THE TOP 5 EARLY INNOVATORS
01 CHUCK BERRY
The Godfather of rock ’n’ roll...
Neither bluesman, entertainer nor country boy, Charles Edward Anderson Berry fused all three personas into a rip-snorting style that formed the very language of rock guitar as we know it today.
It’d be easy to see Chuck Berry simply as a flamboyant character from the early rock ’n’ roll days – the duck walk, the chunky boogie rhythm and those signature doublestop introductions. But there was much more to it. We often view players from that
