Little Sixteen" (#272) and "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (#374). In June 2008, his song "Johnny B. Goode" was ranked first in the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time". The journalist Chuck Klosterman has argued that in 300 years Berry will still be remembered as the rock musician who most closely captured the essence of rock and roll. Time magazine stated, "There was no one like Elvis. But there was 'definitely' no one like Chuck Berry." Rolling Stone called him "the father of rock & roll" who "gave the music its sound and its attitude, even as he battled racism - and his own misdeeds - all the way," reporting that Leonard Cohen said, "All of us are footnotes to the words of Chuck Berry." Kevin Strait, curator of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, said that Berry is "one of the primary sonic architects of rock and roll." According to Cleveland.com's Troy L. Smith, "Chuck Berry didn't invent rock and roll all by his lonesome. But he was the man who took rhythm and blues and transformed it into a new genre that would ever change popular music. Songs like 'Maybellene,' 'Johnny B. Goode,' 'Roll Over Beethoven' and 'Rock and Roll Music' would showcase the core elements of what rock and roll would become. The sound, the format and the style were built on the music Berry created. To some extent, everyone who followed was a copycat." Discography Studio albums After School Session (1957) One Dozen Berrys (1958) Chuck Berry Is on Top (1959) Rockin' at the Hops (1960) New Juke Box Hits (1961) Two Great Guitars (with Bo Diddley) (1964) St. Louis to Liverpool (1964) Chuck Berry in London (1965) Fresh Berry's (1965) Chuck Berry's Golden Hits (1967) Chuck Berry in Memphis (1967) From St. Louie to Frisco (1968) Concerto in B. Goode (1969) Back Home (1970) San Francisco Dues (1971) The London Chuck Berry Sessions (1972) Bio (1973) Chuck Berry (1975) Rockit (1979) Chuck (2017) References Citations General and cited sources p. 144 p. 173 p. 262 Further reading External links Chuck Berry at Last.fm Chuck Berry lyrics 1926 births 2017 deaths 20th-century African-American male singers 21st-century African-American male singers African-American Christians African-American guitarists African-American male singer-songwriters African-American male guitarists African-American rock singers American blues guitarists American blues singer-songwriters American male guitarists American people convicted of robbery American people convicted of