Legacy
Berry's recording of the song was included on the Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft as representing rock and roll, one of four American songs included among many cultural achievements of humanity.
When Chuck Berry was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, he performed "Johnny B. Goode" and "Rock and Roll Music," backed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. The Hall of Fame included these songs and "Maybellene" in their list of the 500 songs that shaped Rock and Roll. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, for its influence as a rock & roll single.
In the 1985 film Back to the Future, Marty McFly with Marvin Berry and the Starlighters played the song during the "Enchantment Under the Sea" high school dance (this scene was "replayed" in Back to the Future Part II.) During Marty's Berry-esque rendition of the song, Marvin telephones his cousin Chuck, to have him hear what might be the new sound he was looking for (creating a paradoxical "who influenced whom" situation).
Episode 14, Season 2 of the former CBS military action series The Unit is titled "Johnny B. Good" in reference to the song.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)