Berry knew how highly he was esteemed. So much so that, starting around the mid-to-late ’60s, he would go on tour all alone, playing with whatever pickup bands were available at the time and trusting ...

Is Chuck Berry's only number one also his worst song? "My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, I want to play with my ding-a-ling." Chuck Berry had many hits, but this one, to the chagrin of some of his fans ...

During a 2010 interview with Rolling Stone, Berry discussed his ambitions. “Let me see,” he said. “I think I don’t have as long as I perhaps feel I have to be here. And I want to do something that I ...

Here are the leaders that started (almost) at the bottom. By Gary Trust Reflecting that the race to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 can sometimes be more a marathon than a sprint, 18 songs have ...

One week in the fall of 1972, two of the aging legends of '50s rock 'n' roll held down the two top spots on the Billboard Hot 100. A 46-year-old Chuck Berry -- the sly devil, the unsentimental ...