Golden Rock Hits of Chuck Berry Reviews

I'll try to keep the Byrds out of this, even though they apply to everything.
It's hard to form a balanced opinion of Chuck Berry for me. He's that black guy that I know, since the Beatles and the Beach Boys covered him. George Harrison's version of "Roll over Beethoven" made me a little giddy about the guy, since I found Beethoven to be a crabby old man. (Learning a little piano has made me less critical of guys like Bach, since he wrote a decent minuet, but that's a totally different story.) And that two famous bands covered "Rock and Roll Music" is pretty cool, but of course Berry wrote more than two songs, and he performed them himself, too. So it's a little hard to describe him, or to find the right adjective for the guy.
Maybe he's like the Beach Boys, since they're both (American and) steady old-school sorts. Maybe he's somewhat less successful too, at least from my own point of view, although it is true that there's nothing wrong with "Johnny B. Goode".

(8/10)