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(Redirected from Bio (Chuck Berry album)) 1973 studio album by Chuck Berry

Bio

Studio album by Chuck Berry

Released

August 1973

Recorded

March – May 1973

Studio

Sound Exchange Studios, New York City; Technisonic Studios, St. Louis, Missouri

Genre

Rock and roll

Length

32:38

Chuck Berry chronology

The London Chuck Berry Sessions
(1972)

Bio
(1973)

Chuck Berry
(1975)

Singles from Bio

"Bio"
Released: 1973

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Christgau's Record Guide	D+

Bio is the seventeenth studio album by Chuck Berry, released in 1973 by Chess Records. The backing musicians were Elephants Memory, except on "Rain Eyes" and "Got It and Gone".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Chuck Berry.

"Bio" – 4:25
"Hello Little Girl, Goodbye" – 3:56
"Woodpecker" – 3:33
"Rain Eyes" – 3:47
"Aimlessly Driftin'" – 5:42
"Got It and Gone" – 4:19
"Talkin' About My Buddy" – 6:56

Personnel

Chuck Berry – guitar, piano, vocals

Elephants Memory

Wayne "Tex" Gabriel – guitar
Gary Van Scyoc – bass
Adam Ippolito – piano
Rick Frank – drums
Stan Bronstein – saxophone

Additional musicians

Billy Peek – guitar on "Rain Eyes" and "Got It and Gone"
Greg Edick – bass on "Rain Eyes" and "Got It and Gone"
Ron Reed – drums on "Rain Eyes" and "Got It and Gone"

Technical

Esmond Edwards – producer
Bob Scerbo – production manager
David Krieger – art direction

Release

Cassette Bio Universal Special Products 1995
CD Bio Universal Distribution / Universal Japan 2010
Cassette Bio Chess Special Products

References

"AllMusic Review - Bio". AllMusic. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: B". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 21, 2019.

External links

Bio at Discogs (list of releases)

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Studio albums	After School Session (1957) One Dozen Berrys (1958) Berry Is on Top (1959) Rockin' at the Hops (1960) New Juke Box Hits (1961) Two Great Guitars (with Bo Diddley) (1964) St. Louis to Liverpool (1964) Chuck Berry in London (1965) Fresh Berry's (1965) Chuck Berry's Golden Hits (1967) Chuck Berry in Memphis (1967) From St. Louie to Frisco (1968) Concerto in "B Goode" (1969) Back Home (1970) San Francisco Dues (1971) The London Chuck Berry Sessions (1972) (Side 1) Bio (1973) Chuck Berry (1975) Rockit (1979) Chuck (2017)
Live albums	Chuck Berry on Stage (1963) Live at the Fillmore Auditorium (1967) The London Chuck Berry Sessions (1972) (Side 2) Chuck Berry Live in Concert (1978) Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987) Live! (2000) Live on Stage (2000) Chuck Berry – In Concert (2002)
Compilations	Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956) Chuck Berry Twist (1962) Chuck Berry's Golden Decade (1967, 1973, 1974) The Great Twenty-Eight (1982) The Chess Box (1988) The Anthology (2000) Volume 2 (1995)
Singles	"Maybellene" / "Wee Wee Hours" (1955) "Roll Over Beethoven" / "Drifting Heart" (1956) "Too Much Monkey Business" / "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (1956) "School Days" / "Deep Feeling" (1957) "Rock and Roll Music" / "Blue Feeling" "Sweet Little Sixteen" / "Reelin' and Rockin'" (1958) "Carol"/ "Hey Pedro" (1958) "Johnny B. Goode" / "Around and Around" (1958) "Run Rudolph Run" (1958) "Almost Grown" / "Little Queenie" (1959) "Back in the U.S.A." / "Memphis, Tennessee" (1959) "Nadine" (1964) "No Particular Place to Go" (1964) "My Ding-a-Ling" (1972)
Other articles	Discography Chuck Berry House Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll Chess Records Johnnie Johnson Gibson ES-350T Gibson ES-355
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