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"Berry was married with a kid and held a succession of joe jobs before his gigs playing the blues in local St. Louis bands turned into anything more than a hobby. Credit pianist Johnnie Johnson for the push: Berry started playing with Johnson&amp;apos;s trio in 1953 after the group&amp;apos;s regular guitarist fell ill. Thanks to Berry&amp;apos;s knack for showmanship and his fast-improving guitar skills, the sideman soon became the bandleader, and signed to Chess Records in 1955. That&amp;apos;s Johnson playing piano on Berry&amp;apos;s first single, &amp;quot;Maybellene,&amp;quot; which topped the R&amp;amp;B chart the same year."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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