 90!
Charles Edward Anderson Berry was
born in St. Louis, MO on October 18, 1926. He was interested in music
at a young age, and first performed publicly in high school.
Berry had several hits throughout
the 1950s and 1960s, such as Maybellene (1955), Roll Over Beethoven
(1956), Johnny B. Goode (1958), and No Particular Place to Go (1964).
He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame during its inaugural year (1986). He received accolades for
“having laid the groundwork for… a rock and roll sound”. He was one of the most influential musicians of the genre.
Mr. Berry received a Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984, and is honored in several of Rolling Stones
magazine’s greatest of all times lists.
Mr. Berry appeared in several
movies about his style of music, and his music was featured in the 1994 movie Pulp
Fiction. He is now gone, but his music will never be forgotten.
Chuck Berry [1926 – 2017]
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