Hail! Hail! Top 10 songs inspired by Chuck Berry

From the Beatles and Beach Boys to Motörhead, the biggest names in music were so influenced by Berry they sometimes had to give him a writing credit. Here are the songs that owe a debt to the father of rock’n’roll

• Read Berry’s obituary
  
• Chuck Berry – a career and life in pictures

As Berry observed in Jet Lag magazine in 1980: “These guys remind me of myself when I first started. I only knew three chords, too.” Lots of punk was Chuck Berry, beefed up to the point of absurdity.