Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. The words come out hard, like bullets.

Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews.

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong - I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.