GENERAL: Happy Birthday, Chuck Berry !!!

HAIL, HAIL ROCK 'N' ROLL THE MASTER TURNS 82 TODAY! "Wanna see my ding-a-ling?" There are some musicians threaded into the DNA of things and there's zero doubt that an intrinsic part of rock's double helix is Chuck Berry. A pair of quotes at the beginning of his Wikipedia entry sum it up well: "Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is the first and one of its greatest early songwriters and guitarists, ...

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