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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