![LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 09: Phil Chess attends the Recording Academy's Special Merit Awards ceremony held at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre on February 9, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jonathan Leibson/WireImage)]()
Just one day after Chuck Berry's
90th birthday, the man that gave Berry his start for an
incredible run of genre-birthing hits, Phil Chess, has died at 95. Chess and his brother Leonard changed the name of Aristocrat Records to Chess Records in 1950 after Leonard had been a partner there for two …
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