Topix — This is a promotional copy of "Maybellene," Chuck Berry's first single for Chess Records. more info

Guardian Music — Teenage love was at rock'n'roll's core. The stars were often not much older than female fans, and industry middlemen also tried to interpose themselves into the sexual mixBack in 1968, Mick Jagger sang, "I don't care that you're 15 years old, I don't... more info

Guardian Music — Bush Hall, LondonIt's Lisa Marie Presley's first ever UK gig and she is battling a cold. But having spent 44 years in the shadow of a rock'n'roll revolutionary and surviving a marriage to the King of Pop, she's not about to let a bit of phlegm get... more info

Topix — Country legend Merle Haggard has been added to the list of performers who will pay homage to 2012 American Music Masters honoree Chuck Berry at a concert on Saturday, Oct. more info

Popdose — Forty years ago this fall, Chuck Berry’s career was in renaissance. His last hits of any consequence had come in 1964, but in 1972 he benefited from the ongoing rediscovery of blues and rock pioneers by young British stars. The London Chuck Berry ... more info

Guardian Music — The former Talking Head delights with a 'wildly ambitious' study of all matters musical, from Pythagoras to the MP3David Byrne was not like other boys. When he first heard Purple Haze, aged 14, the precocious future leader of Talking Heads informed h... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s salute to Chuck Berry as the 2012 honoree for its "American Masters" series will be capped with a multi-artist concert featuring Ernie Isley of the Isley Brothers, Darryl McDaniels of Run DMC, New York Dolls singer ... more info

Topix — Chuck Berry, right, was inducted into the Rock Hall in January 1986. Next month, he will be the Rock Hall's American Music Masters honoree. more info

Guardian Music — GRRR!, a 50th-anniversary compilation due in November, will feature two new songs, the band's first since A Bigger BangThe Rolling Stones will release two new songs on 12 November, as part of a 50th-anniversary greatest hits compilation. One Last Sho... more info

Guardian Music — The Californian hip-hop artist and record-digger extraordinaire on his love of James Brown, his thirst for new music, and why Dr Dre sounds like homeDuring his most intense period of collecting, Josh Davis, alias DJ Shadow, would spend several hours ... more info