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Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music. 
Born into a middle-class family in St. Louis, Missouri, Berry 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 served a prison sentence for armed robbery between 1944 and 1947. On 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 blues player T-Bone Walker, he was performing in the evenings with the Johnnie Johnson Trio. His 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 No. 1 on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues chart. By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star with several hit records and film appearances to his name as well as a lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St. Louis-based nightclub, called Berry's Club Bandstand. But in January 1962, Berry was sentenced to three years in prison for offenses under the Mann Act — he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines. 
After his release in 1963, Berry had several more hits, including "No Particular Place to Go," "You Never Can Tell," and "Nadine," but these did not achieve the same success, or lasting impact, of his 1950s songs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgic live performer, playing his past hits with local backup bands of variable quality. His insistence on being paid in cash led to a jail sentence in 1979 — four months and community service for tax evasion.
Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986, with the comment that he "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance." Berry is included in several Rolling Stone "Greatest of All Time" lists, including being ranked fifth on their 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll included three of Chuck Berry's songs: "Johnny B. Goode," "Maybellene," and "Rock and Roll Music." Today, at the age of 86, Berry continues to play live.

Track Listing Disc One:
01. Johnny B. Goode
02. Maybellene
03. Little Queenie
04. School Days (Ring, Ring Goes the Bell)
05. Carol
06. Too Much Monkey Business
07. No Money Down
08. Come On
09. Guitar Boogie
10. Stop And Listen
11. Together (We'll Always Be)
12. Run Around
13. Confessin' The Blues
14. You Can't Catch Me
15. The Way It Was Before
16. It Don't Take But A Few Minutes
17. Worried Life Blues
18. I Got To Find My Baby
19. Away From You
20. I'm Talking About You
21. Thirty Days
22. Vacation Time
23. Our Little Rendezvous
24. Jaguar And Thunderbird
25. Too Pooped To Pop

Track Listing Disc Two:
01. Memphis, Tennessee
02. Sweet Little Sixteen
03. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
04. Let It Rock
05. Beautiful Delilah
06. Thirteen Question Method
07. Almost Grown
08. Driftin' Blues
09. Mad Lad
10. Blues For Hawaiians
11. Down The Road A Piece
12. Blue Feeling
13. Don't Lie To Me
14. Low Feeling
15. Broken Arrow
16. Diploma For Two
17. Roly Poly
18. How You've Changed
19. Deep Feeling
20. Childhood Sweetheart
21. Little Star
22. That's My Desire
23. Rip It Up
24. Reelin' And Rockin'

Track Listing Disc Three:
01. Back In The U.S.A.
02. Roll Over Beethoven
03. Sweet Little Rock And Roller
04. Rock And Roll Music
05. Bye Bye Johnny
06. Downbound Train
07. Route 66
08. Around And Around
09. Sweet Sixteen
10. Rockin' At The Philharmonic
11. Havana Moon
12. Go Go Go
13. Berry Pickin'
14. Oh Baby Doll
15. Drifting Heart
16. In-Go
17. Betty Jean
18. Hey Pedro
19. Anthony Boy
20. La Jaunda
21. Jo Jo Gunne
22. Wee Wee Hours
23. Merry Christmas Baby
24. Run Rudolph Run

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 3xCD
Genre: Rock N Roll, Classic Rock, Blues
Format: MP3 @ 320kbit
CD Release Year: 2012
Speelduur: 185 minuten
Cover: Artwork is in de RARs verwerkt