Chuck Berry's House

The influential guitarist, singer, songwriter and first inductee into the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame, lived here. His former Los Angeles area home that he owned for decades is also featured on this site.

Chuck Berry is perhaps the world's most influential guitarist, pioneering the rock guitar sound that would become definitive of Rock ‘n Roll. His distinct loud electric guitar driven music with a classic four four, driving rhythm, would transform rhythm and blues into a sound we recognize as rock music today. Songs like "Maybellene", "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music", and "Johnny B. Goode", would transform the shape of popular music forever. His work would inspire a generation of guitarists, including Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Yardbirds, The Beach Boys, AC/DC, The Kinks, David Bowie, and Buddy Holly. Berry’s work would influence the music of the most influential musicians of the modern era, making him perhaps, one of the most influential musicians of all time.

Berry is best known as a guitarist who brought electric performances and a magnetic stage presence. In many ways he is the first rock star, though the term had yet to be coined. Wildly ahead of his time, Berry played with the greatest blues musicians of his time including Muddy Waters, T-Bone, and Johnnie Johnson.

Berry passed away in 2017, from a cardiac arrest. He was found unresponsive in this home and was pronounced dead at the scene when paramedics arrived. The legend was 90 years old and had amassed a net worth of $10 Million. Berry is included in several of Rolling Stone magazine's "greatest of all time" lists; he was ranked fifth on its 2004 and 2011 lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" is the only rock-and-roll song included on the Voyager Golden Record.