Chuck Berry was born into a middle-class black family in St. Louis, and had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School. 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. After his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant. By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of the blues musician T-Bone Walker, Berry began performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio.
Berry’s break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess, of Chess Records. With Chess, he recorded “Maybellene”—Berry’s adaptation of the country song “Ida Red”—which sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine’s rhythm and blues chart.
Did the Beatles meet Chuck Berry?
According to our findings, while Berry never met The Beatles while they were together in the ’60s, he first shook hands with John Lennon in 1972 before a joint performance on The Mike Douglas Show. The late rock legends hit the stage to play ‘Memphis, Tennessee’ and ‘Johnny B. Goode’.
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