68 Years Later, the Greatest Rock and Roll Riff Ever Written Still Hits Different

Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode served as the blueprint for rock and roll, influencing legends like The Beatles and Elvis ...
Chicago magazine

RIP Chuck Berry: The Chicago Sound of "Johnny B. Goode"

I'm probably not the only person whose life was changed by the opening riff to "Johnny B. Goode." Even though it was recorded 23 years before I was born, '80s kids got to experience it by proxy ...
Hyperallergic

Chuck Berry and the Modernist Fable of “Johnny B. Goode”

“Johnny B. Goode” is Chuck Berry’s two-and-a-half minute essay on the Machine in the Garden. For Marx, this dialectic is neatly summed up by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s encounter with industrial modernity ...