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Certain Songs #197: Chuck Berry – “Johnny B. Goode”

May 19, 2015 by Jim Connelly

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Album: Chuck Berry is on Top
Year: 1957

If “Roll Over Beethoven” was a master class in lionizing rock ‘n’ roll as music, then “Johnny B. Goode” does the same for mythologizing the people who played rock ‘n’ roll.

Or in this case, Chuck Berry himself.  

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode, Sex Pistols

Certain Songs #196: Chuck Berry – “Roll Over Beethoven”

May 18, 2015 by Jim Connelly

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Album: Chuck Berry is on Top.

Year: 1956.

Is there any sound more perfect than Chuck Berry’s guitar open to “Roll Over Beethoven?”  We are almost 60 years from when he wrote and recorded that song, and yet the immediacy of his guitar intro – and that solo!! – is as powerful as ever. And that’s despite the fact that approximately 5,694,875,634 other guitarists have played that lick in the intervening decades!

And the words. While Chuck Berry wrote more than a few songs extolling the rock and roll music he was the real king of, the beauty of “Roll Over Beethoven” was that it was also a “fuck you” song to older forms of music, specifically classical.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Chuck Berry, Roll Over Beethoven

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