Chuck Berry The Great Twenty-Eight (2 LP)

Reissued On Double LP!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 51/500!
The Great Twenty-Eight is a compilation album by American musician Chuck Berry, released in 1982 on Chess Records. In 2003, the album was ranked number 21 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list, the second-highest ranking compilation on the list after The Sun Sessions by Elvis Presley. It was ranked number 51 in the 2020 reboot of the list.
Out of print for many years, the compilation was reissued on vinyl by Geffen Records on August 4, 2017, five months after his death. All of its 28 tracks can be found on the 2000 Anthology two-disc set. Geffen later announced a 'Super Deluxe Edition' vinyl reissue, containing the original album, a new compilation 'More Great Chuck Berry', a live album 'Oh Yeah! Live In Detroit', recorded in 1963, and a 10" EP called 'Berry Christmas'.
A survey of Berry's first decade of recording on Chess Records, it contains 21 singles along with six of their B-sides and one album track from Chuck Berry in London. Of those singles, eleven were Top 10 hits on the Billboard R&B singles chart and ten were Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
This 2LP is reissued on vinyl for the first time since its release in 1982. The collection is packed with hits & classic B-sides including Maybellene, Rock & Roll Music, Sweet Little Sixteen, School Day, Johnny B. Goode & more, from the Grammy(R) Hall of Fame that’s launched a thousand careers, Roll Over Beethoven to Wee Wee Hours, Little Queenie & Let It Rock. Also included are the original liner notes by author & rock historian Michael Lydon.
Chuck Berry records are power-packed plastic, intense sonic creations that sparkle and cut with the brilliance of diamonds. These twenty-eight, arranged in the sequence recorded and mastered from the original session tapes, are vital documents of the history they made. Chuck Berry, among the first to leap to the electric sound that disc jockey Alan Freed dubbed "rock 'n' roll", described that giant step in his music. The territory he opened up is where pop music lives today.

Features:

• 180g Vinyl
• Double LP
• Vinyl Reissue
• Gatefold jacket
• Original liner notes by author & rock historian Michael Lydon

Selections:

Side A
1. Maybellene
2. Thirty Days
3. You Can't Catch Me
4. Too Much Monkey Business
5. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
6. Roll Over Beethoven
7. Havana Moon
Side B
1. School Days
2. Rock and Roll Music
3. Oh Baby Doll
4. Reelin' And Rockin'
5. Sweet Little Sixteen
6. Johnny B. Goode
7. Around And Around
Side C
1. Carol
2. Beautiful Delilah
3. Memphis
4. Sweet Little Rock And Roller
5. Little Queenie
6. Almost Grown
7. Back In The USA
Side D
1. Let It Rock
2. Bye Bye Johnny
3. I'm Talking About You
4. Come On
5. Nadine
6. No Particular Place To Go
7. I Want To Be Your Driver