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  1. On Jul 25, 1969: 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival (across 3 days); performers include #BoDiddley, Flying Burrito Brothers, Ten Years After, Guess Who, Santana, Tim Buckley, Byrds, Ike & #TinaTurner Revue, Chicago Transit Authority, #ChuckBerry, Led Zeppelin, and The Doors.

  2. "Carol" is a song written and recorded by #ChuckBerry, first released by #ChessRecords in 1958, with "Hey Pedro" as the B-side. The single reached number 18 on Billboard's Hot 100 and number 12 on the magazine's #RAndBChart. In 1959, it was included on his first compilation album, #BerryIsOnTop. Berry employs his well-known guitar figure, which #AllMusic critic Matthew Greenwald describes as "a guitar lick that indeed propelled not just Berry's greatest works.
    youtube.com/watch?v=lLpxD8zU4N4

  3. On 4 Jul 1969: 140,000 attend 2-day Atlanta Pop Festival in Byron, Georgia; performers include: #JanisJoplin; Blood, Sweat & Tears; Chicago; Led Zeppelin; Delaney and Bonnie; #CreedenceClearwaterRevival, Canned Heat; #JoeCocker; #ChuckBerry; Spirit; and Johnny Winter.

  4. "Maybellene" is a #rockAndRoll song by American artist #ChuckBerry, adapted in part from the #westernSwing fiddle tune "Ida Red". Released in 1955, Berry’s song tells the story of a #hotRod race and a broken romance, the lyrics describing a man driving a #V8 #Ford and chasing his unfaithful girlfriend in her #CadillacCoupeDeVille. It was released in July 1955 as a #single by #ChessRecords, of #ChicagoIllinois. Berry's first hit.
    youtube.com/watch?v=eE7VMVNGRNU

  5. 55 years ago today, 50,000 attend Celebration of Life, rock concert in McCrea, Louisiana; performers included #ChuckBerry; Stephen Stills; WAR; #JohnSebastian; and Delaney and Bonnie.

  6. "You Never Can Tell", also known as "C'est La Vie" or "Teenage Wedding", is a #song written by #ChuckBerry. It was composed in the early 1960s while Berry was in federal prison for violating the #MannAct. Released in 1964 on the album #StLouisToLiverpool and the follow-up single to Berry's final Top Ten hit of the 1960s: "No Particular Place to Go", "You Never Can Tell" reached number 14, becoming Berry's final #Top40 hit until "My Ding-a-Ling".
    youtube.com/watch?v=t-Q3ADnJKpY

  7. "School Days" (also known as "School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)") is a #rockandroll song written and recorded by #ChuckBerry and released by #ChessRecords as a #single in March 1957 and on the #LP #AfterSchoolSession two months later. It is one of his best-known songs and is often considered a rock-and-roll anthem. The last verse of the song contains the lyrics "Hail, hail rock.
    youtube.com/watch?v=8QG4DNFvsAQ

  8. On June 11, 2019: NY Times reports that an estimated 500,000 song titles, including masters of #ChuckBerry, #LouisArmstrong, and #EllaFitzgerald, were lost in a 2008 warehouse fire on Universal backlot in Los Angeles.

  9. 65 years ago today, #ChuckBerry's amusement park, Berryland, opens in St. Louis, Missouri.

  10. "School Days" (also known as "School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes the Bell)") is a #rockandroll song written and recorded by #ChuckBerry and released by #ChessRecords as a #single in March 1957 and on the LP #AfterSchoolSession two months later. It is one of his best-known songs and is often considered a rock-and-roll anthem. The last verse of the song contains the lyrics "Hail, hail rock.
    youtube.com/watch?v=DHG5-GxI_Es