The Best Of Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry

When I was tiny my hero was my grandfather, Billy, a diminutive Welshman with more than a spattering of black and Arabic blood. "I'm a product of Swansea port, fach," he used to tell me. Billy's twin passions were music and vegetable growing and his hero was that whippet-lean, guitar-toting Chuck Berry. And funnily, in summer, skin darkened after days out in his allotment, Billy looked rather like him with that thin, smiling face and those eyes that twinkled irresistibly. I sure did love Billy and I sure did love the parties that Billy attended because his love of life, of music, of dancing, of good friends and a good time always infected ...  Read the complete review

Well maybe I'm over doing it a little with the title, but for me Chuck Berry is, or at least his music IS Rock 'N Roll; that is, if you wanted to give someone an idea of what Rock 'N Roll is about, then look no further than Chuck Berry and this album. I should add that this album is called 'The Best Of Chuck Berry', and that there are a lot of Chuck Berry compilations like this about, only with differing tracks, so don't be surprised if the one you have, or might get is different. Now you may not have heard of Chuck Berry (I'd be surprised, though) but you will have heard his music, I mean, if your a fan of The Beatles, then ...  Read the complete review