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Sep 26, 2006 · Most Famous Hits: Chuck Berry - Long Live Rock 'N' Roll [DVD] Chuck Berry (Actor) Rated: NR. Format: DVD. 3.6 out of 5 stars 10. DVD from $28.00
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Most Famous Hits [DVD] by Chuck Berry released in 2006. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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- Brian Hiatt,David Browne,Jon Dolan,Hank Shteamer,Kory Grow
- “Maybellene” (1955) Rock & roll guitar starts here. The pileup of hillbilly country, urban blues and hot jazz in Chuck Berry’s electric twang is the primal language of pop-music guitar, and it’s all perfected on his first single.
- “Thirty Days” (1955) Berry’s upbeat call for a lover to come home in a month shows off both his dexterous soloing style, in which he plays chords (!) for the duration of the lead break and his sense of humor.
- “Wee Wee Hours” (1955) It took Berry only about an hour, by his own estimation, to write “Wee Wee Hours,” the bluesy B side to “Maybellene.” His inspiration for the song was bluesman Big Joe Turner’s smooth “Wee Baby Blues,” a romantic declaration of love at first sight – “I was in love with you, baby/ Way before I learned to call your name,” Turner sang.
- “Down Bound Train” (1955) A bluesy allegory for sin with a locomotive rhythm-guitar line, “Down Bound Train” reflected Berry’s deeply held religious beliefs.
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- "Johnny B. Goode" (1958) Berry's signature song wasn't autobiographical, but it could have been. "He could play guitar just like ringing a bell," he sings over one of rock 'n' roll's sturdiest musical templates.
- "Maybellene" (1955) Berry's first single kicks off with a blast of distorted guitar that must have sounded like a tempest in 1955. R&B music was creeping toward rock 'n' roll before this, but "Maybellene" pushes forward with a force that pretty much heralded the genre.
- "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956) As if uptight people in the '50s needed more signs of the rock 'n' roll apocalypse. "Roll Over Beethoven" is a defiant declaration of the music as a cultural force demanding to be taken seriously as an art form.
- "Sweet Little Sixteen" (1958) Brian Wilson loved "Sweet Little Sixteen" so much he used most of it in the Beach Boys' "Surfin' U.S.A." Berry's original, like many of his earliest pioneering hits, is a teen anthem that celebrates, in equal parts, rock 'n' roll and the youth revolution.
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