Chuck Berry, the late father of rock n’ roll, was an “astute” business man who took all of his contracts into his own hands, his lawyer says. As a result, his family will benefit from his massive ...

It's a well-known fact that Chuck Berry was buried with a Gibson ES-355 semihollow electric guitar to keep him company in the afterlife. But the story of how the guitar came to join Chuck in his ...

The death of Chuck Berry, one of rock ’n’ roll’s founding fathers, has brought a flood of well-deserved tributes and eulogies for the man who helped change the course of Western culture. But Charles ...

Chuck Berry died on Saturday at the age of 90. The legendary guitarist and rock and roll pioneer was gearing up to release CHUCK, his first studio album in 38 years (the record is still due to some ...

A Beatles No. 1 became a defining hit, yet the inspiration behind Come Together eventually brought John Lennon into legal ...

Chuck Berry, one of the original pillars of rock ‘n’ roll and a true giant in the history of recorded music, died Saturday, March 18 at age 90. Actually, if we’re going to go with an architecture ...

Rock star Alice Cooper, Kiss guitarist Gene Simmons, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry and multiple members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band talk about the icon's influence in new film Chuck Berry ...

According to a 1970 interview transcribed in the book Lennon Remembers, John Lennon was a huge fan of Berry. “Chuck Berry is one of the all-time great poets,” John said. “A rock poet you could call ...

The world of popular music wouldn’t be the same without Chuck Berry. The rock ‘n’ roll pioneer helped inspire bands such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and other classic rock stalwarts. One of Keith ...

The early history of rock music is littered with conscious-altering moments. Elvis swiveling his hips on The Ed Sullivan Show; Jayne Mansfield strutting to Little Richard in The Girl Can’t Help It; ...

One of the original knocks against teen-oriented rock music in the 1950s, when the form was born, came from an earlier generation that had grown up with the sophisticated, erudite songs of composers ...

My first encounter with Berry didn’t go so well. In four decades as a music journalist, I’ve seen Berry many times — concerts that ran the gamut from pedestrian to thrilling. Along the way, I also had ...