“How’s this for weird? Chuck Berry’s only Number One pop single was not "Maybellene" or "Johnny B. Goode." It was the naughty 1972 cheeseball "My Ding-A-Ling." That freak smash, recorded live at a show in England, unfairly defined Berry’s last years at Chess, during which he made solid cruising-rhythm records with electric-country overtones such as […]”
