Chuck Berry's impact on popular music cannot be underestimated. John Lennon once commented: "If you tried to give rock-and-roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry.'" Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive. Writing clever lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism and developing a signature style that included guitar solos and showmanship, his nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll". On this LP twenty rocking number and to name a few "Maybellene," "Rock and Roll Music," "Johnny B. Goode" and "Back in the U.S.A.," a top 40 hit in 1959.