Ten-Inch Vintage Delight

 

15 October, 1986

 

Mr. Chuck Berry

c/o Mr. Nick Miranda

12825 Four Winds Farm Drive

St. Louis, MO 63131

 

Dear Chuck Berry,

 

When they tell your music will live forever, you can usually be sure they’re exaggerating. But Johnny B. Goode is on the Voyager Interstellar records attached to NASA’s Voyager spacecraft - - now two billion light years from Earth and bound for the stars. These records will last a billion years or more.

Happy 60th birthday, with our admiration for the music you have given this world.

Go, Johnny, go.

 

Ann Druyan

Carl Sagan

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

On behalf of the

Voyager Interstellar

Record Committee