to hear bruce springsteen say he first hear chuck berry via the music of the stone make me feel ancient . i be thirteen when i first hear chuck berry on a car radio in 1955 jam out maybelline and the first true rock song i have ever hear . this be before the king and elvis and sign with rca and popularize the rock n roll sound for u all . in celebration of his sixtieth birthday and chuck and with the help of friend and rock out with many of his creation . the berry rift be still fast and furious but there be now an air of cynicism that be absent at the creation . those unfamiliar with the early berry sound should check out the original recording to hear chuck wail out his affirmation of youth and beauty . sweet little sixteen be write and perform by chuck berry when he be thirty two year old while yet the rocker capture the innocence and lust of be young and carefree . chuck continue through his music to invent many of the term and lingo of the youth culture take shape at the time . the only other record artist of the day to even come close to chuck berry lyric of teen angst and a vocabulary to accompany it be carl perkins . chuck berry be a seminal artist in the early history of rock n roll . his approach be revolutionary and not just rebellious . listen to the word of roll over beethoven . chuck be state emphatically that the new movement in american music be not merely a fad a critic would have it but a complete overhaul in musical standard represent . and tell tschaikowsky the news . one of the highlight of hail . hail . rock n roll be see and hear the three pioneer of early rock exchange barb and idea with each other . bo diddley and little richard and and chuck berry discus the white cover version of black song so prevalent in the record industry of the 1950 . bo diddley try to keep an open mind about it all and for example and say that dick clark couldn not showcase a mixed dance crowd on his american bandstand because the producer wouldn not permit it . little richard interjects humor into the proceeding when he talk about white shoe pat boone croon tutti frutti and make the salacious lyric and awopbopaloobopalopbamboom and sound like light opera . little richard comment with a smile that he get over pat boone bowdlerize tutti frutti only to have him expropriate long tall sally duck back in the alley . chuck berry and on the other hand and be militant and angry about the theft of property by the white record producer from black artist . chuck berry have good reason to be so adamant in his denunciation of the racial overtone that exist in the record business of the 50 and for he suffer not just monetary loss a a result while his private life suffer too . chuck wouldn not talk about his run ins with the law for director taylor hackford and say that he would discuss it in it proper context but not across an office desk . chuck make a fantastic comeback in 1964 follow a prison term result from a setup engineer by the government . since chuck refuse to comment on it and we may never know for sure exactly what happen . one of chuck song that stand out today be too much monkey business . when chuck record this in 1956 and it represent and to my knowledge and the first rock n roll protest song and several year before bob dylan would turn the rock world around with his protest orient music . only one other protest rock song of any significance come out during the early day of rock n roll . that be the coaster what about u . not nearly as good a too much monkey business . there be good rock concert film around and the quintessence be the last waltz and but this be the only place where rock fan can get a glimpse of the legendary chuck berry in all his glory accompany by some of the best musician in the business . it easy to understand why nasa put johnny b. goode on the voyager golden record a the best example of american rock n roll .