The Influence Of Chuck Berry's Music

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Chuck Berry is arguably known as the creator of Rock ‘N’ Roll with famous artists such as Elvis, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones following to take his style of music after he was sentenced to prison. He is the epitome of the genre and without him we wouldn’t have Rock ‘N’ Roll. Oxford Music Online describes his rare talent, affect to the music industry, and the troubles he had to conquer to become the artist that he is known as today. AllMusic.com took another turn and talked more about his success and personal issues like his jail sentences. In my own opinion, I feel like they personally are tarnishing his legacy of the influential artist he was. One article is praising him for his success and the other is judging the talented artist but deeply describes how plenty of bands took his style …show more content…
I believe both of these articles are written for a similar audience. They both describe the importance of the development of Chuck Berry’s music and how it affected Rock ‘N’ Roll. I like how in Oxford Music Online they only describe how he overcame struggles of being a black man and still became one of the most influential artists ever. In AllMusic.com, I felt it was needed to write about his troubles with the law and was more informative but being a fan of his music, I didn’t appreciate it. Wikipedia being some sort of an encyclopedia is very descriptive of his troubling law issues. Living and growing up poor and in a tough St. Louis ghetto, Chuck Berry had a tough childhood and those issues raised later in his life, post-jail sentence and after his fame seemed to decline. He dealt with child-abuse charges, drug