9. Chuck BerryOne Dozen Berries
There’s an album. He made about four albums that were seminal rock ‘n’ roll masterpieces. He really is the central figure of rock & roll. The songs, his style, his guitar-playing, everything, his influence… I think they were quite right to put ‘Johnny B Goode’ (from Chuck Berry Is On Top) on the spacecraft which is now heading out towards the stars, you know, Voyager – in case any aliens find it, they put all the stuff on it explaining who we were, you know, a picture of a man and a woman and a couple of mathematical formulae, stuff like that, and they also put in a copy of ‘Johnny B Goode’, which I think is a good thing to represent the human race.
