In 1969, Leonard sold Chess Records, and not long afterwards ... The Chess Records story also inspired two 2008 feature films, Cadillac Records and Who Do You Love, and the label’s classic recordings ...

"Cadillac Records" follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.

the son of a sharecropper who heads north to Chicago and can’t quite believe the change in his fortunes when Chess shakes his hand and presses the keys to a brand new Cadillac into his palm.

In 1950s Chicago, ambitious Leonard Chess is at the helm of a small blues recording studio, hoping to launch careers - if the musicians can avoid getting swept up in a life of sex, drugs ...