'The Rough Guide to Chuck Berry' is a collection of twenty-seven unforgettable hits, all recorded in six momentous years between 1955 and 1960. Includes Chuck's most legendary hits "Johnny B. Goode", "Rock and Roll Music" and "Roll Over Beethoven".

Chuck Berry was ranked by Rolling Stone Magazine as number 5 in its list of "100 Greatest Artists" and one of the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, John Lennon once noted "If you tried to give rock 'n' roll a name, you might call it Chuck Berry". Whilst Keith Richards admitted "I've stolen every lick he ever played". Bob Dylan dubbed him "the Shakespeare of rock 'n' roll" and rock's poet laureate Leonard Cohen reckoned that every lyric writer who has followed has merely offered "footnotes to the words of Chuck Berry".