The festival is held each year in Johnson's honor, with this years featured bands including "The Deep Fried Five", "The Up ...

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“It’s a sad day,” says Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, mourning his idol and good friend Johnnie Johnson. “I’ve been playing Chuck Berry records all day, listening to Johnnie ...

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame pianist Johnnie Johnson, who worked closely with Chuck Berry and insisted that he was the inspiration for the song "Johnny B. Goode," died April 13 at his home in St ...

Johnnie Johnson will be forever known as the ultimate rock ‘n’ roll sideman, the piano player who put the boogie-woogie in Chuck Berry’s guitar-driven narratives. Without him, Ber… ...

Johnson often composed the music on piano, then Berry converted it to guitar and wrote the lyrics. In fact, Berry's Johnny B. Goode was a tribute to Johnson.

Johnnie Johnson, the St. Louis pianist whose popular early-1950s trio was the launching pad for a young guitarist named Chuck Berry and who played a key role in the sound of Berry’s genre ...

Johnson had also been planning to return to his West Virginia hometown to teach a music class later this year. Johnson is survived by his wife, Frances, 10 children and numerous grandchildren.

St. Louis newscaster Art Holliday was in the throes of working on a documentary on paranoid schizophrenia in 2003 when a photographer in the KSDK newsroom mentioned that musician Johnnie Johnson ...

Johnnie Johnson, a rock'n'roll pioneer who teamed with Chuck Berry for hits like "Roll Over Beethoven" and "No Particular Place to Go," died today (April 13) at his St. Louis home. He was 80.

So I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast their careers. In terms of music, Chuck Berry and Johnnie Johnson were like Siamese twins.

Feb. 25—FAIRMONT — If it hadn't been for the movie, "Hail ! Hail ! Rock 'n' Roll, " Johnnie Johnson likely would have ended his days unheralded in St. Louis, a part-time bus driver who could ...