Chuck Berry

Biography

Of all early breakthrough rock and roll & move artists, non-e was more vital that you the introduction of the music than Chuck Berry. He was its most significant songwriter, the primary shaper of its instrumental tone of voice, among its most significant guitarists, and something of its most significant performers. Simply, without him there will be no Beatles, Moving Rocks, Beach Children, Bob Dylan, nor myriad others. There will be no regular “Chuck Berry electric guitar intro,” the instrument’s clarion contact to have the joint rockin’ in virtually any setting up. The clippety-clop rhythms of rockabilly wouldn’t normally have already been mainstreamed in to the today regular 4/4 rock and roll & roll defeat. There will be no obsessive wordplay by modern-day tunesmiths; actually, the whole background (and creative level) of rock and roll & move songwriting could have been very much poorer without him. Like Brian Wilson stated, he published “all the great tunes and developed all the rock and roll & move beats.” Those that do not state him like a seminal impact or profess a liking for his music and showmanship display their ignorance of rock’s advancement in addition to his place because the music’s 1st great inventor. Elvis might have fueled rock and roll & roll’s imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and unique mindset. He was created Charles Edward Anderson Berry to a big family members in St. Louis. A shiny pupil, Berry created a like for poetry and hard blues in early stages, earning a high-school skill contest having a guitar-and-vocal rendition of Jay McShann’s big-band quantity “Confessin’ the Blues.” With some regional tutelage from a nearby barber, Berry advanced from a four-string tenor acoustic guitar up to the official six-string model and was shortly working the neighborhood East St. Louis membership scene, sitting down in all over the place he could. He quickly discovered that dark viewers liked a multitude of music and established himself to the duty of being in a position to reproduce as a lot of it as you possibly can. What he discovered they really enjoyed — aside from the blues and Nat Ruler Cole music — was the view and sound of the dark guy playing white hillbilly music, and Berry’s showmanlike flair, in conjunction with his apparently inexhaustible way to obtain fresh new verses to previous favorites, quickly produced him a name over the circuit. In 1954, he finished up overtaking pianist Johnny Johnson’s little combo, along with a residency on the Cosmopolitan Membership shortly produced the Chuck Berry Trio the very best attraction within the dark community, with Ike Turner’s Kings of Tempo their only competition. But Berry acquired bigger tips; he yearned to create records, and a vacation to Chicago netted a two-minute discussion along with his idol Muddy Waters, who urged him to strategy Chess Information. Upon hearing Berry’s homemade demonstration tape, label chief executive Leonard Chess professed a liking to get a hillbilly tune onto it called “Ida Crimson” and quickly planned a program for May 21, 1955. Through the program the name was transformed to “Maybellene” and rock and roll & roll background was born. Even though record only managed to get towards the mid-20s within the Billboard pop graph, its overall impact was substantial and groundbreaking in its range. Finally, right here was a dark rock and roll & move record with across-the-board charm, embraced by white teens and Southern hillbilly music artists (a Elvis Presley, still a complete calendar year from nationwide stardom, quickly added it to his stage present), that for once couldn’t end up being successfully included in a pop vocalist like Snooky Lanson on your own Hit Parade. Area of the top secret to its originality was Berry’s blazing 24-club guitar solo in the center of it, the imaginative rhyme plans within the lyrics, as well as the pure thump from the record, all signaling that rock and roll & roll got arrived and it had been no fad. Assisting to place the record to a white teenage viewers was the extremely influential NY disk jockey Alan Freed, who was simply given area of the authors’ credit by Chess in substitution for his spins and plugs. But to his credit, Freed was also the very first white DJ/promoter to regularly make use of Berry on his rock and roll & move stage display extravaganzas on the Brooklyn Fox and Paramount Theaters (playing to predominately white viewers); so when Hollywood emerged calling a 12 months afterwards, he also ensured that Berry made an appearance with him in Rock and roll! Rock! Rock!, Move, Johnny, Move!, and Mister Rock’n’Roll. In just a year’s period, Berry had opted from an area St. Louis blues picker producing $15.00 a night for an overnight sensation commanding over 100 times that, coming to the dawn of a fresh stress of popular music known as rock and roll & move. The strikes started coming heavy and fast on the next couple of years, all of them going to become a traditional from the genre: “Move Over Beethoven,” “FOUR WEEKS,” “AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF Monkey Business,” “Dark brown Eyed Handsome Guy,” “You Can’t Capture Me,” “College Time,” “Carol,” “Back the U.S.A.,” “Small Queenie,” “Memphis, Tennessee,” “Johnny B. Goode,” as well as the tune that described the moment flawlessly, “Stone Music.” Berry had not been only in continuous demand, touring the united states on mixed bundle shows and showing up on tv and in films, but smart plenty of to know precisely what regarding the spoils of the suddenly successful display business profession. He started trading greatly in St. Louis region property and, ever someone to drive the envelope, exposed a racially combined nightspot known as The Golf club Bandstand in 1958 towards the consternation of uptight local people. These were not really the plans of the average R&B performers who contented themselves having a closet of flashy fits, a fresh Cadillac, as well as the nicest home within the dark section. Berry was clever, with a lot of business savvy, and had been making programs to open up an amusement recreation area in close by Wentzville. Once the St. Louis hierarchy discovered an underage hat-check young lady Berry hired got also create shop being a prostitute in a close by hotel, trouble emerged straight down on Berry such as a sledgehammer on the fly. Charged with carrying a over condition lines (the Mann Work), Berry endured two studies and was sentenced to federal government prison for just two years because of this. He surfaced from jail a moody, embittered guy. But two essential things had occurred in his lack. First, British teens had found out his music and had been making his aged tunes strikes yet again. Second, as well as perhaps most significant, America had found out the Beatles as well as the Rolling Rocks, both of whom centered their music on Berry’s design, with the Rocks’ early albums searching such as a Berry tune list. Instead of being resigned towards the has-been circuit, Berry discovered himself amid a worldwide defeat boom along with his music because the centerpiece. He returned using a clutch of strikes (“Nadine,” “No Particular Spot to Move,” “You Under no circumstances Can Inform”), toured Britain in triumph, and made an appearance for the big screen along with his United kingdom disciples within the groundbreaking T.A.M.We. Display in 1964. Berry experienced moved with the changing times and discovered a new target audience within the bargain, so when the cries of “yeah-yeah-yeah” had been replaced with serenity signs, Berry modified his live take action to add a passel of sluggish blues and quickly became a fixture around the event and hippie ballroom circuit. Following a devastating stint with Mercury Information, he came back to Chess in the first ’70s and obtained his last strike using a live edition from the salacious nursery rhyme “My Ding-A-Ling,” yielding Berry his initial official yellow metal record. By decade’s end, he was as in-demand as ever, functioning every oldies revival present, TV particular, and celebration that was tossed his method. But once more, troubles with regulations reared their unappealing mind and 1979 noticed Berry headed back again to prison, this time around for tax evasion. Upon discharge this time around, the creative times of Chuck Berry appeared to attended to a finish. He made an appearance as himself within the Alan Freed biopic American Warm Polish, and was inducted in to the Stone Hall of Popularity, but steadfastly refused to record any fresh material as well as concern a live recording. His live shows became progressively erratic, with Berry dealing with awful backup rings and submiting sloppy, out-of-tune shows that did very much to tarnish his status with youthful and old followers as well. In 1987, he released his first reserve, Chuck Berry: The Autobiography, as well as the same season noticed the film discharge of exactly what will be his long lasting legacy, the rockumentary Hail! Hail! Rock’n’Roll, including live video footage from a 60th-birthday concert with Keith Richards as musical movie director and the most common bevy of superstars developing for guest transforms. For another three years, Berry committed himself towards the oldies circuit, frequently appearing on the Blueberry Hill cafe in his hometown of St. Louis and occasionally embarking on trips of the U.S. or European countries. In a number of interviews he guaranteed the living of a fresh record but nothing at all was made established until he announced the 2017 launch of Chuck on his 90th birthday. Berry didn’t live to find out its launch: he passed away at his house on March 18, 2017. For most of his off-stage exploits and apparently ongoing problems with regulations, Chuck Berry continues to be the epitome of rock and roll & move, and his music will endure lengthy after his personal escapades possess faded from storage. Since when it boils down to his music, probably John Lennon stated it greatest, “In the event that you had been going to provide rock and roll & move another name, you may contact it ‘Chuck Berry’.”

Quick Facts

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#	Fact
1	Is mentioned in the song "I Hear You Knocking" by Dave Edmunds.
2	He owns a warehouse full of old Cadillacs, one from every three or four model-years, all the way back to the mid-1950s, which he claims to be trying to get rid of, but says that nobody will give him a fair price, so he just stores them away.
3	Has served three jail terms--for armed robbery in 1944, for violation of the Mann Act in 1959 and for income-tax evasion in 1979. He served two years in the state penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, and was released in February 1964.
4	He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1777 North Vine Street in Hollywood.
5	He made his national television debut on November 8, 1957 on New American Bandstand 1965 (1952) performing "Rock and Roll Music" twice in a row, by demand of the teenage dancers in the studio.
6	Born to a contractor and deacon of a Baptist church and his wife, a qualified principal, he was the third of six children.
7	Performs on a Wednesday each month at Blueberry Hill, a restaurant in the Delmar Loop neighborhood in St. Louis.
8	In Stephen King's novel "Christine", many chapters open with lyric fragments from his songs.
9	Is mentioned in "Chuck Berry Fields Forever" by Gilberto Gil, "Chuck Berry" by The Toasters and "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" by Bob Seger.
10	Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (charter member) and the American Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986.
11	Inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1985 and the St. Louis Walk of Fame in 1989.
12	On June 1, 1979, President Jimmy Carter asked him to perform at the White House.
13	Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1982.
14	Whenever he performs live, he always picks a venue which is near an Indian restaurant, so he can have a meal straight after the show. When he was at the Nottingham Royal Concert Hall in the 1990s, the stage door was directly opposite the front door of the Mogul-E-Azam, so he was able to sneak out the stage door, across the alley and have his meal without traveling too far (one of the roadies on duty that night let slip about the restaurant information).
15	One of his daughters, Aloha, went to the same high school (University City Senior High School) as actor Edgar L. Davis and rapper Nelly.
16	His only #1 hit was his controversial novelty song "My Ding a Ling".
17	He was voted the 5th Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artist of all time by Rolling Stone.
18	He was arguably the most important figure in rock-n-roll in the 1950s, besides Elvis Presley. Although Presley had much more explosive record sales and greater commercial longevity, Berry was equally influential and had the satisfaction of knowing that he, unlike Presley, had written all of his own classics.
19	He worked as a janitor, carpenter and hairdresser.
20	He originally wanted to be a professional photographer and started singing and playing in a band to buy cameras and photography equipment. Some of his photographs of the famous and near-famous are hanging in galleries around the world today.
21	Received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984.
22	Received a John F. Kennedy Center Honor in 2000.
23	Father of Ingrid Berry.
24	Born at 6:59am-CST.



Soundtrack

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status	Character
Arena		TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode, 1985 writer - 1 episode, 1985
My American Cousin	1985	writer: "Sweet Little Sixteen"
Teen Wolf	1985	music: "SURFIN' U.S.A."
Back to the Future	1985	writer: "JOHNNY B. GOODE" 1955
Calamari Union	1985	"Maybelline" / arranger: "Maybelline" / lyrics: "Maybelline" / performer: "Maybelline" / writer: "Maybelline"
Mischief	1985	performer: "Sweet Little Sixteen", "School Days" / writer: "Sweet Little Sixteen", "School Days"
The Making of 'Back to the Future'	1985	TV Short documentary writer: "JOHNNY B. GOODE"
Threads	1984	TV Movie performer: "Johnny B. Goode" / writer: "Johnny B. Goode"
Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers	1984	writer: "NADINE"
Top Secret!	1984	"SKEET SURFING"
Surf II	1984	writer: "Surfin' U.S.A."
Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style	1983	Video documentary performer: "Maybellene" - uncredited / writer: "Maybellene" - uncredited
Alvin & the Chipmunks	1983	TV Series writer: "Surfin' U.S.A."
Porky's II: The Next Day	1983	performer: "School Days" / writer: "School Days"
Superman III	1983	writer: "Roll Over Beethoven" - uncredited
St. Elsewhere	1983	TV Series 1 episode
Roman Za'ir	1983	performer: "Sweet Little Sixteen" / writer: "Sweet Little Sixteen"
Class Reunion	1982	performer: "It Wasn't Me", "My Dingaling", "Festival" / writer: "It Wasn't Me", "My Dingaling", "Festival"
Things Are Tough All Over	1982	performer: "Johnny B. Goode" / writer: "Johnny B. Goode"
Diner	1982	performer: "Merry Christmas Baby", "Run Rudolph Run"
Missing	1982	performer: "MY DING A LING" 1952 / writer: "MY DING A LING" 1952
Porky's	1981	performer: "Maybelline" / writer: "Maybelline"
Gas	1981	"Back in the USA"
Shifshuf Naim	1981	performer: "Johnny B. Goode" / writer: "Johnny B. Goode"
This Is Elvis	1981	"Too Much Monkey Business", "The Promised Land"
Wicked Schoolgirls	1980	performer: "Hail, Hail Rock & Roll", "Sweet Little Sixteen" - uncredited / writer: "Hail, Hail Rock & Roll", "Sweet Little Sixteen" - uncredited
The Hollywood Knights	1980	music: "Surfing U.S.A."
Pink Lady	1980	TV Series writer - 1 episode
WKRP in Cincinnati		TV Series writer - 3 episodes, 1978 - 1979 performer - 2 episodes, 1979
Birth of the Beatles	1979	writer: "Johnny B. Goode", "Rock and Roll Music"
Rock 'n' Roll High School	1979	performer: "School Day Ring! Ring! Goes The Bell" / writer: "School Day Ring! Ring! Goes The Bell"
Electric Light Orchestra: 'Out of the Blue' Tour Live at Wembley	1978	TV Movie writer: "Roll Over Beethoven"
Happy Days	1978	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash	1978	TV Movie writer: "Blue Suede Schubert"
American Hot Wax	1978	performer: "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Reelin' and Rockin'" uncredited, "Roll Over Beethoven" uncredited / writer: "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Reelin' and Rockin'" uncredited, "Roll Over Beethoven" uncredited
Top of the Pops	1977	TV Series writer - 3 episodes
Saturday Night Live	1977	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Dolly	1976	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Return to Macon County	1975	performer: "Johnny B. Goode"
Reflections of Youth	1975	performer: "School Days" - uncredited / writer: "School Days" - uncredited
The Ernie Sigley Show	1974-1975	TV Series writer - 3 episodes
In Concert	1975	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Fun Buns Contest	1975	writer: "Little Queenie" - uncredited
Rock Concert	1974	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Alice in the Cities	1974	performer: "Memphis Tennesse" / writer: "Memphis Tennesse"
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones	1973	Documentary writer: "Bye Bye Johnny"
The Midnight Special		TV Series performer - 2 episodes, 1973 writer - 2 episodes, 1973
Die Otto Show	1973	TV Movie writer: "Johnny-Be-Goode"
Jimi Hendrix	1973	Documentary writer: "Johnny B. Goode"
Heavy Traffic	1973	performer: "Maybelline" / writer: "Maybelline"
American Graffiti	1973	writer: "Almost Grown", "Johnnie B. Goode"
Let the Good Times Roll	1973	Documentary performer: "School Days" / writer: "School Days"
The Graham Kennedy Show	1973	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii	1973	TV Special documentary writer: "Johnny B. Goode"
The Swing Thing	1972	performer: "My Ding-a-Ling" - uncredited / writer: "My Ding-a-Ling" - uncredited
The Two Ronnies	1972	TV Series writer - 1 episode
One Pair of Eyes	1972	TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Jimi Plays Berkeley	1971	Documentary writer: "Johnny B. Goode"
Two-Lane Blacktop	1971	writer: "Maybelline / No Money Down"
The Johnny Cash Show	1970	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Music Scene		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 1969 writer - 1 episode, 1969
Mondo Trasho	1969	performer: "No Particular Place to Go" / writer: "No Particular Place to Go"
48 Stunden bis Acapulco	1967	writer: "The Promised Land"
New American Bandstand 1965	1966	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Shivaree	1966	TV Series music - 1 episode
The Beatles	1966	TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Shindig!		TV Series writer - 22 episodes, 1964 - 1966 performer - 1 episode, 1965
Hollywood a Go Go		TV Series writer - 14 episodes, 1965 - 1966 performer - 2 episodes, 1965
Dave's Place	1965	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The T.A.M.I. Show	1964	Documentary performer: "Nadine", "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene" / writer: "Nadine", "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", "Around and Around", "Surfin' U.S.A."
Get Yourself a College Girl	1964	writer: "Around and Around"
The Ed Sullivan Show	1964	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Dick Clark Show		TV Series writer - 3 episodes, 1958 - 1959 performer - 2 episodes, 1958 - 1959
Go, Johnny, Go!	1959	performer: "LITTLE QUEENIE", "MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE", "JOHNNY B. GOODE"
Mister Rock and Roll	1957	performer: "Baby Doll" / writer: "Baby Doll"
Rock Rock Rock!	1956	performer: "You Can't Catch Me" / writer: "You Can't Catch Me"
The Big Bang Theory		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2016 writer - 1 episode, 2016
Strictly Come Dancing		TV Series writer - 3 episodes, 2014 - 2016 performer - 1 episode, 2016
Molly	2016	TV Mini-Series writer - 1 episode
Vinyl		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2016 writer - 1 episode, 2016
Love Records: Anna mulle Lovee	2016	writer: "Fiilaten ja höyläten Reeling And Rocking"
A Christmas Melody	2015	TV Movie performer: "Run, Rudolph, Run"
You, Me and the Apocalypse	2015	TV Series music - 1 episode
Tu cara me suena - Argentina	2015	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Scream: The TV Series	2015	TV Series 1 episode
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC	2015	TV Movie performer: "Roll Over Beethoven" / writer: "Roll Over Beethoven", "No Particular Place To Go"
Whatever Happened to Rock 'n' Roll?	2015	TV Movie performer: "You Can't Catch Me" - uncredited / writer: "You Can't Catch Me" - uncredited
Doctors		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2015 writer - 1 episode, 2015
Goedenavond, Dames en Heren		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2015 writer - 1 episode, 2015
Guitar Man	2015/I	Documentary writer: "Johnny B. Goode"
Waterloo Road	2014	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Cilla	2014	TV Mini-Series writer - 1 episode
Love & Mercy	2014	writer: "Surfin' U.S.A."
The Sixties		TV Mini-Series documentary performer - 1 episode, 2014 writer - 1 episode, 2014
Ukulele Mania	2014	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell	2014	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Dancing on Ice		TV Series music - 1 episode, 2014 performer - 1 episode, 2010 writer - 1 episode, 2010
Buba Shel Medina	2013	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Lenin Tatatino	2013	Short performer: "School Days" / writer: "School Days"
Drift	2013/II	performer: "Johnny B. Goode" / writer: "Johnny B. Goode"
The Voice UK	2013	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Glen Campbell: The Rhinestone Cowboy	2013	TV Movie documentary music: "Surfin' USA" - uncredited
Gila!	2012	TV Movie lyrics: "Almost Grown" / music: "Almost Grown" / performer: "Almost Grown"
The X Factor Philippines	2012	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Dancing with the Stars	2009-2012	TV Series writer - 2 episodes
No me la puc treure del cap	2012	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Dukes of September Live at Lincoln Center	2012	TV Movie documentary writer: "You Never Can Tell"
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	2011	TV Series writer - 1 episode
New Girl	2011	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Late Show with David Letterman	2011	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Surfin' Bulldog	2011	Video short music: "Surfin' U.S.A." - uncredited
The Roaring 20s: Mick Jagger's Glory Years	2011	Video documentary writer: "Around and Around", "Come On"
Ruisrock - 40 vuotta rockia ja rakkautta	2011	TV Movie documentary performer: "Roll Over Beethoven" / writer: "Roll Over Beethoven"
Gerry	2011	writer: "Chu un rocker Reelin' and Rocking"
Dancing Stars	2011	TV Series writer - 2 episodes
The Marty Stuart Show	2011	TV Series writer - 3 episodes
Todd's Pop Song Reviews	2011	TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop	2011	Documentary writer: "Forty Days", "Too Much Monkey Business"
Rock Suomi	2010	TV Series documentary writer - 2 episodes
Mafia II	2010	Video Game performer: "NADINE", "NO PARTICULAR PLACE TO GO" / writer: "NADINE", "NO PARTICULAR PLACE TO GO"
Street Music	2010	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Endless Summer Ukulele	2010	TV Series short music - 1 episode
20 to 1	2010	TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Legends	2010	TV Series documentary music - 1 episode
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Feelin' Alright	2009	Video performer: "Roll Over Beethoven", "Johnny B. Goode" / writer: "Roll Over Beethoven", "Sweet Little Rock and Roller', "Johnny B. Goode"
Welcome to the 80's	2009	TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
The Queens of Country	2009	Video writer: "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
Blood: The Last Vampire	2009	performer: "You Never Can Tell" / writer: "You Never Can Tell"
Cadillac Records	2008	writer: "Maybellene", "Nadine Is It You?", "No Particular Place to Go", "Promised Land", "Surfin USA"
So You Think You Can Dance Canada		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2008 writer - 1 episode, 2008
De wereld draait door	2008	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Vito Power	2008	Short writer: "Back in the U.S.A." - uncredited
Ganes	2007	"JOHNNY B. GOODE"
The 4400		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2007 writer - 1 episode, 2007
It Takes Two	2007	TV Series writer - 1 episode
La tele de tu vida	2007	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Yhden tähden hotelli	2007	Documentary writer: "Memphis Tennessee"
Dolly Parton & Friends	2007	Video writer: "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
Midsomer Murders	2007	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Chapter 27	2007	performer: "Run Rudolph Run"
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten	2007	Documentary writer: "Carol"
Unaccompanied Minors	2006	writer: "All Aboard"
Arthur and the Invisibles	2006	performer: "You Never Can Tell" / writer: "You Never Can Tell"
Elvis Presley: Love Me Tender	2006	Video writer: "Johnny B. Goode"
Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland	2006	Documentary performer: "Promised Land" / writer: "Promised Land"
Aloha from Sweden	2006	Video writer: "Johnny B. Goode"
The Sopranos		TV Series writer - 2 episodes, 2002 - 2006 performer - 1 episode, 2006
Camping	2006	performer: "Roll over Beethoven" / writer: "Roll over Beethoven"
The Valet	2006	performer: "No particular place to go" 1964 / writer: "No particular place to go" 1964
Cars	2006	performer: "Route 66"
The Shaggy Dog	2006	writer: "Surfin' USA" 1963
Kupetzky	2006	TV Series writer - 1 episode
A Família Caipira na Delegacia Maluca	2006	Video short writer: "Johnny B. Goode"
The X Factor	2005	TV Series writer - 2 episodes
The Wendell Baker Story	2005	writer: "Promised Land"
Gilmore Girls		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2005 writer - 1 episode, 2005
Singapore Idol	2004	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Dag och natt	2004	performer: "No Particular Place to Go" / writer: "No Particular Place to Go"
SuperStar KZ	2004	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Beach Boys Good Timin'	2003	Video writer: "School Days", "Rock & Roll Music", "Surfin's U.S.A."
Elvis Presley: The Back Story, Vol. 1	2003	Video documentary writer: "Maybelline"
The Blues		TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode, 2003 writer - 1 episode, 2003
Monsieur Ibrahim	2003	writer: "Sweet Little Sixteen"
Soundstage	2003	TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Idol	2003	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Jos sais kerran	2002	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Santa Clause 2	2002	performer: "Run Rudolph Run"
Art That Shook the World	2002	TV Series documentary music - 1 episode
Snow Dogs	2002	performer: "No Particular Place To Go" / writer: "No Particular Place To Go"
Hearts in Atlantis	2001	performer: "Carol" 1958 / writer: "Carol" 1958
Elvis: The Missing Years	2001	Video documentary writer: "Maybellene"
The Shaft	2001	performer: "Come On"
Cast Away	2000	performer: "Run Rudolph Run"
Badding	2000	writer: "Fiilaten ja höyläten" Reelin' and Rockin - as Berry
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970)	2000	TV Movie documentary performer: "You Can't Catch Me", "Johnny B. Goode" / writer: "You Can't Catch Me", "Johnny B. Goode"
Le secret	2000	"You Never Can Tell" / performer: "You Never Can Tell"
The Beach Boys: An American Family	2000	TV Mini-Series writer: "SURFIN' USA"
Lakeuden kutsu	2000	writer: "Jället takaasip Pohojammaalle Back In The USA"
38 Special: Live at Sturgis	1999	Video documentary writer: "Back In The U.S.A."
Paul McCartney: Live at the Cavern Club	1999	TV Special writer: "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" - uncredited
Limbo	1999	writer: "You Never Can Tell" a/k/a "C'est La Vie"
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy	1998	Video documentary performer: "Rock and Roll Music" - uncredited / writer: "Rock and Roll Music" - uncredited
The Beach Boys: The Lost Concert	1998	Documentary music: "Surfin' USA" - uncredited
Rush Hour	1998	writer: "Surfin' USA"
Pistvakt - en vintersaga	1998	TV Series lyrics - 1 episode
Tohuwabohu		TV Series writer - 3 episodes, 1994 - 1997 music - 1 episode, 1998
Home Alone 3	1997	performer: "Almost Grown", "School Day Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell" / writer: "Almost Grown", "School Day Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell"
Telling Lies in America	1997	performer: "Almost Grown" / writer: "Almost Grown"
Men in Black	1997	writer: "The Promised Land"
Mystery Science Theater 3000	1989-1997	TV Series writer - 4 episodes
Zeus and Roxanne	1997	writer: "YOU NEVER CAN TELL" a/k/a "C'EST LA VIE"
El amor perjudica seriamente la salud	1996	writer: "Rock 'n' Roll Music"
Jingle All the Way	1996	performer: "Run Rudolph Run"
The Last Days of Frankie the Fly	1996	performer: "NO PARTICULAR PLACE TO GO" / writer: "NO PARTICULAR PLACE TO GO"
De Zeemeerman	1996	writer: "Johnny B. Goode", "School Day Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell, "Roll Over Beethoven", "Memphis Tennessee"
Spy Hard	1996	performer: "You Never Can Tell C'est la vie" / writer: "You Never Can Tell C'est la vie"
Sgt. Bilko	1996	performer: "No Particular Place To Go" / writer: "No Particular Place To Go"
The Beatles Anthology	1995	TV Mini-Series documentary writer: "Roll Over Beethoven", "Rock and Roll Music"
One Foot in the Grave		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 1995 writer - 1 episode, 1995
Bert	1994	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Baseball		TV Mini-Series documentary performer - 2 episodes, 1994 writer - 2 episodes, 1994
Pulp Fiction	1994	performer: "You Never Can Tell" / writer: "You Never Can Tell"
Backbeat	1994	writer: "Carol", "Rock and Roll Music"
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music	1993	Documentary performer: "Sweet Little Sixteen" / writer: "Sweet Little Sixteen"
Beethoven's 2nd	1993	writer: "Roll Over Beethoven"
The Innocent	1993	lyrics: "MAYBELLENE" / music: "MAYBELLENE" / performer: "MAYBELLENE"
Married with Children		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 1993 writer - 1 episode, 1993
Prime Suspect 2	1992	TV Mini-Series writer - 1 episode
Beethoven	1992	writer: "Roll Over Beethoven"
Brides of Christ	1991	TV Mini-Series performer: "Memphis Tennessee" / writer: "Memphis Tennessee"
Home Alone	1990	performer: "Run Rudolph Run"
Book of Love	1990	performer: "School Days" / writer: "School Days"
My Blue Heaven	1990/I	writer: "Sufin' USA"
Downtown	1990	writer: "SURFIN' U.S.A."
Back to the Future Part II	1989	writer: "Johnny B. Goode" - uncredited
Back to the Future Part II Behind-the-Scenes Special Presentation	1989	TV Movie documentary writer: "JOHNNY B. GOODE"
Who Shot Patakango?	1989	performer: "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" / writer: "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
Young Einstein	1988	writer: "ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC"
Redeye Express	1988	TV Movie performer: "Let It Rock" / writer: "Let It Rock"
High Hopes	1988	writer: "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man" - uncredited
Johnny Be Good	1988	performer: "Johnny B. Goode" / writer: "Johnny B. Goode"
Love Potion	1987	performer: "REELIN' & ROCKIN'" / writer: "REELIN' & ROCKIN'"
My Best Friend's Birthday	1987	performer: "Nadine" / writer: "Nadine"
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam	1987	TV Movie documentary writer: "BACK IN THE USA"
Man on Fire	1987	lyrics: "Johnny B. Goode" / music: "Johnny B. Goode"
High Tide	1987	writer: "Johnny B Goode", "Memphis, Tennessee"
Rock Odyssey	1987	writer: "Roll Over Beethoven"
Concrete Angels	1987	performer: "Johnny B. Goode" / writer: "Johnny B. Goode"
La Bamba	1987	lyrics: "Betty Jean" - as E. Anderson / music: "Betty Jean" - as E. Anderson / performer: "Betty Jean"
Rags to Riches		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 1987 writer - 1 episode, 1987
Meatballs III: Summer Job	1986	writer: "School Days", "40 Days"
Elvis Gratton: Le king des kings	1985	writer: "Memphis Tennessee"

Music Department

Music Department

Title	Year	Status	Character
America's Toughest Assignment: Solving the Education Crisis	1990	TV Movie documentary composer: theme music
Rod Stewart: Tonight He's Yours	1981	TV Movie documentary composer: song "Sweet Little Rock 'n' Roller"
Domingo salvaje	1967	composer: song "Memphis"

Actor

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
This Could Be the Night	1957		Guitarist at Waxie's Club (uncredited)

Composer

Composer

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Golden Bowl, or Repression	1988	Short

Producer

Producer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll	1987	Documentary producer

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Question of God: Sigmund Freud & C.S. Lewis	2004	TV Movie documentary promotion

Self

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Beatles: The Lost Concert	2012	Documentary	Himself
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Feelin' Alright	2009	Video	Himself
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	2002-2008	TV Series	Himself
Die goldene Kamera 2008	2008		Himself
Impact: Songs That Changed the World	2007	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s	2002	TV Movie documentary	Himself (uncredited)
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts	2000	TV Special documentary	Himself - Honoree
Christmas in Washington	2000	TV Special	Himself / Performer
VH-1 Where Are They Now?	2000	TV Series documentary	Himself
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970)	2000	TV Movie documentary	Himself (uncredited)
Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music	1998	Video documentary
Late Show with David Letterman	1994-1997	TV Series	Himself
The History of Rock 'n' Roll	1995	TV Series documentary	Himself
Rock & Roll	1995	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame	1994	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Honoree
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music	1993	Documentary	Himself - Performer
Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll	1991	TV Series documentary	Himself
Redeye Express	1988	TV Movie	Himself
Aspel & Company	1988	TV Series	Himself
Kippevel	1988	TV Series	Himself
Fantastico 8	1987	TV Series	Himself
Hour Magazine	1987	TV Series	Himself
Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll	1987	Documentary	Himself
Chuck Berry & Bo Diddley's Rock 'n' Roll All Star Jam	1985	Video documentary	Himself
That Was Rock	1984	Video	Himself - Host
The 26th Annual Grammy Awards	1984	TV Special	Himself
Super Night of Rock 'n' Roll	1984	TV Movie	Himself
Chuck Berry: Live at the Roxy with Tina Turner	1982	TV Movie	Himself
Class Reunion	1982		Himself
When the Music's Over	1982	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The John Davidson Show	1980-1981	TV Series	Himself
The 38th Annual Golden Globe Awards	1981	TV Special	Himself
The 8th Annual American Music Awards	1981	TV Special	Himself
A Tribute to the Jukebox Award Winners	1980	TV Movie	Himself
Solid Gold	1980	TV Series	Himself
The Wolfman Jack Radio Show	1980	TV Movie	Himself
The 6th Annual American Music Awards	1979	TV Special	Himself
The Mike Douglas Show	1971-1978	TV Series	Himself - Vocalist
American Hot Wax	1978		Himself
The 5th Annual American Music Awards	1978	TV Special	Himself
Rock Concert	1975-1977	TV Series	Himself
All You Need Is Love	1977	TV Series documentary	Himself
American Bandstand's 25th Anniversary	1977	TV Special	Himself
Saturday Night Live	1977	TV Series	Himself - Musical Guest
Donny and Marie	1977	TV Series	Himself
Sha Na Na	1977	TV Series	Himself
Dinah!	1974-1976	TV Series	Himself
20 Years of Rock & Roll	1975	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Sammy and Company	1975	TV Series	Himself
In Concert	1972-1974	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Host
Alice in the Cities	1974		Himself (uncredited)
The 16th Annual Grammy Awards	1974	TV Special	Himself
American Music Awards	1974	TV Special	Himself
The London Rock and Roll Show	1973	Documentary	Himself
The Midnight Special	1973	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Host
Soul Train	1973	TV Series documentary	Guest (archival clips) / Himself
The Helen Reddy Show	1973	TV Series	Himself
Let the Good Times Roll	1973	Documentary	Himself
Top of the Pops	1972	TV Series	Himself
Musikladen	1972	TV Series	Himself
In Concert	1972	TV Series	Himself
Beat-Club	1972	TV Series
John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band: Sweet Toronto	1971	Video documentary	Himself
New American Bandstand 1965	1957-1971	TV Series	Himself
The David Frost Show	1970	TV Series	Himself
Keep on 'Rockin	1969	Short documentary	Himself
Music Scene	1969	TV Series	Himself - Musical Guest
Hollywood a Go Go	1965	TV Series	Himself - Singer / Guitarist
Hullabaloo	1965	TV Series	Himself
Shindig!	1965	TV Series	Himself - Singer
Gadzooks! It's All Happening	1965	TV Series	Himself
The T.A.M.I. Show	1964	Documentary	Himself
The Dick Clark Show	1958-1960	TV Series	Himself
Jazz on a Summer's Day	1959	Documentary	Himself
Go, Johnny, Go!	1959		Himself
The Guy Mitchell Show	1957	TV Series	Himself
Mister Rock and Roll	1957		Himself
Rock Rock Rock!	1956		Himself

Archive Footage

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC	2015	TV Movie	Himself
Whatever Happened to Rock 'n' Roll?	2015	TV Movie	Himself (uncredited)
My Music: 50s & 60s Rock Rewind	2014	TV Movie	Himself
The Joy of the Guitar Riff	2014	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Sixties	2014	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
American Masters	2013	TV Series documentary	Himself
Elvis Found Alive	2012		Himself
Bert Stern: Original Madman	2011	Documentary
Ruisrock - 40 vuotta rockia ja rakkautta	2011	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Michael Jackson	2009	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Comedy Songs: The Pop Years	2008	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Mike Douglas: Moments & Memories	2008	Video	Himself
Keith Richards: Under Review	2007	Video documentary	Himself
Trailers from Hell	2007	TV Series	Himself
B InTune TV	2006	TV Series	Guest star
1955, Seven Days of Fall	2005	Documentary	Himself
Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker	2005	Documentary
Impact: Songs That Changed the World	2003	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
The Definitive Elvis: The Army Years	2002	Video documentary	Himself
Blues Odyssey	2001	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Pop 2000: 50 Jahre Popmusik und Jugendkultur in Deutschland	1999	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
The Fifties	1997	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Rock 'n' Roll History Video: Fabulous Fifties	1989	Video short documentary
Rockfogyatkozás	1988	Documentary	Himself
Arena	1985	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Rock 'n' Roll Years	1985	TV Series	Himself
Rock and Roll: The Early Days	1984	Video documentary	Himself
Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style	1983	Video documentary	Himself
The Compleat Beatles	1982	Video documentary	Himself (uncredited)
Shadows and Light	1980	Video documentary	Himself
Heroes of Rock and Roll	1979	TV Movie documentary	Himself

Won awards

Won awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
2008	Golden Camera for Lifetime Achievement	Golden Camera, Germany	Music International
1988	Berlinale Camera	Berlin International Film Festival
1988	Jackie Coogan Award	Young Artist Awards		For outstanding contribution to youth through entertainment.
1987	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Recording	Awarded on October 8, 1987 at 1777 N. Vine Street



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#	Quote
1	I would sing the blues if I had the blues.
2	It amazes me when I hear people say "I want to go out and find out who I am.". I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me.
3	I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time and that's why I do not like him.
4	People don't want to see seventeen pieces in neckties. They wanna see some jeans, some gettin' down and some wigglin'.



#	Trademark
1	Dynamic blues based guitar riffs
2	The "Johnny B. Goode" riff
3	Gibson ES-335
4	Gibson guitars
5	Duckwalk



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