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Chuck Berry earned the nickname by refining rhythm and blues into the core elements that defined rock and roll: guitar-driven riffs, lyrics aimed at teenage life and consumerism, and showmanship including his signature duck walk. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame cited him for having 'laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance' when he was inducted in 1986.
Chuck Berry's first major hit was 'Maybellene,' recorded on the 21st of May 1955, at Chess Records in Chicago. It was an adaptation of a country song called 'Ida Red' and was suggested by Leonard Chess rather than by Berry himself. The record sold over a million copies and reached number one on Billboard's rhythm and blues chart.
'Johnny B. Goode' is the only rock-and-roll song included on the Voyager Golden Record, launched into interstellar space in 1977. Rolling Stone ranked 'Johnny B. Goode' number 7 on its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list in 2004 and number one on its 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time list in 2008.
Chuck Berry was imprisoned three times. First, he was held at the Intermediate Reformatory for Young Men from 1944 to 1947 after a conviction for armed robbery. Second, he served one and one-half years from February 1962 to October 1963 under the Mann Act for transporting a minor across state lines. Third, he received a 120-day sentence in 1979 after pleading guilty to evading nearly $110,000 in federal income taxes.
Chuck Berry announced his final album, titled Chuck, on his 90th birthday. It was his first new studio album in 38 years, since Rockit in 1979, and was released in 2017, the year he died on March 18. The album features his children Charles Berry Jr. and Ingrid on guitar and harmonica and was dedicated to his wife Toddy.
Chuck Berry is interred in a mausoleum at Bellerive Gardens Cemetery in St. Louis. He was buried with a cherry-red Gibson ES-355 guitar bolted to the inside lid of his coffin, the same model he favored throughout his career. His funeral was held on the 9th of April 2017, at The Pageant in St. Louis.