Just one day after Chuck Berry’s 90th birthday, the man that gave Berry his start for an incredible run of genre-birthing hits, Phil Chess, has died at 95. Chess and his brother Leonard changed the name of Aristocrat Records to Chess Records in 1950 after Leonard had been a partner there for two years. Phil […]
Stereogum — Just one day after Chuck Berry’s 90th birthday, the man that gave Berry his start for an incredible run of genre-birthing hits, Phil Chess, has died at 95. Chess and hi... more info