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Legacy - The World of Chuck Berry

Artist Song
The Rolling Stones  Rocks Off  
John Lennon, The Plastic Ono Band, Elephant's Memory & The Invisible Strings  New York City  
Bruce Springsteen  Johnny Bye-Bye  
Bob Dylan  Subterranean Homesick Blues  
The Beach Boys  Surfin' USA  
Faces  Cindy Incidentally  
George Thorogood & The Destroyers  If You Don't Start Drinkin' (I'm Gonna Leave)  
Led Zeppelin  Rock and Roll  
Grateful Dead  Truckin'  
Stray Cats  Rev It Up & Go  
The Blasters  American Music  
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble  Love Struck Baby  
Robert Cray  Nothin But a Woman  
Dave Edmunds  I Knew the Bride  
The J. Geils Band  Pack Fair and Square (Live)  
T. Rex  Baby Boomerang  
Brownsville Station  Smokin' In the Boys Room  
NRBQ  Me and the Boys  
Rockpile  You Ain't Nothin' But Fine  
Dr. Feelgood  She Does It Right  

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For the sake of time and space, it'd be easier to discuss the artists and scenes Chuck Berry [i]didn't[/i] influence than the ones he did. But rest assured: that won't stop us. If you're thinking that the Beach Boys kidnapped Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen" from a sock hop and morphed it into "Surfin' USA," you're not alone; Berry later received a writer's credit for the woody-waxin' wonder. Keith Richards might never have chatted up soon-to-be fellow Rolling Stone Mick Jagger if the latter hadn't arrived on a train one fateful morning with a freshly imported pressing of Chuck's [i]One Dozen Berrys[/i]; if not for that chance meeting, we'd never have heard the wheels-coming-off glory of [i]Exile On Main St[/i]'s "Rocks Off." And producer/writer/guitar deity Dave Edmunds assembled a retrofied wrecking crew later known as Rockpile to turn the 1977 calendar back two decades — without missing a power-pop beat — in his cover of Nick Lowe's "I Knew the Bride" (itself inspired by Berry's "You Never Can Tell"). From Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen, from Led Zeppelin to T. Rex, we've got all the fruits of Berry's family tree.
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