Chuck Berry: 10/18/1926 – 3/18/2017. If you have picked up a guitar since 1955, whether you are aware of it or not, you were influenced by this man. When someone wants to know what rock & roll sounds like, just play this for them. Part of rock & roll’s definition is Chuck Berry, and part of Chuck Berry‘s definition is rock & roll. Music will miss you, Chuck. Maybe in 100 years, you’ll be rolling over in your grave, digging some new sort of rhythm and blues the way Beethoven did. –Landman
