Chuck Berry was the musician who most influenced the new breed of young emerging from the sixties. His first hit was "Maybellene" in 1955, a piece that is listed as the first successful song Rock and Roll.
The Beatles came to versioning and popularize the songs "Roll Over Beethoven," "Rock And Roll Music" and "Too Much Monkey Business". The Rolling Stones versionaron "Come On" in 1963, then of "Around and Around", "Carol" and "Little Queenie".
Bands like The Doors, Iron Maiden, Elton John, Elvis Presley, the Sex Pistols and Bruce Sprinsteen are some who also paid tribute to the legend of Rock.
The Yarbids with Eric Clapton versionaron "Too Much Monkey Business". Nina Simone played "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" and Jimmy Hendrix "Johnny B. Goode".
The hard rock was also strongly influenced by the guitar riff and the sound of Berry. The Australian band AC / DC album "TNT" covered the song "School Days" in 1957 and was later versioned by the Beach Boys.
Angus Young, member of AC / DC came to recognize that the American musician was one who had most influenced him in his career, both for music and its presence on the stage with his version of "step Duck" (Duckwall ) which popularized Chuck Berry on stage.
Motorhead was another of the great bands that paid tribute to Berry. "Let it Rock" was the 1960 song selected. "Some songs just tell you something and others do not. The Chuck Berry always did. We had already heard Elvis or Little Richard, but he was the first to really tell stories." Lemmy Kilmister said in an interview.
And not only the great musicians dedicated themselves to pay homage, the film did well. Perhaps one of the most iconic scenes of the seventh art is the character Marty McFly, played by Michel J.Fox, playing the song "Johnny B. Goode" in the movie "Back to the Future" during the prom high where his parents fell in love.
Quentin Tarantino was another director who worshiped in his film "Pulp Fiction". John Travolta and Uma Thurman made one of the best dance scenes never before seen in the history of cinema, when they danced "You Never Can Tell", a song from the early sixties.
Chuck Berry received a Grammy in 1984 in recognition of his musical career and in 1986 was among the first musicians included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and roll, opened that year in Ohio, United States.
"While we can not say that someone invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry is the nearest approach from any individual to be the one who put all the essential pieces together , " said the creators of the Hall of Fame.
Until the last years of his life composing music he remained. Last year had announced the release of "Chuck" his first unreleased album recorded after 38 years and is dedicated to his wife Themetta Berry, while she thanked with the following message: "My dear, I'm getting older I worked! on this album for a long time. Now I can hang my shoes. "
