sexta-feira, outubro 18, 2024
Chuck Berry nasceu há 98 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 09:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues, Chuck Berry, guitarra, Johnny B. Goode, música, Rock and Roll
segunda-feira, março 18, 2024
Chuck Berry morreu há sete anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: Chuck Berry, guitarra, Johnny B. Goode, música, Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll
sexta-feira, março 31, 2023
Chuck Berry lançou a música Johnny B. Goode há 65 anos...!
"Johnny B. Goode" is a 1958 rock song written and first recorded by Chuck Berry. Released as a single, it peaked at number two on Billboard magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart and number eight on its pre-Hot 100 chart.
"Johnny B. Goode" is considered one of the most recognizable songs in the history of popular music. Credited as "the first rock & roll hit about rock & roll stardom", it has been recorded by many other artists and has received several honors and accolades, including being ranked seventh on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and included as one of the 27 songs on the Voyager Golden Record, a collection of music, images, and sounds designed to serve as a record of humanity.
Composition and recording
Written by Berry in 1955, the song is about a semi-literate "country boy" from the New Orleans area, who plays a guitar "just like ringing a bell", and who might one day have his "name in lights". Berry acknowledged that the song is partly autobiographical and that the original lyrics referred to Johnny as a "colored boy", but he changed it to "country boy" to ensure radio play. As well as suggesting that the guitar player is good, the title hints at autobiographic elements, because Berry was born at 2520 Goode Avenue, in St. Louis.
The song was initially inspired by Johnnie Johnson, the regular piano player in Berry's band, but developed into a song mainly about Berry himself. Johnson played on many recordings by Berry, but for the Chess recording session Lafayette Leake played the piano, along with Willie Dixon on bass and Fred Below on drums. The session was produced by Leonard and Phil Chess.
Legacy
In The Guardian, Joe Queenan wrote that "Johnny B. Goode" is "probably the first song ever written about how much money a musician could make by playing the guitar", and argued that "no song in the history of rock'n'roll more jubilantly celebrates the downmarket socioeconomic roots of the genre". In Billboard, Jason Lipshutz stated that the song was "the first rock-star origin story", and that it featured "a swagger and showmanship that had not yet invaded radio."
When Chuck Berry was inducted during the first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on January 23, 1986, he performed "Johnny B. Goode" and "Rock and Roll Music", backed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. The Hall of Fame included these songs and "Maybellene" in their list of the 500 songs that shaped rock and roll. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, for its influence as a rock and roll single.
"Johnny B. Goode" has been recorded by a wide variety of artists in different genres. In 1969, country musician Buck Owens's version topped Billboard magazine's Hot Country Sides chart. In 1972, Jimi Hendrix had a posthumous hit with a live version, which peaked at number 35 on the UK Singles Chart. and number 13 on the New Zealand Top 50 in 1986. Peter Tosh's rendition peaked at number 84 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 48 on the UK Singles Chart, number 10 in the Netherlands, and number 29 in New Zealand in 1983. In 1988, Judas Priest's version reached number 64 on the UK Singles Chart. The Sex Pistols also covered it for their soundtrack The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle in 1979.
The song is included, as the eleventh track of disc 1, in the Voyager Golden Record, travelling into deep space outside the solar system.
List | Publisher | Rank | Year of publication |
---|---|---|---|
500 Greatest Songs of All Time | Rolling Stone | 7 | 2004 |
100 Greatest Guitar Tracks | Q | 42 | 2005 |
100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time | Rolling Stone | 1 | 2008 |
Top 10,000 Songs | Acclaimed Music | 5 | N/A |
500 Songs That Shaped Rock | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | N/A | 1995 |
50 Greatest Guitar Solos | Guitar World | 12 | 2009 |
Postado por Fernando Martins às 06:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode, música, Rock, USA
sábado, março 18, 2023
Chuck Berry morreu há seis anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:06 0 bocas
Marcadores: Chuck Berry, guitarra, Johnny B. Goode, música, Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll
terça-feira, outubro 18, 2022
Chuck Berry nasceu há 96 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:09 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues, Chuck Berry, guitarra, Johnny B. Goode, música, Rock and Roll
sexta-feira, março 18, 2022
Chuck Berry morreu há cinco anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:05 0 bocas
Marcadores: Chuck Berry, guitarra, Johnny B. Goode, música, Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll
segunda-feira, outubro 18, 2021
Chuck Berry nasceu há 95 anos...!
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:09 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues, Chuck Berry, guitarra, Johnny B. Goode, música, Rock and Roll
Música para celebrar aniversariante de hoje...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 00:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: Johnny B. Goode, música, Peter Tosh, reggae, Rhythm and Blues, rocksteady, ska
quinta-feira, março 18, 2021
Chuck Berry partiu há quatro anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:04 0 bocas
Marcadores: Chuck Berry, guitarra, Johnny B. Goode, música, Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll
domingo, outubro 18, 2020
Chuck Berry nasceu há 94 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 09:40 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues, Chuck Berry, guitarra, Johnny B. Goode, música, Rock and Roll
sexta-feira, outubro 18, 2019
Chuck Berry nasceu há 93 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 09:30 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues, Chuck Berry, guitarra, Johnny B. Goode, música, Rock and Roll
quinta-feira, outubro 18, 2018
Chuck Berry nasceu há 92 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 09:20 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues, Chuck Berry, guitarra, Johnny B. Goode, música, Rock and Roll
domingo, março 18, 2018
Chuck Berry deixou-nos há um ano...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:00 1 bocas
Marcadores: Chuck Berry, guitarra, Johnny B. Goode, música, Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll
terça-feira, setembro 11, 2012
Peter Tosh foi assassinado há 25 anos
Peter Tosh (18 de outubro de 1944 – 11 de setembro de 1987) foi um pioneiro músico de reggae/ska.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 17:52 0 bocas
Marcadores: Jamaica, Johnny B. Goode, Legalize it, música, Peter Tosh, reggae, Rhythm and Blues, rocksteady, ska, The Wailers
sábado, janeiro 14, 2012
The King is Alive!
Postado por Pedro Luna às 23:55 0 bocas
Marcadores: Aloha from Hawaii, anos 70, Elvis Presley, Johnny B. Goode, música
terça-feira, outubro 18, 2011
Chuck Berry - 85 anos!
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode, música, Rock, USA
domingo, setembro 11, 2011
Peter Tosh foi assassinado há 24 anos
Peter Tosh - Johnny B. Goode
Deep down in Jamaica, close to Mandeville
Back up in the woods, on top of a hill
There stood an old hut made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
He never learned to read or write so well
But he could play his guitar like ringin' a bell yell
Said go, go Johnny!
Johnny be good tonight!
Said go, go Johnny!
Johnny B. Goode...
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Sit beneath a tree in the railroad track
Old engineer in the train sittin' in the shade
Strummin' with the rhythm that the drivers made
People passing by would stop and say:
"Oh my, oh my, what the boy can play"
Said go, go Johnny!
Johnny be good tonight!
Said go, go Johnny!
Johnny B. Goode...
Mama said: "Son, you gotta be a man,
You got to be the leader of a reggae band
People comin' in from miles around
To hear you play until the sun goes down
Boy, someday your name will be in the lights
Sayin' Johnny - Johnny be good tonight
Postado por Fernando Martins às 02:25 0 bocas
Marcadores: Bob Marley, Jamaica, Johnny B. Goode, música, Peter Tosh, reggae, ska
segunda-feira, janeiro 03, 2011
E ainda consegue tocar...!
Concerto interrompido
Chuck Berry incapaz de tocar após desmaio
Chuck Berry desmaiou sobre o teclado, voltou para tentar tocar guitarra e depois teve de assumir-se incapaz de continuar actuação
O veterano do rock&roll Chuck Berry, de 84 anos, desmaiou durante o último concerto que deu em Chicago, nos Estados Unidos, no sábado passado.
Depois de perder os sentidos sobre os teclados, após uma hora de actuação, Berry ainda voltou ao palco cerca de 20 minutos depois, mas foi incapaz de avançar com os acordes da guitarra. O músico teve de ser socorrido por membros da equipa técnica e saiu de palco.
Voltou ainda de novo para dizer a uma entusiasta audiência que estava sem forças para prosseguir.
Chuck Berry é um dos mais admirados músicos norte-americanos, que tem uma carreira feita de êxitos como ‘Johnny B Goode’ e ‘Roll Over Beethoven’ e influenciou artistas como The Beatles ou The Rolling Stones.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 20:16 0 bocas
Marcadores: Chuck Berry, Johnny B. Goode, música