00:05You don't have rock and roll without Chuck Berry.
00:07He was really one of the originators of the art form.
00:10You know, there were a lot of people in the 1950s when he started doing a lot of different types
00:14of sounds.
00:15They would take a little bit of rhythm and blues, a little bit of country music, you know, a little
00:19bit of gospel.
00:20Chuck Berry took all that and found a way to really bring it together.
00:24And he was really in many ways the first true rock and roll star.
00:27I think he and Elvis Presley were the first two who kind of figured out a way to mix those
00:31things together.
00:32But what was incredible about Chuck Berry was his guitar playing was monumental.
00:37You know, he took the kind of jazz sounds of Charlie Christian and other great players,
00:41found a way to make that into something raucous and exciting for the audiences.
00:45His performances were over the top.
00:47He'd dance around.
00:48He'd do his famous duck walk.
00:50He'd get the audience in call and response with him.
00:53And he was an incredible songwriter.
00:55And I think that's something that you can see that element really has a direct line to today.
01:05John Lennon famously said, right, if you look up the beginning of rock and roll, it's Chuck Berry, right?
01:11I mean, he was the definition for it.
01:13And the Beatles, many people don't realize, started as a cover band in many ways.
01:17They were playing gigs in Germany and Hamburg and throughout England, and they were doing songs by other artists.
01:23For them, they were playing Chuck Berry songs.
01:25They were playing Roll Over Beethoven.
01:28Those songs taught the Beatles how to make rock and roll.
01:32And everything that Paul McCartney and John Lennon learned as songwriters, they learned by playing Chuck Berry's music and, you
01:38know, Elvis' music and Little Richard and all that.
01:40But for them, I think Chuck Berry's, again, energy as a performer, his incredible ability as a lyricist, and his,
01:49you know, guitar playing, which I know is something John Lennon and George Harrison, you know, looked at all the
01:55time.
01:55They wanted to sound like Chuck Berry.
01:57They wanted to play a guitar that looked like Chuck Berry's guitar.
02:04This building is here so we remember the legacy and the history of all these artists, not just as history,
02:10but as something that's living, right?
02:11That is music that we can still throw on and listen to a Chuck Berry song tonight.
02:16Of course, I did that yesterday.
02:17As soon as I heard, I threw on some of my Chuck Berry albums at home.
02:22That music will be with us forever, and it will continue to influence people forever, even if they're not listening
02:27to a Chuck Berry record.
02:28That's the great thing, right?
02:30You can go back and listen to a newer artist who's been influenced by Chuck, but you're still going to
02:35hear that influence moving forward.
02:38And again, here at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we continue to honor him and his legacy.
02:42You know, the very first person inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and that will live on
02:48forever.
02:51When I was a young kid, listening to stuff on a little jukebox little thing in a diner and stuff,
02:58and Chuck Berry's music was always on there, you know?
03:00So, it's, you know, just one of those people that we're losing more and more of every day, you know,
03:06that age group, you know?
03:08button.
03:09No.
03:09It was a great story.
03:09It was just one day.
03:09Wow.
03:09No.
03:09Thatklorem.
03:10Bye, guys.
03:10Grazie a tutti.
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