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115-416: Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English musician and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul , rhythm and blues , blues rock , and pop rock . Though primarily a guitarist, keyboard player, and vocalist prominent for his distinctive soulful high tenor voice, Winwood plays other instruments proficiently, including drums, mandolin, bass, and saxophone. Winwood achieved fame during

230-507: A BMI Icon. In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Winwood number 33 on its list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Winwood was born on 12 May 1948 in Handsworth, Birmingham . His father Lawrence, a foundryman by trade, was a semi-professional musician, playing mainly the saxophone and clarinet. Steve Winwood began playing piano at the age of four while interested in swing and Dixieland jazz , and soon started playing drums and guitar. He

345-536: A 911 operator can be heard responding to a reported cardiac arrest at Berry's home. Berry's funeral was held on April 9, 2017, at The Pageant , in Berry's home town of St. Louis. He was remembered with a public viewing by family, friends, and fans in The Pageant. He was viewed with his cherry-red Gibson ES-335 guitar bolted to the inside lid of the coffin and with flower arrangements that included one sent by

460-635: A factory worker at two automobile assembly plants and as a janitor in the apartment building where he and his wife lived. Afterwards, he trained as a beautician at the Poro College of Cosmetology, founded by Annie Turnbo Malone . He was doing well enough by 1950 to buy a "small three room brick cottage with a bath" on Whittier Street, which is now listed as the Chuck Berry House on the National Register of Historic Places . By

575-532: A focus on the guitar riff as the primary melodic element and an emphasis on songwriting as storytelling. His records are a rich storehouse of the essential lyrical, showmanship and musical components of rock and roll. In addition to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones , a large number of significant popular-music performers have recorded Berry's songs. Although not technically accomplished, his guitar style

690-495: A follow-up single in the same year, was his last Top 40 hit in both the US and the UK. Both singles were included on the part-live, part-studio album The London Chuck Berry Sessions (other albums of London sessions were recorded by Chess's mainstay artists Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf ). Berry's second tenure with Chess ended with the 1975 album Chuck Berry , after which he did not make

805-676: A hit when it was re-released with a remix from Winwood's 1987 compilation album Chronicles ). His 1986 album Back in the High Life marked his career zenith, with hit singles including " Back in the High Life Again ", " The Finer Things ", and the US Billboard Hot 100 number one hit " Higher Love ". He found the top of the Hot 100 again with " Roll with It " (1988) from the album Roll with It , with " Don't You Know What

920-752: A home at "Berry Park", near Wentzville, Missouri where he lived part-time since the 1950s and was the home in which he died. This home, with the guitar-shaped swimming pool, is seen in scenes near the end of the film Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll . He regularly performed one Wednesday each month at Blueberry Hill , a restaurant and bar located in the Delmar Loop neighborhood of St. Louis , from 1996 to 2014. Berry announced on his 90th birthday that his first new studio album since Rockit in 1979, entitled Chuck , would be released in 2017. His first new record in 38 years, it includes his children, Charles Berry Jr. and Ingrid, on guitar and harmonica, with songs "covering

1035-503: A joke, then having to explain it. The explanation doesn't add to the song at all." Winwood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic in 2004. In 2005, Winwood was honoured as a BMI Icon at the annual BMI London Awards for his "enduring influence on generations of music makers." In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Winwood No. 33 on its list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Winwood has won two Grammy Awards . He

1150-488: A long-time collaboration with the pianist. The band played blues and ballads as well as country . Berry wrote, "Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering 'who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?' After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff and enjoyed dancing to it." In 1954, Berry recorded

1265-528: A lot of twelve-year-olds new insight into the moribund concept of "dirty" when it hit the airwaves ... Robert Christgau Berry returned to Chess from 1970 to 1973. There were no hit singles from the 1970 album Back Home , but in 1972, Chess released a live recording of " My Ding-a-Ling ", a novelty song that he had recorded in a different version as "My Tambourine" on his 1968 LP From St. Louie to Frisco . The track became his only number-one single. A live recording of " Reelin' and Rockin' ", issued as

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1380-488: A mass toast at 10 pm in Berry's honor. One of Berry's attorneys estimated that his estate was worth $ 50 million, including $ 17 million in music rights. Berry's music publishing accounted for $ 13 million of the estate's value. The Berry estate owned roughly half of his songwriting credits (mostly from his later career), while BMG Rights Management controlled the other half; most of Berry's recordings are currently owned by Universal Music Group . In September 2017, Dualtone,

1495-446: A music style that included guitar solos and showmanship , Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music . Born into a middle-class black family in St. Louis , Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School . While still a high school student, he was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory , where he

1610-401: A new level of achievement when a rendition of " My Ding-a-Ling " became his only record to top the charts. His insistence on being paid in cash led in 1979 to a four-month jail sentence and community service, for tax evasion . Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986; he was cited for having "laid the groundwork for not only

1725-449: A popular blue-eyed soul album which Bowie himself called " plastic soul ". It featured the funk-inspired " Fame ", which became Bowie's first number-one hit in the US. Hall & Oates ' 1975 Daryl Hall & John Oates includes the ballad " Sara Smile ", long considered a blue-eyed soul standard. "She's Gone", another soulful hit, was originally released in 1973 but did better as a re-release after "Sara Smile". Bobby Caldwell , one of

1840-787: A reputation as a difficult and unexciting performer. He also played at large events in North America, such as the Schaefer Music Festival , in New York City's Central Park in July 1969, and the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival in October. Berry helped give life to a subculture ... Even "My Ding-a-Ling", a fourth-grade wee-wee joke that used to mortify true believers at college concerts, permitted

1955-458: A rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance." Berry is included in several of Rolling Stone magazine's "greatest of all time" lists; he was ranked fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and 2nd greatest guitarist of all time in 2023. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll includes three of Berry's: "Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", and "Rock and Roll Music". "Johnny B. Goode"

2070-530: A six-month suspended jail sentence, placed on two years unsupervised probation, and was ordered to donate $ 5,000 to a local hospital. While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together. It was his particular genius to graft country & western guitar licks onto a rhythm & blues chassis in his very first single, "Maybellene". Rock and Roll Hall of Fame A pioneer of rock and roll, Berry

2185-485: A speaking role as himself and performed "Johnny B. Goode", " Memphis, Tennessee ", and " Little Queenie ". His performance of "Sweet Little Sixteen" at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 was captured in the motion picture Jazz on a Summer's Day . The opening guitar riff of "Johnny B. Goode" is similar to the one used by Louis Jordan in his " Ain't That Just Like a Woman " (1946). Berry acknowledged

2300-466: A student at Sumner High School ; he was still a student there in 1944, when he was arrested for armed robbery after robbing three shops in Kansas City, Missouri , and then stealing a car at gunpoint with some friends. Berry's account in his autobiography is that his car broke down and he flagged down a passing car and stole it at gunpoint with a nonfunctional pistol. He was convicted and sent to

2415-614: A studio record until Rockit for Atco Records in 1979, which would be his last studio album for 38 years. In the 1970s, Berry toured on the strength of his earlier successes. He was on the road for many years, carrying only his Gibson guitar, confident that he could hire a band that already knew his music no matter where he went. AllMusic said that in this period his "live performances became increasingly erratic, ... working with terrible backup bands and turning in sloppy, out-of-tune performances" which "tarnished his reputation with younger fans and oldtimers" alike. In March 1972, he

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2530-486: A television special at The Roxy in West Hollywood with Tina Turner as his special guest. The concert was released a year later on home video. In November 2000, Berry faced legal issues when he was sued by his former pianist Johnnie Johnson who claimed that he had co-written over 50 songs, including "No Particular Place to Go", "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll Over Beethoven", that credit Berry alone. The case

2645-598: A third album, Last Exit , being issued later that year. Following Traffic's split, Winwood formed the supergroup Blind Faith , along with former Cream members Eric Clapton (guitar) and Ginger Baker (drums), and former Family member Ric Grech (bass). The band produced only one album , which reached No. 1 in both the UK and US, and included " Can't Find My Way Home ". The band was short-lived owing to Clapton's greater interest in Blind Faith's opening act on tour, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends ; Clapton left

2760-458: Is "one of the primary sonic architects of rock and roll." According to Cleveland.com's Troy L. Smith, "Chuck Berry didn't invent rock and roll all by his lonesome. But he was the man who took rhythm and blues and transformed it into a new genre that would ever change popular music. Songs like 'Maybellene,' 'Johnny B. Goode,' 'Roll Over Beethoven' and 'Rock and Roll Music' would showcase the core elements of what rock and roll would become. The sound,

2875-662: Is a 300-year-old manor house in the Cotswolds , England, where he also has a recording studio. Winwood also has a home in Nashville, Tennessee , with his wife, Eugenia Crafton, a Trenton, Tennessee native whom he married in 1987. They have four children. In 2011, one of Winwood's daughters, Mary Clare, married businessman Ben Elliot , later Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party between July 2019 and September 2022. The couple have two sons. Another daughter, Lilly,

2990-584: Is a singer; she was featured with Winwood performing a duet of his song "Higher Love" in a Hershey commercial. She was the opening act and was backing singer for her father's 2018 Greatest Hits Live tour. Blue-eyed soul Georgie Woods , a Philadelphia radio DJ, is thought to have coined the term "blue-eyed soul" in 1964, initially to describe The Righteous Brothers , then white artists in general who received airplay on rhythm and blues radio stations. The Righteous Brothers in turn named their 1964 LP Some Blue-Eyed Soul . According to Bill Medley of

3105-421: Is distinctive—he incorporated electronic effects to mimic the sound of bottleneck blues guitarists and drew on the influence of guitar players such as Carl Hogan , and T-Bone Walker to produce a clear and exciting sound that many later guitarists would acknowledge as an influence in their own style. Berry's showmanship has been influential on other rock guitarists, particularly his one-legged hop routine, and

3220-692: Is the only rock-and-roll song included on the Voyager Golden Record . Born in St. Louis , Berry was the youngest child. He grew up in the north St. Louis neighborhood known as the Ville , an area where many middle-class people lived. His father, Henry William Berry (1895–1987) was a contractor and deacon of a nearby Baptist church; his mother, Martha Bell (Banks) (1894–1980) was a certified public school principal. Berry's upbringing allowed him to pursue his interest in music from an early age. He gave his first public performance in 1941 while still

3335-426: Is thought to have started the trend of R&B radio stations to play songs by white artists in the mid-1960s, a more integrative approach that was then popular with their audience. The term blue-eyed soul was then applied to such artists as Sonny & Cher , Tom Jones , Barry McGuire , and Roy Head . White musicians playing R&B music, however, began before the term blue-eyed soul was coined. For instance, in

3450-576: The Billboard 200 album chart, his highest US debut ever. On 19 February 2008, Winwood and Clapton released a collaborative EP through iTunes titled Dirty City . Clapton and Winwood released a CD and DVD of their Madison Square Garden shows and then toured together in the summer of 2009. On 19 February 2008, Winwood and Clapton released a collaborative EP through iTunes titled Dirty City . Clapton and Winwood released an album and DVD of their Madison Square Garden shows and then toured together in

3565-689: The Billboard ' s Top 100 chart, and Berry toured as one of the "Top Acts of '56". He and Carl Perkins became friends. Perkins said that "I knew when I first heard Chuck that he'd been affected by country music. I respected his writing; his records were very, very great." In late 1957, Berry took part in Alan Freed 's "Biggest Show of Stars for 1957", touring the United States with the Everly Brothers , Buddy Holly , and others. He

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3680-668: The Fania All Stars ' Delicate and Jumpy record and performed as a guest with the band in their only UK appearance, a sold-out concert at the Lyceum Theatre , London. Under pressure from Island Records, Winwood released his self-titled first solo album in 1977. In 1979 he played keyboards on the Marianne Faithfull album Broken English , including synthesizer on the tracks " The Ballad of Lucy Jordan " and " Broken English " which were taken as singles from

3795-886: The Intermediate Reformatory for Young Men (now the Algoa Correctional Center) in Jefferson City, Missouri , where he formed a singing quartet and did some boxing. The singing group became competent enough that the authorities allowed it to perform outside the detention facility. Berry was released from the reformatory on his 21st birthday in 1947. On October 28, 1948, Berry married Themetta "Toddy" Suggs, who gave birth to Darlin Ingrid Berry on October 3, 1950. Berry supported his family by taking various jobs in St. Louis, working briefly as

3910-529: The Mann Act after allegations that he had had sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old Apache waitress, Janice Escalante, whom he had transported across state lines to work as a hatcheck girl at his club. After a two-week trial in March 1960, he was convicted , fined $ 5,000, and sentenced to five years in prison. He appealed the decision, arguing that the judge's comments and attitude were racist and prejudiced

4025-512: The Mann Act —he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines for the purpose of having sexual intercourse. After his release in 1963, Berry had several more successful songs, including " No Particular Place to Go ", " You Never Can Tell ", and " Nadine ". However, these did not achieve the same success or lasting impact of his 1950s songs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgia performer, playing his past material with local backup bands of variable quality. In 1972, he reached

4140-596: The Nashville area with his new American wife, Eugenia Crafton. With the exception of 1969's Blind Faith , Winwood had been with Island Records since the Spencer Davis Group's first single in 1964. However, at the peak of his commercial success, Winwood moved to Virgin Records and released the albums Roll with It (1988) and Refugees of the Heart (1990). Roll with It and its title track hit No. 1 on

4255-625: The Top R&;B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, making it the first album by a white artist to hit the top spot on that chart, mainly due to the gospel-influenced singles that were released from the album, most notably " Father Figure " and " One More Try ". In 1989, he racked up three wins in the American Music Awards including Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist and Favorite Soul/R&B Album for Faith . Dance-pop singer Rick Astley shifted to blue-eyed soul and adult contemporary in

4370-474: The " duck walk ", which he first used as a child when he walked "stooping with full-bended knees, but with my back and head vertical" under a table to retrieve a ball and his family found it entertaining; he used it when "performing in New York for the first time and some journalist branded it the duck walk." On July 29, 2011, Berry was honored in a dedication of an eight-foot, in-motion Chuck Berry Statue in

4485-552: The "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". In November his compilation album The Great Twenty-Eight was ranked 21st in Rolling Stone ' s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . In March 2004, Berry was ranked fifth on the list of "The Immortals – The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time". Joe Perry wrote in tribute, "As a songwriter, Chuck Berry is like the Ernest Hemingway of rock & roll. He gets right to

4600-572: The "Live the Life" tour. In 2014, Winwood toured North America with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. On 17 February 2020, Winwood participated in "A Tribute to Ginger Baker", which took place at Eventim Apollo Hammersmith in London. Other participants were Ron Wood, Roger Waters, and Eric Clapton. The concert was held in honour of Ginger Baker, his former band member in Blind Faith, who had died

4715-452: The 1960s and 1970s as an integral member of three major bands: the Spencer Davis Group (1964–1967), Traffic (1967–1969 and 1970–1974), and Blind Faith (1969). During the 1980s, his solo career flourished and he had a number of hit singles, including " While You See a Chance " (1980) from the album Arc of a Diver and " Valerie " (1982) from Talking Back to the Night ("Valerie" became

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4830-613: The 1960s, as exemplified by Otis Redding and the Bar-Kays . Joe Cocker , who sang soul-oriented covers of songs such as " With a Little Help from My Friends ", was said by the Chicago Sun Times to have "opened the door for all blue-eyed soul singers after him". Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds and the Grass Roots both had successful blue-eyed soul singles; the former with " Don't Pull Your Love " (1971) and

4945-643: The 1970s (often being paid in cash by local promoters), added ammunition to the Internal Revenue Service 's accusations that Berry had evaded paying income taxes. Facing criminal sanction for the third time, Berry pleaded guilty to evading nearly $ 110,000 in federal income tax owed on his 1973 earnings. Newspaper reports in 1979 put his 1973 joint income (with his wife) at $ 374,982. He was sentenced to four months in prison and 1,000 hours of community service—performing benefit concerts —in 1979. Berry continued to play 70 to 100 one-nighters per year in

5060-406: The 1980s, still traveling solo and requiring a local band to back him at each stop. In 1986, Taylor Hackford made a documentary film, Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll , of a celebration concert for Berry's sixtieth birthday, organized by Keith Richards . Eric Clapton , Etta James , Julian Lennon , Robert Cray , and Linda Ronstadt , among others, appeared with Berry on stage and in the film. During

5175-632: The Canteen (1971), The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971), Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory (1973), On the Road (1973) and When the Eagle Flies (1974). Weariness with the grind of touring and recording prompted Winwood to break up Traffic in 1974 and retire to session work for several years. In 1966, three years before Blind Faith, Winwood guested with Eric Clapton as part of

5290-739: The Delmar Loop in St. Louis right across the street from Blueberry Hill. Berry said, "It's glorious—I do appreciate it to the highest, no doubt about it. That sort of honor is seldom given out. But I don't deserve it." Rock critic Robert Christgau considers Berry "the greatest of the rock and rollers", and John Lennon said, "if you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." Ted Nugent said, "If you don't know every Chuck Berry lick, you can't play rock guitar." Bob Dylan called Berry "the Shakespeare of rock 'n' roll". Bruce Springsteen tweeted, "Chuck Berry

5405-709: The Heart) " (1982) and " Church of the Poison Mind " (1983); Dexys Midnight Runners' " Come On Eileen " (1983); the Style Council 's " Shout to the Top " (1984); Teena Marie 's " Lovergirl " (1985); Paul Young 's " Every Time You Go Away " (1985); Eurythmics ' " Missionary Man " (1986), and Steve Winwood 's " Roll with It " (1988). As the decade drew to a close, British artist Lisa Stansfield had considerable success on R&B radio, scoring three number-one R&B hits,

5520-607: The Holding Company , Janis Joplin formed a new backup group, the Kozmic Blues Band, composed of session musicians like keyboardist Stephen Ryder and saxophonist Cornelius "Snooky" Flowers, as well as former Big Brother and the Holding Company guitarist Sam Andrew and future Full Tilt Boogie Band bassist Brad Campbell. The band was influenced by the Stax-Volt rhythm and blues (R&B) and soul bands of

5635-620: The Light" for the animated film Balto . Winwood's final Virgin album, Junction Seven , was released in 1997, reaching the UK top 40. Later that year, he toured the US, and sang with Chaka Khan at the VH-1 Honors. In 1998, Winwood joined Tito Puente , Arturo Sandoval , Ed Calle , and other musicians to form the band "Latin Crossings" for a European tour, after which they split without making any recordings. Winwood also appeared in

5750-462: The Night Can Do? " and " Holding On " also charting highly the same year. Although his hit singles ceased after the 1980s, he continued to release new albums up to 2008, when Nine Lives , his latest album, was released. In 2004, Winwood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic. He has won two Grammy Awards and an Ivor Novello Award , and has been honored as

5865-560: The R&;B and dance charts, including some number-one hits. In 1985, Simply Red released " Holding Back the Years ", one of the most successful blue-eyed soul ballads; " Money's Too Tight (to Mention) " and other singles by the group also performed well. Other successful blue-eyed soul songs of the 1980s include Phil Collins ' cover of " You Can't Hurry Love " (1982); Culture Club 's " Do You Really Want to Hurt Me " (1982), " Time (Clock of

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5980-575: The Righteous Brothers, R&B radio stations who played their songs were surprised to find them to be white when they turned up for interviews, and one DJ in Philadelphia (unnamed by Medley but probably Georgie Woods) started saying "Here's my blue-eyed soul brothers", and it became a code to signal to the audience that they were white singers. The popularity of The Righteous Brothers who had a hit with " You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' "

6095-518: The Rolling Stones in the shape of a guitar. Afterwards a private service was held in the club celebrating Berry's life and musical career, with the Berry family inviting 300 members of the public into the service. Gene Simmons of Kiss gave an impromptu, unadvertised eulogy at the service, while Little Richard was scheduled to lead the funeral procession but was unable to attend due to an illness. The night before, many St. Louis area bars held

6210-749: The Ron Atkinson band. Muff Winwood later recalled that when Steve began playing regularly with him and his father in licensed pubs and clubs, the piano had to be turned with its back to the audience to try to hide him because he was so obviously underage. While still a pupil at Great Barr School, Winwood was a part of the Birmingham blues rock scene, playing the Hammond C-3 organ and guitar, backing blues and rock legends such as Muddy Waters , John Lee Hooker , Howlin' Wolf , B. B. King , Chuck Berry , and Bo Diddley on their United Kingdom tours,

6325-540: The Spencer Davis Group in April 1967, the quartet formed Traffic . Soon thereafter, they rented a cottage near the rural village of Aston Tirrold , Berkshire (now Oxfordshire ), to write and rehearse new music. This allowed them to escape the city and develop their music. Early in Traffic's formation, Winwood and Capaldi formed a songwriting partnership, with Winwood writing music to match Capaldi's lyrics. This partnership

6440-520: The US album and singles charts in the summer of 1988. In 1994, Winwood and Jim Capaldi reformed as Traffic for the album Far from Home . Despite lacking a significant hit, it broke the top 40 in both the UK and US. The band toured that year, which included a performance at the Woodstock '94 Festival. That same year, Winwood appeared on the A Tribute To Curtis Mayfield CD, recording Mayfield's " It's All Right ". In 1995, Winwood released "Reach for

6555-553: The US and released by Brunswick Records: "1-2-3", "Like a Baby", and "I Struck It Rich", a song he wrote with Leon Huff of the Philadelphia International Records producers, Gamble and Huff. Groups such as The Rascals had soul-tinged pop songs, but it was the soulful vocals of Felix Cavaliere that gave them the blue-eyed soul sound. By the mid-1960s, British singers Dusty Springfield , Eric Burdon , and Tom Jones had become leading vocal stars of

6670-718: The Winwood brothers after he saw them performing as the Muffy Wood Jazz Band at the Golden Eagle in Birmingham. The Spencer Davis Group made their debut at the Eagle and subsequently had a Monday-night residency there. Winwood's distinctive high tenor singing voice and vocal style drew comparisons to Ray Charles. In 1964, the Spencer Davis Group signed their first recording contract with Island Records . Producer and founder Chris Blackwell later said of Winwood, "He

6785-604: The album. In 1980, Winwood released his second solo album Arc of a Diver , which included his first solo hit, " While You See a Chance ". This was followed by Talking Back to the Night in 1982, which featured the song " Valerie ", which would eventually become a hit single upon re-release in 1987. Both Arc of a Diver and Talking Back to the Night were recorded at his home in Gloucestershire with Winwood playing all instruments. In 1986, Winwood travelled to New York City for his next album project. There, he enlisted

6900-469: The band a set list and expected the musicians to follow his lead after each guitar intro. Berry did not speak to the band after the show. Nevertheless, Springsteen backed Berry again when he appeared at the concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.) At the request of Jimmy Carter , Berry performed at the White House on June 1, 1979. Berry's touring style, traveling the "oldies" circuit in

7015-420: The band at the tour's completion, bringing Blind Faith to an end. In 1970, Winwood went into the studio to begin work on a solo album, tentatively titled Mad Shadows . However, Winwood ended up calling in his former Traffic bandmates Jim Capaldi and Chris Wood to help, with the recording resulting in a Traffic reunion album John Barleycorn Must Die . Traffic would continue for another five albums, Welcome to

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7130-508: The band's breakthrough hits in America, " Gimme Some Lovin' " and " I'm a Man ", both of which went Top 10 in the US and UK in late 1966 and early 1967. Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in April 1967. Winwood met drummer Jim Capaldi , guitarist Dave Mason , and multi-instrumentalist Chris Wood when they jammed together at The Elbow Room , a club in Aston , Birmingham. After Winwood left

7245-422: The blue-eyed soul album Home on Stax in 1969. Michael Sembello , who left home at age 17 to tour with Stevie Wonder , wrote and performed on numerous blue-eyed soul hits for Wonder, Brian McKnight , David Sanborn , Bill Champlin , and Bobby Caldwell . Todd Rundgren began his career in Woody's Truck Stop, a group based on the model of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. After splitting from Big Brother and

7360-403: The concert, Berry played a Gibson ES-355 , the luxury version of the ES-335 that he favored on his 1970s tours. Richards played a black Fender Telecaster Custom, Cray a Fender Stratocaster and Clapton a Gibson ES 350T, the same model that Berry used on his early recordings. In the late 1980s, Berry bought the Southern Air , a restaurant in Wentzville, Missouri . In 1982, Berry performed

7475-823: The contemporary urban sound. A similar article in Ebony , written in 1999 highlighted conflicting opinions about the "blue-eyed" influence; however, the source of contention was not about the artistic merit of blue-eyed soul, but rather the economic inequality that persisted in American life and within the music industry. According to scholar Joanna Teresa Demers, the "successors [of Presley] in blue-eyed soul and white funk" embittered poet Gil Scott-Heron , as it proved that "blacks were still being victimized by cultural appropriation , making their contributions to American history virtually invisible and inaudible." The "long tradition of white co-optation of black cultural identity" since Elvis amounting to "artistic theft" was, in Scott-Heron's words, "no new thing." Daryl Hall has described

7590-424: The country song " Ida Red "—which sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues chart. By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star, with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand. He was sentenced to three years in prison in January 1962 for offenses under

7705-468: The cultures were so far apart, we would have to have a play station in order to play it. The cultures begin to come together, and you begin to see one another's vein of life, then the music came together." Among the honors Berry received were the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984 and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000. He was ranked seventh on Time magazine's 2009 list of the 10 best electric guitar players of all time. On May 14, 2002, Berry

7820-503: The custom at that time being for US singers to travel solo and be backed by pick-up bands . At this time, Winwood was living on Atlantic Road in Great Barr, close to the Birmingham music halls where he played. Winwood modelled his singing after Ray Charles . At age 14, Winwood (then known as "Stevie" Winwood) became singer and keyboardist of the Spencer Davis Group , with his older brother Muff Winwood on bass, Spencer Davis on guitar, and Pete York on drums. Davis had been impressed by

7935-409: The debt to Jordan and several sources have indicated that his work was influenced by Jordan in general. By the end of the 1950s, Berry was a high-profile established star with several hit records and film appearances and a lucrative touring career. He had opened a racially integrated St. Louis nightclub, Berry's Club Bandstand, and invested in real estate. But in December 1959, he was arrested under

8050-437: The early 1950s, Berry was working with local bands in clubs in St. Louis as an extra source of income. He had been playing blues since his teens, and he borrowed both guitar riffs and showmanship techniques from the blues musician T-Bone Walker . He also took guitar lessons from his friend Ira Harris, which laid the foundation for his guitar style. By early 1953, Berry was performing with Johnnie Johnson 's trio, starting

8165-418: The early 1960s, one of the rare female blue-eyed soul singers was Timi Yuro , whose vocal delivery and repertoire were influenced by African American singers such as Dinah Washington . Lonnie Mack 's 1963 gospel-infused vocals earned him widespread critical acclaim as a blue-eyed soul singer. Len Barry , former lead singer on The Dovells , recorded blue eyed soul hits in 1965 and 1966 for Decca Records in

8280-554: The early 1990s with Free , featuring the hit " Cry for Help ". Joss Stone received acclaim after releasing her first album The Soul Sessions in 2003. Scottish musician Paolo Nutini whose first two albums influenced by soul music are certified quintuple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry . Adele 's debut album 19 was a global success. A backlash ensued in the late 1980s as some black people felt that white people were cashing in on

8395-477: The early teenage market by using graphic and humorous descriptions of teen dances, fast cars, high school life, and consumer culture, and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music. Thus Berry, the songwriter, according to critic Jon Pareles , invented rock as "a music of teenage wishes fulfilled and good times (even with cops in pursuit)." Berry contributed three things to rock music: an irresistible swagger,

8510-512: The emerging style. Other notable UK exponents of blue-eyed soul included The Spencer Davis Group (featuring Steve Winwood ), Van Morrison , and archetypal mod band The Small Faces , whose sound was heavily influenced by the Stax label's house band Booker T. & the M.G.'s . Blonde, blue-eyed soul singer Chris Clark became the first white singer to have an R&B hit with "Love's Gone Bad" with Motown Records in 1966. In 1969, Kiki Dee became

8625-545: The face." He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of harassment and paid a $ 250 fine. In 1990, he was sued by several women who claimed that he had installed a video camera in the bathroom of his restaurant. Berry claimed that he had the camera installed to catch a worker who was suspected of stealing from the restaurant. Although his guilt was never proven in court, Berry opted for a class action settlement. One of his biographers, Bruce Pegg, estimated that it cost Berry over $ 1.2 million plus legal fees. His lawyers said he had been

8740-554: The film Blues Brothers 2000 , as a member of the Louisiana Gator Boys, appearing on stage with Isaac Hayes , Eric Clapton , and KoKo Taylor at the battle of the bands competition. In 2003, Winwood released a new studio album, About Time , on his new record label, Wincraft Music. In 2004, Eric Prydz sampled Winwood's 1982 song " Valerie " for the song " Call on Me ". After hearing an early version, Winwood not only gave permission to use his song, he re-recorded

8855-675: The first British artist to sign and record with Motown. Some British rock groups of the 1960s – such as the Spencer Davis Group, the Rolling Stones (" My Girl "), and the Who (" Heat Wave ") – covered Motown and rhythm and blues tracks. In 1967, Jerry Lee Lewis , whose latter days at Sun Records (1961–63) had been characterized by R&B covers, recorded an album for Smash entitled Soul My Way . Elvis Presley released From Elvis in Memphis in 1969 an album of blue eyed soul, southern soul and country soul. Delaney and Bonnie (Bramlett) produced

8970-611: The help of a coterie of stars to record Back in the High Life . The album went triple platinum in the US, with its first single " Higher Love " reaching number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning Winwood Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. He embarked on an extensive tour of North America in support of the album, and at the end of the tour, he divorced Nicole Weir in England then settled in

9085-478: The jury against him. The appeal was upheld, and a second trial was heard in May and June 1961, resulting in another conviction and a three-year prison sentence. After another appeal failed, Berry served one and one-half years in prison, from February 1962 to October 1963. He had continued recording and performing during the trials, but his output had slowed as his popularity declined; his final single released before he

9200-481: The label which released Berry's final album, Chuck , agreed to publish all his compositions in the United States. Berry is interred in a mausoleum in Bellerive Gardens Cemetery in St. Louis. In 1987, Berry was charged with assaulting a woman at New York's Gramercy Park Hotel . He was accused of causing "lacerations of the mouth, requiring five stitches, two loose teeth, [and] contusions of

9315-560: The latter with " Two Divided by Love " (1971) and "The Runway" (1972). In 1973, the American band Stories and the Canadian group Skylark had successes with their respective blue-eyed soul singles " Brother Louie " and " Wildflower ". In February 1975, Tower of Power became the first white/mixed act to appear on Soul Train . Also in 1975, David Bowie , another early white artist to appear on Soul Train , released Young Americans ,

9430-558: The latter's Crossroads Guitar Festival . Among the songs they played were "Presence of the Lord" and " Can't Find My Way Home " from their Blind Faith days, with Winwood playing several guitar leads during a six-song set. The two continued their collaboration with three sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden in New York City in February 2008. Winwood's next studio album Nine Lives was released in 2008. Nine Lives opened at No. 12 on

9545-526: The live album he was backed by the Steve Miller Band . Although this period was not a successful one for studio work, Berry was still a top concert draw. In May 1964, he had made a successful tour of the UK, but when he returned in January 1965, his behavior was erratic and moody, and his touring style of using unrehearsed local backing bands and a strict nonnegotiable contract was earning him

9660-547: The melody of Berry's " Sweet Little Sixteen ". In 1964 and 1965 Berry released eight singles, including three that were commercially successful, reaching the top 20 of the Billboard 100: " No Particular Place to Go " (a humorous reworking of "School Days", concerning the introduction of seat belts in cars), " You Never Can Tell ", and the rocking " Nadine ". Between 1966 and 1969, Berry released five albums for Mercury Records , including his second live album (and first recorded entirely onstage), Live at Fillmore Auditorium ; for

9775-486: The most notable purveyors of blue-eyed soul, released his enduring hit " What You Won't Do for Love " in 1978. Blue-eyed soul music's chart success was at its highest when Hall and Oates' singles got heavy airplay on urban contemporary radio, as was the case with " I Can't Go for That (No Can Do) ", " Kiss on My List ", "One on One", "Say It Isn't So", "Adult Education", " Out of Touch ", "Method of Modern Love", and " Everytime You Go Away ". Most of those singles charted on

9890-518: The most popular being " All Around the World ". In the mid-1980s, George Michael found some success in the US Hot R&;B/Hip-Hop Songs with hit singles such as " Careless Whisper " and " Everything She Wants " but it was not until he reinvented himself as a white soul singer with the release of his multi-platinum album Faith (1987). The album was notable for slowly climbing to the top of

10005-539: The part of Captain Walker in the highly successful orchestral version of the Who 's Tommy . He recorded a 1973 album with Remi Kabaka and Abdul Lasisi Amao, as Third World, Aiye-Keta . Later, after the unrelated reggae group Third World had formed, the album was re-released and identified by the band members' names. In 1976, Winwood provided vocals and keyboards on Go , a concept album by Japanese composer Stomu Yamashta . That same year, Winwood also played guitar on

10120-629: The piano and organ instrumentation from the John Barleycorn Must Die track "Glad") on her song "Makes Me Wanna Pray". In May 2007, Winwood performed in support of the Countryside Alliance , an organisation opposed to the Hunting Act 2004 , in a concert at Highclere Castle , joining fellow rock artists Eric Clapton, Bryan Ferry , Steve Harley , and Kenney Jones . In July 2007, Winwood performed with Clapton in

10235-1105: The point. He tells a story in short sentences. You get a great picture in your mind of what's going on, in a very short amount of space, in well-picked words   ... kids today are playing the same three chords, trying to play in that same style. Turn the guitars up, and it's punk rock . It's the Ramones and the Sex Pistols . I hear it in the White Stripes , too. People will always cover Chuck Berry songs. When bands go do their homework, they will have to listen to Chuck Berry. If you want to learn about rock & roll, if you want to play rock & roll, you have to start there." In December 2004, six of his songs were included in " Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ": " Johnny B. Goode " (#7), " Maybellene " (#18), " Roll Over Beethoven " (#97), " Rock and Roll Music " (#128), " Sweet Little Sixteen " (#272) and " Brown Eyed Handsome Man " (#374). In June 2008, his song "Johnny B. Goode"

10350-413: The popularity of their music. The extent of the backlash, however, was not universally agreed upon. In 1989, Ebony Magazine published an article exploring whether white people were "taking over" R&B. The article featured various members of the music industry, both black and white, who believed collaboration was a unifying force, and there was agreement that the future of R&B was not compromised by

10465-665: The previous year. On 7 May 2023, Winwood performed as part of the Coronation Concert at Windsor Castle , where he sang "Higher Love" backed by virtual choirs from the Commonwealth realms . In 2024 Winwood toured North America with the Doobie Brothers. Winwood has spoken very little, publicly, about the origin or meaning of the songs he has written. He has said that "when I write a song, I don't like to have to explain it afterwards. To me, it's like telling

10580-503: The right time when Afro-American music was spilling over into the mainstream pop." When Berry first saw a copy of the Maybellene record, he was surprised that two other individuals, including DJ Alan Freed had been given writing credit; that would entitle them to some of the royalties. After a court battle, Berry was able to regain full writing credit. At the end of June 1956, his song " Roll Over Beethoven " reached number 29 on

10695-561: The samples for Prydz to use. The remix spent five weeks at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2005, Winwood's Soundstage Performances DVD was released. That same year, he appeared on Grammy Award winner Ashley Cleveland 's album Men and Angels Say , a mix of rock, blues, and country arrangements of well-known hymns, including " I Need Thee Every Hour ", which featured a vocal duet and organ performance. On her 2006 record Back to Basics , Christina Aguilera featured Winwood (using

10810-401: The spectrum from hard-driving rockers to soulful thought-provoking time capsules of a life's work" and dedicated to his wife Toddy. On March 18, 2017, Berry was found unresponsive at his home near Wentzville, Missouri . Emergency workers called to the scene were unable to revive him, and he was pronounced dead by his personal physician. TMZ posted an audio recording on its website in which

10925-642: The summer of 2009. In 2008, Winwood was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Berklee College of Music to add to his honorary degree from Aston University , Birmingham. On 28 March 2012, Winwood was one of Roger Daltrey 's special guest stars for "An Evening with Roger Daltrey and Friends" gig, in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall . In 2013, Winwood toured North America with Rod Stewart as part of

11040-694: The temporary group Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse . Three tracks were recorded and released on the 1966 various artists compilation album, What's Shakin' . In 1968, Winwood was recruited by Jimi Hendrix to play organ for " Voodoo Chile " on the Electric Ladyland album. Following the end of Blind Faith, Winwood and Ric Grech continued working with Ginger Baker, as part of Ginger Baker's Air Force , who also featured Winwood's Traffic bandmate Chris Wood. Winwood played on their self-titled first album , released in 1970. In 1972, Winwood recorded

11155-447: The term "blue-eyed soul" as racist , saying "it assumes I'm coming from the outside. There's always been that thing in America, where if you're a white guy and you're singing or playing in a black idiom, it's like: 'Why is he doing that? Is he from the outside, looking in? Is he copying? What's the point of it?' C'mon, it's music! It's music." Chuck Berry Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017)

11270-685: The tracks "I Hope These Words Will Find You Well" and "Oh, Maria!" with the group Joe Alexander & the Cubans. The songs were released as a single on the Ballad label. Berry's showmanship, along with a mix of country tunes and R&B tunes, sung in the style of Nat King Cole set to the music of Muddy Waters brought in a wider audience, particularly affluent white people. In May 1955, Berry traveled to Chicago, where he met Muddy Waters who suggested he contact Leonard Chess , of Chess Records . Berry thought his blues music would interest Chess, but Chess

11385-406: The victim of a conspiracy to profit from his wealth. Reportedly, a police raid on his house found intimate videotapes of women, one of whom was apparently a minor. Also found in the raid were 62 grams of marijuana . Felony drug and child abuse charges were filed. The child abuse charges were eventually dropped, and Berry agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor possession of marijuana. He was given

11500-602: Was 'definitely' no one like Chuck Berry." Rolling Stone called him "the father of rock & roll" who "gave the music its sound and its attitude, even as he battled racism—and his own misdeeds—all the way," reporting that Leonard Cohen said, "All of us are footnotes to the words of Chuck Berry." Kevin Strait, curator of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, said that Berry

11615-527: Was a guest on ABC 's Guy Mitchell Show , singing his hit song "Rock 'n' Roll Music". The hits continued from 1957 to 1959, with Berry scoring over a dozen chart singles during this period, including the US Top 10 hits " School Days ", " Rock and Roll Music ", " Sweet Little Sixteen ", and " Johnny B. Goode ". He appeared in two early rock-and-roll movies: Rock Rock Rock (1956), in which he sang "You Can't Catch Me", and Go, Johnny, Go! (1959), in which he had

11730-573: Was a larger fan of Berry's take on " Ida Red ". On May 21, 1955, Berry recorded an adaptation of the song "Ida Red", under the title " Maybellene ", with Johnnie Johnson on the piano, Jerome Green (from Bo Diddley 's band) on the maracas, Ebby Hardy on the drums and Willie Dixon on the bass. "Maybellene" sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues chart and number five on its Best Sellers in Stores chart for September 10, 1955. Berry said, "It came out at

11845-412: Was a significant influence on the development of both the music and the attitude associated with the rock music lifestyle. With songs such as " Maybellene " (1955), " Roll Over Beethoven " (1956), " Rock and Roll Music " (1957) and " Johnny B. Goode " (1958), Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics successfully aimed to appeal to

11960-667: Was also a choirboy at St. John's Church of England, Perry Barr . The family moved from Handsworth to Atlantic Road, Kingstanding Birmingham, where Winwood attended the Great Barr School , one of the first comprehensive schools . He also attended the Birmingham and Midland Institute of Music to develop his skills as a pianist, but did not complete his course. During this time, he befriended future Fleetwood Mac member Christine McVie . At eight years of age, Winwood first performed with his father and elder brother Muff in

12075-440: Was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll . Nicknamed the " Father of Rock and Roll ", he refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as " Maybellene " (1955), " Roll Over Beethoven " (1956), " Rock and Roll Music " (1957), and " Johnny B. Goode " (1958). Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism , and developing

12190-947: Was dismissed when the judge ruled that too much time had passed since the songs were written. In 2008, Berry toured Europe, with stops in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland, and Spain. In mid-2008, he played at the Virgin Festival in Baltimore . During a concert on New Year's Day 2011 in Chicago, Berry, suffering from exhaustion, passed out and had to be helped off stage. Berry lived in Ladue, Missouri , approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of St. Louis. He also had

12305-604: Was filmed, at the BBC Television Theatre in Shepherds Bush, for Chuck Berry in Concert , part of a 60-date tour backed by the band Rocking Horse. Among the many bandleaders performing a backup role with Berry in the 1970s, were Bruce Springsteen and Steve Miller when each was just starting his career. (Springsteen related in the documentary film Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll that Berry did not give

12420-566: Was held from 1944 to 1947. After his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant. By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of the blues musician T-Bone Walker , Berry began performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio . His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters , who suggested he contact Leonard Chess , of Chess Records . With Chess, he recorded "Maybellene"—Berry's adaptation of

12535-467: Was honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards. He was presented the award along with BMI affiliates Bo Diddley and Little Richard . In August 2014, Berry was made a laureate of the Polar Music Prize . Berry is included in several of Rolling Stone magazine's "Greatest of All Time" lists. In September 2003, the magazine ranked him number 6 in its list of

12650-462: Was imprisoned was " Come On ". When Berry was released from prison in 1963, his return to recording and performing was made easier because British invasion bands—notably the Beatles and the Rolling Stones —had sustained interest in his music by releasing cover versions of his songs, and other bands had reworked some of them, such as the Beach Boys ' 1963 hit " Surfin' U.S.A. ", which used

12765-579: Was nominated twice for a Brit Award for Best British Male Artist: 1988 and 1989. In 2011, he received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for Outstanding Song Collection. Between 1978 and 1986, Winwood was married to Nicole Weir (d. 2005), who had contributed background vocals to some of his early solo work. The two married at Cheltenham Register Office. Winwood's primary residence

12880-410: Was ranked first in the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Berry at number 96 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. The journalist Chuck Klosterman has argued that in 300 years Berry will still be remembered as the rock musician who most closely captured the essence of rock and roll. Time magazine stated, "There was no one like Elvis. But there

12995-451: Was really the cornerstone of Island Records. He's a musical genius and because he was with Island all the other talent really wanted to be with Island." The group's first single " Dimples " was released 10 days after Winwood's 16th birthday. The group had two UK No. 1 singles in late 1965 and early 1966 with " Keep on Running " and " Somebody Help Me "; the money from this success allowed Winwood to buy his own Hammond organ . Winwood co-wrote

13110-405: Was rock's greatest practitioner, guitarist, and the greatest pure rock 'n' roll writer who ever lived." When asked what caused the explosion of the popularity of rock 'n roll that took place in the 1950s, with him and a handful of others, mainly him, Berry said, "Well, actually they begin to listen to it, you see, because certain stations played certain music. The music that we, the blacks, played,

13225-542: Was the source of most of Traffic's material, including popular songs such as " Paper Sun ", "No Face, No Name, No Number", "Dear Mr. Fantasy", and " The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys ", and outlived the band, producing several songs for Winwood's and Capaldi's solo albums. Over the band's history, Winwood performed the majority of their lead vocals, keyboard instruments, and guitars (the latter more so after Mason's departure in 1968). Traffic disbanded in early 1969 after two albums, Mr. Fantasy (1967) and Traffic (1968), with

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