07 January 1964 – BBC Saturday Club program – Beatles recorded “Johnny B. Goode.”

The Beatles recorded a version of Chuck Berry’s rock ‘n’ roll classic Johnny B Goode in 1964, for the BBC radio show Saturday Club.

Chuck Berry was another massive influence with Johnny B Goode. We’d go up to John’s bedroom with his little record player and listen to Chuck Berry records, trying to learn them.

In the Fifties, when people were virtually singing about nothing, Chuck Berry was writing social-comment songs, with incredible metre to the lyrics. When I hear rock, good rock, of the calibre of Chuck Berry, I just fall apart and I have no other interest in life. The world could be ending if rock ‘n’ roll is playing.