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Station

Chuck Berry

1955 to 2017 · on Rock · born 1926, died 2017

Ride this journeySee on the network

Active years

192019401960198020002020

The journey

19501955196019651970Rock1955
  1. 1955Rock · Chess Records years
  2. 1956Elvis on The Ed Sullivan Show · Landmark on the line
  3. 1964The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show · Landmark on the line
  4. 1965Dylan goes electric at Newport · Landmark on the line

1 platform, 3 moments and landmarks along the way. Lines the journey does not ride are dimmed, as they are on the map while a journey plays.

Platform

  1. Rock1955 to 1965

    Chess Records years

    "Maybellene" (1955) fused country guitar and rhythm and blues into the vocabulary every later rock guitarist learned. The Chess singles through the early 1960s are the trunk line's first great run.

    Key album: Chuck Berry Is on Top, 1959

    Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chuck Berry (opens in a new tab)

Connections

Influenced bySister Rosetta Tharpe
InfluencedThe BeatlesThe Rolling StonesThe Beach Boys

The line

Rock (Rock family)

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chuck Berry (opens in a new tab)
  2. Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski (editors), The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Fireside, 2001

Cite this page

The Metro Map of Music, ‘Chuck Berry: station’, /stations/chuck-berry.