The music legend, who died Saturday at 90, is recalled by the director of 1987's 'Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock n' Roll' as a difficult talent who demanded cash in a paper bag but earned the title of ...

Rock n’ roll was more than a new kind of music, but a new story to tell, one for kids with transistor radios in their hands and money in their pockets, beginning to raise questions their parents never ...

Chuck Berry, the legendary “Father of Rock ’N’ Roll,” died at his home in Missouri on Saturday, said police in St. Charles County, just north of St. Louis. He was 90 years old. The composer and guitar ...

Bob Dylan once called Chuck Berry the “Shakespeare of rock and roll.” John Lennon said Berry’s name was synonymous with rock and roll itself. In honor of what would have been Berry’s 95th birthday on ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- There’s a reason why John Lennon famously said, “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry.’” The first-ever Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee ...

Legendary musician Chuck Berry has died, police confirm. He was 90. The St. Charles County Police Department in Missouri confirmed on Facebook that they responded to a medical emergency on Saturday ...

Adam Behr receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council The process by which new genres emerge from previous music forms is complex and muddy, and the boundaries between them porous.

Every musician borrows, and The Beatles were no different. They were the first to acknowledge that to anyone who asked. Paul McCartney once said the band would simply “pinch as much from other people ...

Jon Brewer’s documentary about the musical legend is far more traditional than its subject. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we ...

But for more than a few who came to the news through social media, it was also a moment of profound revelation. Granted, it’s possible many, even most people hadn’t spared a thought in years for ...

In the 1950s, Chuck Berry learned a lesson in the music business right here in Fayetteville. Unfortunately, it was a hard one. But according to one biographer, Berry used the experience to learn how ...

Publicity photo for Chuck Berry, circa 1957. Public domain, via Wikipedia. Chuck Berry, the man whose name John Lennon once said was synonymous with rock and roll, has died at age 90, according to the ...