Chuck Berry

The true founding father of rock and roll guitar, Chuck Berry created the template from which every subsequent rock guitarist built — the double-string bends, the duck-walk stage moves, and the driving boogie rhythms that fused country and blues into a new art form between 1955 and 1970. His Gibson ES-335 riffs on Johnny B. Goode, Maybellene, and Roll Over Beethoven provided the vocabulary that Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon all admitted was the DNA of the British Invasion. Keith Richards called him 'the man who invented rock and roll guitar.'