Chuck Berry: A Life in Pictures

Chuck Berry: A Life in Pictures

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Chuck Berry - A Life in Pictures.

Before few days the music world had a sad news about Chuck Berry. The legendary blues artist and one of the pioneers of Rock N’ Roll music, died at age of 90. Because of that we decided to make one gallery with photos from Berry. Rest In Peace Legend! All images is from Getty Images archive.

THE GALLERY

Chuck Berry performs his famous “duck walk” as he plays his guitar, April 4, 1980.
Chuck Berry performing at Cal Expo in Sacramento, 1976.
Chuck Berry at the London Rock and Roll Show, Wembley Stadium, August 1972.
Chuck Berry on stage at the Star Club, June 1964, in Hamburg.
Chuck Berry performs at the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Hague, Netherlands, 1995.
Chuck Berry at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, May 1981.
Chuck Berry with his Gibson hollowbody electric guitar, 1958.
Chuck Berry in 1958.
Chuck Berry in a recording studio during the 1950s.
Chuck Berry during a concert in Burgos, northern Spain, Nov. 25, 2007.
Chuck Berry plays a Gibson Les Paul electric guitar as he performs onstage with his band including piano player Johnnie Johnson, circa 1957.
Keith Richards and Chuck Berry during the filming of the movie “Hail, Hail Rock and Roll” at the Fox Theater on Oct. 16, 1986 in St. Louis.
Bruce Springsteen and Chuck Berry perform the Berry hit “Johnny B. Goode” at the Concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Sept. 2, 1995.
Chuck Berry and Dave Edmunds at Madison Square Garden, 1989.
Eric Clapton and Chuck Berry at the ninth annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria on January 19, 1994.
Little Richard, Chuck Berry & Bo Diddley during 2002 BMI Pop Awards at Regent Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills.
Chuck Berry with Keith Richards at New York’s Studio 54, Feb. 28, 1980.
Michael Jackson and Chuck Berry at a Grammy Awards reception at Chasen’s restaurant circa 1978 in Los Angeles.
Keith Richards, Neil Young and Chuck Berry during the finale of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Awards in New York, Jan. 24, 1986.
Chuck Berry at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 15, 1971.
Disc jockey and promoter Alan Freed at the WINS radio station with Chuck Berry and publisher Gene Goodman during a radio interview and broadcast in 1955.
Chuck Berry dances on stage at the Presidential Gala for President-elect Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, Jan. 19, 1993, at the Capital Centre in Landover, Md.
Chuck Berry performs during a concert celebration for his 60th birthday at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, 1986. The concert is being filmed for a motion picture documentary titled “Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll.”
Chuck Berry performs during the Bal de la Rose in Monte Carlo on March 28, 2009.
Chuck Berry performs during the ‘Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ concert in Zurich, July 5, 2000.
Chuck Berry performs at the Pageant Theater in St. Louis, Oct. 18, 2001, during his 75th birthday bash.
Chuck Berry plays the Congress Theatre in Chicago, Jan. 1, 2011.
Keith Richards and Chuck Berry at the Petrillo Band Shell in Chicago, June 7, 1986.
Chuck Berry, one of the biggest influences on pre-Beatles pop, during the 1960s.
Chuck Berry performs live at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, 1973.
Movie poster advertises the Italian release of Alan Freed’s musical ‘Rock, Rock, Rock’, starring Chuck Berry, 1956.
Chuck Berry performs in New York, Feb. 20, 1993.
Chuck Berry performs at the Izvestia Hall on Oct. 20, 2013 in Moscow.

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