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Chuck Berry is considered by many to be the father of guitar-based rock and roll. ( As Bo Diddley is considered the father or heavy metal, and the father of piano-based rock and roll is either Fats Domino or Little Richard). There's a line in an old Bob Segar song "all Chuck's chillun' are out there playing his licks ........ rock and roll never forgets". Chuck's chillun are Chuck Berry's children. He invented many, many riffs on the guitar that had never been done, and are still being done today. He was a big influence on The Rolling Stones, and many other English bands, who seemed to come to appreciate his music before Americans did. He also had a gift as a lyricist - his lyrics were complicated, fast, always poetical in meter and grammatically correct - and often funny. Boys realized that they could find an Electric Guitar and an amplifier and learn to play these songs by themselves - then were joined by others, and garage bands were born.

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