- Chuck Berry Trivia: Born on October 18, 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri, His birth name was Charles Edward Anderson Berry.
- Chuck Berry Trivia: While still a high school student he was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947.
- Chuck Berry Trivia: Johnnie Johnson, a pianist, wrote songs on piano, while Berry converted them to guitar and wrote lyrics. They collaborated on many songs, including...
- ... ‘Maybellene’ and ‘Roll Over Beethoven’. Berry joined Johnnie’s group, The Sir John Trio, in 1953 as lead singer.
- Chuck Berry Trivia: He joined Chess Records in 1955. His first hit for Chess was "Maybellene", his adpatation of the country song "Ida Red".
- Chuck Berry Trivia: "Maybellene" sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues chart.
- Chuck Berry Trivia: During his career he`s had only 14 top 40 hits. The Beatles, 52, Elvis 114.
- Chuck Berry Trivia: 17 years into his career, Chuck's first #1 hit was My Ding-A-Ling. Johnny B. Goode only made it to #8.
- Chuck Berry Trivia: Berry`s onstage trademark is the duckwalk. At age 75 he was still doing it!
- Chuck Berry Trivia: Keith Richards inducted Berry into the R&R Hall of Fame, saying "I lifted every lick he ever played."
- Chuck Berry Trivia: Unlike the Beatles, Led Zeppelin never covered a Chuck Berry song. Chuck doesn`t care.
- Chuck Berry Trivia: The song Johnny B. Goode was written for and about Johnnie Johnson, Chuck's long-time piano player.
- Chuck Berry Trivia: The Beach Boys` first hit was Surfin USA. Berry sued them for infringing on Sweet Little Sixteen, and won.
- Chuck Berry Trivia: In 1959 Berry invited a 14-year-old Apache waitress, Janice Escalanti, to work at his nightclub. crossing the border he was arrested on a prostitution charge...”
- ... receiving three years in a Federal Prison. When interviewed years later he said: “She was anything but innocent.”
- Chuck Berry Trivia: In 1979 he served 120 days in prison for tax evasion.
- Chuck Berry Trivia: He appeared in two early rock-and-roll movies: Rock Rock Rock (1956), in which he sang "You Can't Catch Me",...
- ... and Go, Johnny, Go! (1959), in which he had a speaking role as himself and performed "Johnny B. Goode", "Memphis, Tennessee", and "Little Queenie".
- Chuck Berry Trivia: Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986. He was cited for having "laid the groundwork for ...... rock and roll.
- Chuck Berry Trivia: Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" is the only rock-and-roll song included on the (Space Ship) Voyager 's Golden Record. What will those Little Green Men think?
- Chuck Berry Trivia: John Lennon said of him, "if you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."
