NEW YORK (AP) — Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll's founding guitar hero and storyteller who defined the music's joy and rebellion in such classics as "Johnny B. Goode," ''Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll ...

He was divisive as he was influential, as creative as he was troubled, as rebellious as he was a tragic product of the times, and on July 3, 1971, the world lost the Lizard King, Mr. Mojo Risin’ ...

A self-taught electric guitar virtuoso, he influenced a generation of musicians. One of them, John Fogerty, called him rock’s first guitar god. By Bill Friskics-Warren Bill Friskics-Warren reports on ...

Berry's core repertoire was some three dozen songs, his influence incalculable, from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to virtually any group from garage band to arena act that called itself rock 'n ...