#On this day
On October 18, 1926, an American rock musician, singer, guitarist, songwriter, one of the founders of rock and roll was born
Chuck Berry
🎧🎸🎤✌HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!! 🎂🎈
Here are some of the most striking examples of Berry's legacy — from the cover versions of his songs that overshadowed the original to the recognized classics of cinematic soundtracks.
Chuck Berry's Legacy
The Beatles played a cover of this Chuck song back in their early shows in Hamburg. And at the end of 1964, it was decided to record a studio version of the song for the record "Beatles for Sale" (on which there was room for several more covers). The lead vocals here are performed by John Lennon, whose vocals sounded much louder and more dynamic than Berry's voice. In 1976, this song was included in The Beatles' Best Things album of the same name.
An eight-minute reworking of Chakov's "Beethoven" appeared on the 1973 album ELO 2, including an intro from the legendary Fifth Symphony, which organically transformed into the original motif of "Roll Over Beethoven". Subsequently, this song became one of the business cards of E.L.O. and often became the final one at their performances.
The movie "Back to the Future" gave this song a second life. Johnny B. Goode was performed by Marty McFly and The Starlighters at the school ball on November 12, 1955. Marty called this song a classic and told the band to play along with him in a bluesy way. Neither the band nor the audience had ever heard anything like this before, and Marvin Berry (the same musician who injured his arm when saving Marty from the trunk) called his cousin Chuck, letting him listen to the song on the phone, calling it a "new sound" (a vivid example of a "time loop"). In the end, everyone present was shocked by Marty's stage behavior to such an extent that some even covered their ears.
In fact, the Johnny B. Goode song for the film was performed by Mark Campbell. The guitar solo was played by Tim May.
"It looks like you guys aren't ready for this yet. But your kids will definitely like it!" — Marty McFly.
1994 brought this song to the peak of popularity again — the reason for this was Quentin Tarantino's film "Pulp Fiction". It was to the sounds of Chuck Berry's composition, released 30 years earlier, that Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace, performed by John Travolta and Uma Thurman, danced twist at the dance competition. Tarantino said that words like "Pierre" and "Mademoiselle" gave this scene the unique charm of France in the 50s
It was Chuck Berry who introduced this element of the stage behavior of guitarists. Even as a child, he entertained his relatives with similar movements, and in 1956, at a concert in New York, he first presented the "duck walk" to the general public. As he later told Rolling Stone in an interview, he was just trying to distract the audience's attention from his rumpled silk suit. The audience liked it and Chuck continued to do it over and over again.
Chuck's most famous follower in the "duck" business is Angus Young, the lead guitarist of AC/DC.
"The people who come to listen to me are happy because they remember the best times."👑
