The 1950s saw rock music explode on a global scale. The genre was just starting to take shape, and artists were figuring out where they fit in those confines. While many simply followed the leader, ...

The former home of rock n’ roll pioneer and St. Louis native Chuck Berry has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The house is at 3137 Whittier Street in the city’s Ville ...

“He never left St. Louis,” Chuck Berry’s dear friend and confidant Joe Edwards said of the father of rock & roll, who died in his St. Louis-area home on Saturday, March 18, 2017, at the age of 90.

In Chuck Berry’s 1956 record “You Can’t Catch Me,” it’s a rainy late night on the New Jersey Turnpike. A hot rod roars by the driver-singer’s dream machine, and the race is on. Just as he surges ahead ...

Chuck Berry’s “Rock and Roll Music” was one of the most essential songs of the 1950s. Subsequently, a cover of “Rock and Roll Music” became one of The Beach Boys‘ more popular songs. Subsequently, ...

Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll's founding guitar hero and storyteller who defined the music's joy and rebellion in such classics as "Johnny B. Goode," ''Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll Over Beethoven," ...

(Reuters) - Chuck Berry, who duck-walked his way into the pantheon of rock 'n' roll pioneers as one of its most influential guitarists and lyricists, creating raucous anthems that defined the genre's ...

A statue of the father of rock 'n' roll now stands across the street from the small club where Chuck Berry still performs. A statue of the father of rock 'n' roll now stands across the street from the ...

Chuck Berry will forever be synonymous with rock and roll. The St. Louis-born icon helped shape the genre into its form in the late-1950s and 1960s, and in history books of the genre is likely to ...