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"I was raised thinking art work was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't color." (Chuck Berry) "If you tried to provide rock and roll another name, you may call it Chuck Berry." (John Lennon) The roots of rock music say several founding fathers, with each perspective possessing merit and straight contributing to the golden time to follow in rock music. While Elvis Presley remains possibly the most high-profile figure of early rock, he was not truly a member of the first era. If anything he was a product of a marginally older wave of groundbreaking musicians and artists. Showing up immediately before Presley's climb was Texan Pal Holly, whose borrowings from driving a vehicle black rhythms combined with white lyrics to make him main successful crossover musicians and artists. However, possibly the first and eventually the most successful of this category - those artistic explorers who most effectively blurred racial and political lines through their music - was Chuck Berry: an African-American blues and country singer/guitarist/songwriter. He properly combined the prevailing forms of his era to get both dark-colored and white audiences with a virtuosity and originality that place the bar for another half century. Unlike Presley, plus more in the manner of Holly, Chuck Berry published his own classics. And he thrived as both a composer and lyricist based on his early love of poetry and hard blues, jump blues jazzy ballads, boogie-woogie, and hillbilly music.
