The festival has been around since 1971 and has featured bands from Chuck Berry to Sleater Kinney.

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When he joined the Roosters at age 17, even Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley seemed "poppy" to them, he said.

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He was clutching a Chuck Berry album, Rockin' at the Hops, and The Best of Muddy Waters under his arm.

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He parades in front of his all-star rhythm band like a cross between Chuck Berry, early Bob Dylan, and Marlon Brando.

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What does this mean for the consumer listening to the Beatles rip off Chuck Berry in the background of a WKRP episode?

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Where would Mick (Jagger) and Keith (Richards) be without Chuck Berry?

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Most of the time I was trying to play like Chuck Berry or Jimmy Reed, electric stuff, then I sort of worked backward into country blues.

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His mindfulness of the creative chain snaking from Woody Guthrie to Chuck Berry to Dylan and Lennon is a major element of what his albums are about, political and socioeconomic issues aside.

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Chuck Berry, Martha and the Vandellas, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, the Everly Brothers, James Brown, Lesley Gore, Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon, the Kingsmen, the Drifters, Fabian, the Coasters, Little Eva, the Ventures, Sam the Sham.

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