Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty-Eight

Super Deluxe Edition 4LP and 1EP box set!

"The Greatest Hits" album of all time is now greater!

Original 2LP collection plus additional hits, B-sides, rare comeback album, "Rudolph-red" vinyl Christmas EP and more!

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time — rated 21/500!

In a consistently innovative recording career that spanned more than 60 years, the iconic singer /songwriter / guitarist, laid much of the groundwork for modern rock 'n' roll, while creating some of rock's most distinctive and enduring anthems, from "Johnny B. Goode" to "Roll Over Beethoven," to "Rock and Roll Music" and many more. To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the immortal spirit of Chuck Berry, Universal Music Enterprieses presents the ultimate vinyl version of his landmark greatest hits compilation.

The collection is packed with hits and classic B-sides including "Maybellene," "Rock & Roll Music," "Sweet Little Sixteen," "School Day," "Johnny B. Goode" and more, from the Grammy Hall of Fame that’s launched a thousand careers, "Roll Over Beethoven" to "Wee Wee Hours," "Little Queenie" and "Let It Rock." Also included are the original liner notes by author and rock historian Michael Lydon.

The Great Twenty-Eight: Super Deluxe Edition is housed in a textured box, with the original two-LP compilation augmented by two additional albums and an EP. More Great Chuck Berry features 14 further hits, rarities and B-sides by the great man, while a rare live release, Oh Yeah! Live In Detroit, recorded in 1963, will be making its vinyl debut.

The collection is completed by the newly-created 10-inch EP, Berry Christmas, featuring four of his festive songs on "Rudolph-Red" vinyl. "Run Rudolph Run," "Merry Christmas Baby" and "Christmas" are joined on the disc by "Spending Christmas," also making its first appearance on vinyl.

The super deluxe edition also includes a handsome 12" x 12" book, with an introductory essay by Keith Richards and a new essay by bestselling author and SiriusXM host Alan Light, to complement Michael Lydon's liner notes from the original version of the retrospective. There are also reminiscences from DJ Lee Alan, plus Berry's complete U.S. single, album and EP discographies, reproductions of Berry's original LP cover art and rarely-seen photographs.

Features:
• Super Deluxe Edition
• 4LP & 1EP Box Set
• Housed in a textured box with Chuck's name in debossed lettering on top and sides
• The Great Twenty-Eight original 2LP collection
• More Great Chuck Berry, with additional hits and B-sides
• Oh Yeah! Live In Detroit, a rare comeback album that sat unreleased for 46 years (first time on vinyl)
• Berry Christmas, a newly-created holiday EP on Rudolph-red vinyl
• 12"x12" booklet with introductory essay by Keith Richards, new liner notes by rock authority Alan Light, archival photos, a Chuck discography and more

The original classic 2-LP compilation

Side 1

1. Maybellene

2. Thirty Days (To Come Back Home)

3. You Can't Catch Me

4. Too Much Monkey Business

5. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man

6. Roll Over Beethoven

7. Havana Moon

Side 2

1. School Day (Ring! Ring! Goes The Bell)

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 3

1. Carol

2. Beautiful Delilah

3. Memphis, Tennessee

4. Sweet Little Rock And Roller

5. Little Queenie

6. Almost Grown

7. Back In The U.S.A.

Side 4

1. Let It Rock

2. Bye Bye Johnny

3. I'm Talking About You

4. Come On

5. Nadine (Is It You?)

6. No Particular Place To Go

7. I Want To Be Your Driver

LP 3: More Great Chuck Berry

Side 1

1. Wee Wee Hours

2. No Money Down

3. Drifting Heart

4. La Jaunda (Español)

5. Blue Feeling

6. Vacation Time

7. Joe Joe Gun

Side 2

1. Too Pooped To Pop "Casey"

2. Our Little Rendezvous

3. You Never Can Tell

4. Promised Land

5. Little Marie

6. Dear Dad

7. My Ding-A-Ling (live single version)

LP 4: Oh Yeah! Live In Detroit

Recorded at the Walled Lake Casino, October 25 & 26, 1963 - First time on vinyl - *First U.S. release

Side 1

1. Guitar Boogie

2. Let It Rock

3. Almost Grown

4. Chuck Berry Dialogue 1

5. Too Much Monkey Business*

6. Johnny B. Goode

7. Introduction / Instrumental

8. Sweet Little Sixteen

Side 2

1. Wee Wee Hours

2. Chuck Berry Dialogue 2

3. Maybellene

4. Medley: Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite/Johnny B. Goode/Let It Rock/School Day

Bonus: Berry Christmas EP

Side 1

1. Run Rudolph Run

2. Merry Christmas Baby

Side 2

1. Spending Christmas (first time on vinyl)

2. Christmas

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