In my new Rock Concert book, I interviewed Marshal Chess, son of Leonard Chess, who co-founded the fabled Chess label with his brother Phil. As readers of my book know, Marshal goes into great detail on the label's founding and how Chess artists such as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley came to invent rock 'n' roll in 1955. [Photo above, from left, Phil and Leonard Chess in 1968, courtesy of Getty]
Here's a BBC documentary on Chess Records and the vital role it played in the early R&B and rock 'n' roll revolution...