The Story Of Chuck Berry's 'Maybellene'
In 1955, a sort of undefined, get-you-in-the-belly music was named rock 'n' roll, though as John Lennon once put it, "If you tried to give rock 'n' roll another name, you might have called it Chuck Berry." Berry was a young man in St. Louis in 1955. He recorded the song "Maybellene" for Chess Records,