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Johnny B. Goode

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

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