Rock n’ roll was more than a new kind of music, but a new story to tell, one for kids with transistor radios in their hands and money in their pockets, beginning to raise questions their parents never ...

Chuck Berry was playing a concert in Paris once when the audience started to get out of hand. But instead of engaging the rowdy fans, security did nothing. Things went from bad to worse, and tear gas ...

The music legend, who died Saturday at 90, is recalled by the director of 1987's 'Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock n' Roll' as a difficult talent who demanded cash in a paper bag but earned the title of ...

The process by which new genres emerge from previous music forms is complex and muddy, and the boundaries between them porous. So John Lennon may have been exaggerating when he said: “If you tried to ...

Watch above as First Alert 4’s Steve Harris shows us how the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, with the help of some special ...

Chuck Berry: An American Life, by RJ Smith. Hachette. 432 pages. $32. By the time Chuck Berry had his breakout hit “Maybellene” in the summer of 1955, he was already nearly thirty years old, with ...

One of the original knocks against teen-oriented rock music in the 1950s, when the form was born, came from an earlier generation that had grown up with the sophisticated, erudite songs of composers ...

When it came to sex and drugs, rock ‘n’ roll legend Chuck Berry rang all the bells — and then some. Berry, who died of natural causes on Saturday at age 90, is widely credited with helping create rock ...

Frank Gatson Jr. is Beyoncé’s creative director, and he danced in Michael Jackson’s video for “Smooth Criminal.” He knows what era-shaking stage moves look like. But even he marvels at the wild, sexy ...

Jon Brewer’s documentary about the musical legend is far more traditional than its subject. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we ...

It's a well-known fact that Chuck Berry was buried with a Gibson ES-355 semihollow electric guitar to keep him company in the afterlife. But the story of how the guitar came to join Chuck in his ...