Thanks for the music, Chuck Berry!

Written for Kurrent Music
Published March 19th 2017

Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry blog

This week, another musical legend was taken and I’m pretty surprised (though I shouldn’t be) that none of the Kurrent Music bloggers have blogged about him yet. Chuck Berry was one of the founders of pop music like we know it today.

Musical evolution is like an ocean full of waves. One wave flows into the other and all of the waves together form the ocean. I realize that many Kurrent Music readers might not be of that age to know who Chuck Berry was (in fact, neither am I), but let’s just say that he was one of the waves that got the water moving in the first place.

The music today would not sound like it does, if it weren’t for people like Chuck Berry. He was part of a movement that brought us rock  ‘n roll. Piano loops, lively lyrics and guitar riffs created a new foundation for pop today. For instance the piano loops from those days can still be found in, for instance, Rihanna’s “Love On The Brain”, but it also served as an example for bass loops in today’s house and dance music.

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