Gene Simmons Pays Tribute to Chuck Berry at First-Ever Solo Concert

Gene Simmons paid tribute to rock pioneer Chuck Berry by adding an impromptu version of “Johnny B. Goode” to the setlist during the Kiss star’s first-ever full-length solo concert in Cleveland last night.

“It’s a very sad day today,” Simmons noted near the end of an otherwise loose and lively 17-song, hour and forty minute show. “One of the founding fathers of rock and roll has passed on… if it wasn’t for Chuck Berry there wouldn’t have been rock and roll.”