Editing Chuck Berry (section)

===1980–2017: Last years on the road===
[[File:ChuckBerry1997.jpg|thumb|left|Berry performing at the [[Long Beach Blues Festival]], August 1997]]
Berry continued to play 70 to 100 one-nighters per year in the 1980s, still traveling solo and requiring a local band to back him at each stop. In 1986, [[Taylor Hackford]] made a documentary film, ''[[Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll]]'', of a celebration concert for Berry's sixtieth birthday, organized by [[Keith Richards]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Hackford |first=Taylor |title=Rock'n'Roll Fireworks: Keith Richards and Chuck Berry Together on Stage |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/rocknroll-fireworks-keith-richards-and-chuck-berry-together-on-stage-440364.html |url-status=dead |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=March 16, 2007 |access-date=June 6, 2010 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205165400/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/rocknroll-fireworks-keith-richards-and-chuck-berry-together-on-stage-440364.html |archive-date=December 5, 2008}}</ref> [[Eric Clapton]], [[Etta James]], [[Julian Lennon]], [[Robert Cray]], and [[Linda Ronstadt]], among others, appeared with Berry on stage and in the film. During the concert, Berry played a [[Gibson ES-355]], the luxury version of the [[Gibson ES-335|ES-335]] that he favored on his 1970s tours. Richards played a black [[Fender Telecaster]] Custom, Cray a [[Fender Stratocaster]] and Clapton a Gibson ES 350T, the same model that Berry used on his early recordings.<ref name=SweetTunes/>

In the late 1980s, Berry bought the [[Southern Air Restaurant|Southern Air]], a restaurant in [[Wentzville, Missouri]].<ref name="History of Rock">{{cite news|url=http://www.history-of-rock.com/berrytwo.htm|title=Chuck Berry|publisher=history-of-rock.com|access-date=June 3, 2010|archive-date=March 4, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304205812/http://www.history-of-rock.com/berrytwo.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1982, Berry performed a television special at [[Roxy Theatre (West Hollywood)|The Roxy]] in [[West Hollywood, California|West Hollywood]] with [[Tina Turner]] as his special guest. The concert was released a year later on home video.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1780797/|title=Chuck Berry: Live at the Roxy with Tina Turner|publisher=imdb.com|access-date=October 26, 2022}}</ref> In November 2000, Berry faced legal issues when he was sued by his former pianist [[Johnnie Johnson (musician)|Johnnie Johnson]] who claimed that he had co-written over 50 songs, including "No Particular Place to Go", "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll Over Beethoven", that credit Berry alone. The case was dismissed when the judge ruled that [[Laches (equity)|too much time had passed]] since the songs were written.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rock Pioneer Johnson Dies Aged 80|publisher=[[BBC News]]|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4443831.stm|date=April 14, 2005|access-date=November 27, 2007|archive-date=June 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150606083125/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4443831.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Chuck Berry.jpg|thumb|upright|Berry performing at [[Virgin Festival]] in [[Baltimore]], August 2008]]
In 2008, Berry toured Europe, with stops in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland, and Spain. In mid-2008, he played at the [[Virgin Festival]] in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Official Concert Schedule (2008)|url=http://www.chuckberry.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2076|access-date=August 11, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080808161942/http://www.chuckberry.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2076|archive-date=August 8, 2008}}</ref> During a concert on New Year's Day 2011 in Chicago, Berry, suffering from exhaustion, passed out and had to be helped off stage.<ref>{{cite news |title=Chuck Berry Recovering at Home from Exhaustion after Chicago Show |date=January 1, 2011 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-live-0103-chuck-berry-review-20110102,0,7930886.story |access-date=January 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122232942/http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-live-0103-chuck-berry-review-20110102,0,7930886.story |archive-date=January 22, 2011 |url-status=dead }}<br /> {{cite video|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbawWMn0Q0U| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307182835/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbawWMn0Q0U| archive-date=2011-03-07 | url-status=dead|date=January 1, 2011|title=Chuck Berry Felt Ill on Stage in Chicago 01.01.2011|publisher=YouTube}} {{cite video|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMl82G-Xamw| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226113737/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMl82G-Xamw| archive-date=2013-02-26 | url-status=dead|date=January 1, 2011|title=Chuck Berry After Collapse in Chicago 01.01.2011&nbsp;– On Stage Explaining What Happened|publisher=YouTube}}</ref>

Berry lived in [[Ladue, Missouri]], approximately {{convert|10|mi}} west of St. Louis. He also had a home at "Berry Park", near Wentzville where he lived part-time since the 1950s and was the home in which he died. The home with the guitar-shaped swimming pool, is seen in scenes near the end of the film ''Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chuckberry.de/archive_october2002.htm|title=News Archive&nbsp;– October 2002|publisher=chuckberry.de|access-date=June 6, 2010|archive-date=July 16, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716120822/http://www.chuckberry.de/archive_october2002.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
When Berry performed he often required payment up front in a paper bag which he transferred to an attaché case, [[PBS]] on ''In Their Own Words'', relates. He gave interviews where he talked about having been ripped off during his early career. Thus he protected his own interests.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/video/chuck-berry-ii2qnk/ |title=Chuck Berry|publisher=PBS|date=August 6, 2022|access-date=December 18, 2024}}</ref>

He regularly performed one Wednesday each month at [[Blueberry Hill (restaurant)|Blueberry Hill]], a restaurant and bar located in the [[Delmar Loop]] neighborhood of [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], from 1996 to 2014. Berry announced on his 90th birthday that his first new studio album since ''Rockit'' in 1979, entitled ''[[Chuck (Chuck Berry album)|Chuck]]'', would be released in 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/18/chuck-berry-new-album-first-in-38-years|title=Chuck Berry, 90, announces first album in 38 years|date=October 18, 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=October 18, 2016|archive-date=October 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018160902/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/18/chuck-berry-new-album-first-in-38-years|url-status=live}}</ref> His first new record in 38 years, it includes his children, Charles Berry Jr. and Ingrid, on guitar and harmonica with songs "covering the spectrum from hard-driving rockers to soulful thought-provoking time capsules of a life's work" and dedicated to his wife Toddy.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2016/1018/Chuck-Berry-to-release-new-studio-album-at-90-video|title=Chuck Berry to release new studio album at 90|author=Beck, Christina|journal=The Christian Science Monitor|date=October 31, 2016|page=8|access-date=March 19, 2017|archive-date=March 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319111656/http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2016/1018/Chuck-Berry-to-release-new-studio-album-at-90-video|url-status=live}}</ref>