Chuck Berry - One Dozen Berrys (1958)

haha wat een muziek, pure rock&roll toen men nog nooit van drugs of sex gehoord had. De swingende ritme en de mooie stem van chuck is nog door niemand overtroffen en dat zal ook nooit gebeuren. 5*

Briljant, hoe anders had de muziekwereld er nu uitgezien als deze man niet had bestaan. Een quote van Allmusic verwoord het nog het best: 'Of all the early breakthrough rock & roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers. Quite simply, without him, there would be no Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, nor a myriad others. There would be no standard "Chuck Berry guitar intro," the instrument's clarion call to get the joint rockin' in any setting. The clippety-clop rhythms of rockabilly would not have been mainstreamed into the now standard 4/4 rock & roll beat. There would be no obsessive wordplay by modern-day tunesmiths; in fact, the whole history (and artistic level) of rock & roll songwriting would have been much poorer without him.'

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