RIP Chuck Berry

"I imagine a college classroom in 300 years, in which a hip instructor is leading a tutorial filled with students. These students relate to rock music with no more fluency than they do the music of Mesopotamia: It’s a style they’ve learned to recognize, but just barely (and only because they’ve taken this specific class). Nobody in the room can name more than two rock songs, except the professor. He explains the sonic structure of rock, its origins, the way it served as cultural currency and how it shaped and defined three generations of a global superpower. He shows the class a photo, or perhaps a hologram, of an artist who has been intentionally selected to epitomize the entire concept. For these future students, that singular image defines what rock was.

So what’s the image?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/magazine/which-rock-star-will-histor…

A very good article asserting that Chuck Berry will come to epitomize rock and roll music.

I thought he died 20 years ago

RIP Chuck

is to Chuck Berry what "A Boy Named Sue" was to Johnny Cash—a dive into novelty junk that was an embarrassing departure from otherwise consistently good output.

Deep down Louisiana close to New Orleans

Way back up in the woods among the evergreens

There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood

But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell

Go, go

Go Johhny go, go, ...

Chuck Berry's body may be dead, but his memorable music lives on.

Caused by a bad case of the boogie woogie blues.

RIP Rockstar