Brian Wilson on Chuck Berry: 'He Taught Me How to Write Rock'

Brian Wilson was backstage Saturday night, waiting to perform at Indio, California's Fantasy Springs Resort Casino for his Pet Sounds 50th anniversary tour, when he heard that one of his idols, Chuck Berry, had died. "I was shocked by it and it kind of scared me," he tells Rolling Stone. "I don't know why it scared me, but it was just a shock." On Sunday, he says he's still taking the news "pretty rough."
For Wilson, Berry was an important inspiration for some of the first music he wrote ov