AP - Aug 8, 2008
A modest, one-story red-brick house that rock and roll legend Chuck Berry bought in 1950 will be considered for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Experts on St. Louis landmarks say...
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Republican candidate John McCain may have used his song in the U.S. presidential campaign, but veteran rock 'n' roller Chuck Berry has no doubt whom he wants to see in the White House next year...
More »Reuters - May 17, 2007
Rock 'n' roll pioneer Bo Diddley, hospitalized by a stroke on Sunday, was up and walking around on Thursday but still struggling to communicate, his longtime manager and friend told Reuters....
More »Reuters - May 7, 2007
This was not the sound of young America. Last year's American Idol winner, Taylor Hicks, drew an older crowd about 10 to 15 years his senior Friday night, filling only two-thirds of the Sunset Strip...
More »AP - Dec 7, 2006
The Seminole Tribe of Florida is buying the Hard Rock business, including its massive collection of rock n roll memorabilia, in a $965 million deal with British casino and hotel company Rank Group PLC...
More »Reuters - Nov 29, 2006
Moseying out onstage Wednesday at Downtown Disney s House of Blues in Anaheim, Jerry Lee Lewis looked like, well, a slow-moving senior citizen. Then he took a seat behind the piano, his fingertips ran...
More »AP - Oct 19, 2006
Bill Clinton was not among the standing-room-only crowd of fans at a Chuck Berry concert here, but the former U.S. president sent birthday greetings to the rock n roll pioneer as he celebrated his 80th...
More »AP - Oct 17, 2006
As he turns 80 Wednesday, Chuck Berry could leave the hard work of great music to younger souls, and rest comfortably as the rock `n roll legend who first made his mark in the 1950s. But Berry, the...
More »Reuters - Aug 20, 2006
When Los Lonely Boys emerged nationally in 2003, the trio s so-called Texican rock n roll show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood suggested the Garza brothers hadn t yet come to grips with their rising...
More »Reuters - Jun 14, 2006
Twenty years ago, a camera crew and some of the world s biggest rock stars ventured to St. Louis to help Chuck Berry celebrate his 60th birthday. They were lucky to survive the experience. The famously...
More »Reuters - Feb 24, 2006
The most enduring visual memory of Aerosmith s show Wednesday likely will be that of a bareback Joe Perry on his knees on a catwalk, thrashing his clear-bodied guitar with a bright red shirt. It had none...
More »Reuters - Dec 16, 2005
Here is a look at some of the notable artists who died in the past year. Swing-era clarinetist/bandleader ARTIE SHAW, 94, died December 30, 2004, in Thousand Oaks, Calif. By some accounts, Shaw sold...
More »Reuters - Nov 22, 2005
That was then and this is now, Bonnie Raitt sang at the beginning of I Will Not Be Broken, which opens her new album and was played early on Monday at the Wiltern. While the song works just fine as...
More »AP - Oct 26, 2005
Coffee giant Starbucks and Virgin Records are co-releasing a CD of rare Rolling Stones remixes, B-sides and hard-to-find live recordings, the band announced on its Web site Wednesday. Rarities: 1971...
More »E! Online - Oct 26, 2005
It seems the Rolling Stones have learned their lesson when it comes to exclusivity. The rock legends are preparing to release an album of rare tracks via a partnership between Starbucks and Virgin...
More »Reuters - Sep 25, 2005
Chuck Berry yearned for Baton Rouge, The Band headed for Lake Charles and Glen Campbell was homesick for Galveston when he cleaned his gun. Pick a place pounded by the twin hurricanes that ravaged the...
More »Reuters - May 25, 2005
Starbucks Hear Music, the record arm of the coffee retailer, is launching two projects with Concord Records, its partner in the wildly successful 2004 Ray Charles album Genius Loves Company. On July...
More »AP - Apr 22, 2005
Dozens of musicians and admirers paid their respects to rock n roll pioneer Johnnie Johnson at a late-night musical wake featuring the talents of many of those he inspired. Drummer Bob Kuban, pianist...
More »AP - Apr 14, 2005
Rock n roll legend Chuck Berry had just returned from a European tour when he learned at Chicago s O Hare Airport that his longtime friend and collaborator Johnnie Johnson was dead at age 80. Late Wednesday...
More »Reuters - Apr 13, 2005
Johnnie Johnson, the nimble pianist on Chuck Berry s 1950s and 60s classics and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honoree in his own right, died Wednesday in St. Louis of unknown causes. He was 80. Born...
More »E! Online - Apr 13, 2005
To paraphrase the old Chuck Berry tune, bye-bye, Johnnie. Johnnie Johnson, the rhythm-and-blues piano wizard whose pioneering partnership with Berry produced such indelible tracks as Roll over Beethoven...
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