Johnny B. Goode

Next 31st of March, it will be 49 years Chuck Berry released Johnny B. Goode, one of the most famous rock and roll songs. A song about a country boy who could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

This song is an icon of rock and roll music. It's been versioned by lot of music bands. It was even performed by Michael J. Fox in "Back to the Future" film. Even John Lennon said if you had to use another name for rock and roll, it'd have to be Chuck Berry.

C. Berry was an amateur musician. He started playing in a music band to earn extra money. His first hit was a song called Maybellene.

He has influenced a large number of musicians, and he opened the door to black musicians as he was the first black musician succeed. C. Berry has a funny kind of performance. He made famouse his duck walk, which was really funny, above all because of he is quite tall and thin. His image with his Gibson guitar has became an icon too.

Although Bill Haley and his Comets are considered who started rock and roll, because of their great hit Rock around the Clock (1955), Johnny B. Goode is considered the biggest example of early rock and roll music. It was included in the Voyager I Spacecraft cultural compilation as one of the biggest human achievements.


Bill and his Comets were innovative. They were music jugglers! They were one of the first musicians using electric guitars.

Rock and roll music, come up from American folklore (black music styles), was an incredible musical and cultural movement in late fifties and early sixties.

Another musical artists followed the rock and roll music, as Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Roy Orbison, etc. Musical sixties were starting to be born.

It's worthy of admiration people who enjoy and could earn their living playing music in that years. It wasn't like now. Nowadays, music is a world that moves huge quantities of money. It seems it has lost its essence.