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Chuck Berry’s 1958 single Johnny B Goode is almost certainly the song that we’d play to aliens from a distant galaxy in order to demonstrate the concept of rock ‘n’ roll .

It matters not that Chuck lifted the intro riff wholesale from Louis Jordan’s 1948 release Ain’t That Just Like A Woman - as Oscar Wilde once said, “talent borrows, genius steals.” And since 1985, whole generations of kids have been inspired to pick up guitars by Johnny B Goode as performed by Marty McFly.

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