The song, adapted from ( and eventually entirely credited to ) Chuck Berry, is widely seen as emblematic of the early 1960s American rock cultural experience.

The film was directed by Lindsay Anderson, his final feature film, and the screenplay was adapted by David Berry from his own play.

In 2002, Variety magazine reported that Sidney Lumet had adapted a remake of The Set-Up, which he would direct ; Benjamin Bratt was to star as the boxer, with James Gandolfini also attached and Halle Berry in negotiations.

" Maybellene " is a song recorded by Chuck Berry, adapted from the traditional fiddle tune " Ida Red " that tells the story of a hot rod race and a broken romance.

Following the success of the operetta in Vienna, productions of the work, under the name A Waltz Dream, were mounted in English for premieres at the Chestnut Street Opera House in Philadelphia on 6 January 1908, in New York City on 27 January 1908 ( with an English libretto adapted by Joseph Herbert ), and in London on 28 March 1908 at the Hicks Theatre ( adapted by Basil Hood, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, starring Gertie Millar, W. H. Berry and later Robert Evett, Jessie Broughton and Arthur Williams ).

* Wild Blessings: A Celebration of Wendell Berry adapted for the stage by Marc Masterson and Adrien-Alice Hansel, original music by Malcolm Dalglish

The controversy included highly publicized disputes between listener organizations and Mary Frances Berry, a former chairwoman of the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, who chaired the corporation's board at the time.

At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Berry joined the Confederate Army and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant with the 16th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.

According to Mary Frances Berry, the 10-year chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Whiteclay can be said to exist only to sell beer to the Oglala Lakota.

Born in poverty in Maysville, Kentucky on November 5, 1905, Ted Berry overcame great obstacles to achieve personal success and gain a national reputation as a leader in the Civil Rights movement.

From 1947 to 1961, Berry served on the NAACP Ohio Committee for Civil Rights Legislation where he worked on equal employment and fair housing issues.

Mary Frances Berry ( born February 17, 1938 ) is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

In 1987, Berry took a tenured chair at the University of Pennsylvania, while continuing to serve on the Civil Rights Commission.

" In 1993, Berry was also appointed chair of the Civil Rights Commission by President Bill Clinton, who reappointed her for another term in 1999.

Separately from her work on the Civil Rights Commission, Berry was named chair of the Pacifica Radio Foundation's National Board in June 1997.

Joseph Berry Breck ( 1830 – 26 July 1865 ) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

In 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, Berry Hendry was a prosperous cattle rancher with eight slaves.

Thomas Berry, a veteran of the Mexican-American War and American Civil War, and Frances Margaret Rhea, a daughter of an Alabama planter.

* James Berry ( Major-General ) ( died 1691 ), Parliamentary Major-General who fought in the English Civil War

The 3rd baronet, in whose time the family seat at Berry Pomeroy was plundered and burnt by the Roundheads, had a younger brother Henry ( 1612-1686 ), who was a close personal attendant of Prince Charles during the Civil War, and bore the prince's last message to his father, Charles I, before the latter's execution.

* Henry Berry Lowrie, an Indian from " Scuffletown ," who, during the post-Civil War years, appropriated white Revolutionary doctrine to gain rights and freedoms that were being denied to Indians in the Pembroke area, as well as throughout Robeson County.

* Jason Berry, Jonathan Foose, Tad Jones, Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II.

Berry, however, dropped out of high school in the eleventh grade to become a professional boxer in hopes of becoming rich quick, a career he followed until 1950 when he was drafted by the United States Army for the Korean War.

Tennessee National Guard facilities at Berry Field during World War 2.

Aldershot was the hometown of one of English football's most famous players of the post Second World War era-Johnny Berry, who was born in the town in 1926.

Wyatt was named after his father's commanding officer in the Mexican-American War, Captain Wyatt Berry Stapp, of the 2nd Company Illinois Mounted Volunteers.

Farley is the author of the fact-based novel Kingston by Starlight, the novel My Favorite War ; and biographies Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley ; Aaliyah, More Than a Woman ; Introducing Halle Berry ; and is a co-author of Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues, A Musical Journey.

His non-fiction books are: Trials and Triumphs: The Story of African-Canadians ( 1993 ), Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association ( 1996 ), Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada ( 2001 ), and The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq, with Joshua Key ( 2007 ).

On February 10, 1968 Berry delivered " A Statement Against the War in Vietnam " during the Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft at the University of Kentucky in Lexington:

The Port William stories allow Berry to explore the human dimensions of the decline of the family farm and farm community, under the influence of expanding post-World War II agribusiness.

Jones served in the United States Navy during the Korean War, and after his discharge worked at the Bird Cage Theater at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California.

During World War II, Berry worked in the Office of War Information as a morale officer.

In World War I, Berry participated in the American Expeditionary Force with the rank of major, serving overseas 1918-1919, and then returned home to resume active leadership of his union.

Pension records for veterans of the American Revolutionary War in Robeson County listed men with surnames later associated with Lumbee families, such as Samuel Bell, Jacob Locklear, John Brooks, Berry Hunt, Thomas Jacobs, Thomas Cummings, and Michael Revels.

After the War Berry became an art teacher.

* Ken Berry, ( 1953-1955 ) Dancer, Actor, Singer, was in the Artillery and Special Services divisions at the close of the Korean War.

Dongan Hills was one of the first Staten Island neighborhoods to witness an upsurge in home construction after World War II, as many small, one-family homes were built there during the 1950s, and the city also built a public housing project in the community ; known as the General Berry Houses, it is the southernmost public housing project on Staten Island.

Berry made his fortune with the publication of the World War I magazine The War Illustrated, which at its peak had a circulation of 750, 000.

The close association with environmental determinism and the freezing of political boundaries during the Cold War led to a considerable decline in the importance of political geography which was described by Brian Berry in 1968 as ' a moribund backwater '.

At the urging of Leonard Chess at Chess Records, Chuck Berry had reworked a country fiddle tune with a long history, entitled " Ida Red ".

The Chess brothers liked the tune and soon the trio were in Chicago recording " Maybellene " and " Wee Wee Hours " – a song Johnson had been playing as an instrumental for years for which Berry quickly penned some lyrics.

The A-Side, " Gonna Have A Good Time Tonight " was a cover of an Easybeats tune ; the B-side, " Narrator ," was a Bill Berry composition that R. E. M.

With encouragement from Muddy Waters, Berry in 1955 brought to Chess Records a tape of his cover of Bob Wills ' version of the tune which he had renamed “ Ida May ” and a blues song he wrote “ Wee Wee Hours ”, which he stated was inspired by Joe Turner ’ s “ Wee Baby Blue ”.

* " Learning Is Good " to the tune of " Johnny B. Goode " by Chuck Berry