At the end of the live section, the recording includes the sounds of festival management trying in vain to get the audience to leave so that the next performers, Pink Floyd, can take the stage; the crowd begins chanting "We want Chuck!".

His backing band for that concert included Onnie McIntyre (guitar), Robbie McIntosh (drums), Nic Potter (bass), and Dave Kaffinetti (piano).

William Ruhlmann of AllMusic retrospectively called the album Chuck Berry's "commercial, if not artistic, peak".

[3] Robert Christgau thinks the album is of bad quality, that his voice is croaky and the studio material only fillers.

[8] The album was not even out for a month, when on October 27, 1972, The London Chuck Berry Sessions was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America with sales of 1,000,000 units.