I know what you are saying, and it’s too bad, for America. In my view, Chuck Berry was a genius musically and lyrically. I am amazed at the complexity of the lyrics, like “School Days”, sheer genius. He used words with multiple syllables, used words that one would never expect to hear in a rock and roll song, let alone coming from the mouth of a black man from St. Louis, Missouri.
He is far more influential than Springsteen could ever hope to be, in my view.
Chuck Berry found impressionable fans in The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, and others. Each who sounded nothing like the other band.
Who did Bruce Springsteen begat? John Cougar Mellencamp?
By the way, Bruce seemed most successful when he was writing songs for other musicians (but he always took them back). Fire was written for Link Wray. Hungry Heart was written for the Ramones.
And we all know now that Courtney Cox was a plant in the audience when she danced on stage with Bruuuce in that Dancing in the Dark music video from the 1980s.