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Chuck Berry Discography ALAC
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Genre:  Rock 'n' Roll 
Year:  1957 - 2009 
Format:  ALAC (Tracks) 
Bitrate:  Lossless 
Total playing time:  1 day 49 minutes 30 seconds


1957 - After School Session
1959 - Chuck Berry Is On Top
1967 - Golden Hits
1972 - The London Chuck Berry Sessions
1984 - Greatest Hits
1987 - Rockin at the Hops
1993 - Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
1994 - Chuck Berry With The Miller Band - Live At The Fillmore Auditorium
1996 - Let It Rock
1996 - Rock And Roll Music
1999 - One Dozen Berrys - Juke Box Hits
2000 - All Stars 2000
2000 - Gold
2003 - Blues
2004 - St. Louis To Liverpool
2006 - You Came A Long Way From St. Louis - The Many Sides Of Chuck Berry
2007 - Johnny B. Goode His Complete '50's
2009 - You Never Can Tell His Complete Chess Recordings 1960 - 1966


Background information


Birth name
Charles Edward Anderson Berry 

Born
October 18, 1926 (age 87)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. 

Genres
Rock and roll 

Occupations
Musician, songwriter 

Instruments
Guitar, vocals 

Years active
1955ΓÇôpresent 

Labels
Chess, Mercury, Atco 

Website
www.chuckberry.com 


Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.

Born into a middle-class family in St. Louis, Missouri, Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School. While still a high school student he served a prison sentence for armed robbery from 1944 to 1947. On his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant. By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of blues player T-Bone Walker, he was performing in the evenings with the Johnnie Johnson Trio.His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955, and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess of Chess Records. With Chess he recorded "Maybellene" ΓÇö Berry's adaptation of the country song "Ida Red" ΓÇö which sold over a million copies, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues chart. By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star with several hit records and film appearances to his name as well as a lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St. Louis-based nightclub, called Berry's Club Bandstand. But in January 1962, Berry was sentenced to three years in prison for offenses under the Mann Act ΓÇö he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines.

After his release in 1963, Berry had several more hits, including "No Particular Place to Go," "You Never Can Tell," and "Nadine," but these did not achieve the same success, or lasting impact, of his 1950s songs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgic live performer, playing his past hits with local backup bands of variable quality. His insistence on being paid in cash led to a jail sentence in 1979 ΓÇö four months and community service for tax evasion.

Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986, with the comment that he "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance." Berry is included in several Rolling Stone "Greatest of All Time" lists, including being ranked fifth on their 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll included three of Chuck Berry's songs: "Johnny B. Goode," "Maybellene," and "Rock and Roll Music." Today, at the age of 87, Berry continues to play live.