By Ralph Ellis, Todd
Leopold and Tony Marco, CNN
(CNN)Chuck Berry, a music
pioneer often called "the Father of Rock 'n' Roll," died Saturday at
his home outside St. Louis, his verified Facebook page said. He was 90.
A post on the St. Charles
County police Facebook page said officers responded to a medical emergency at
the residence around 12:40 p.m. (1:40 p.m. ET) Saturday and found an
unresponsive man inside. Resuscitation efforts failed.
"The St. Charles
County Police Department sadly confirms the death of Charles Edward Anderson
Berry Sr., better known as legendary musician Chuck Berry."
Berry wrote and recorded
"Johnny B. Goode" and "Sweet Little Sixteen" -- songs every
garage band and fledgling guitarist had to learn if they wanted to enter the
rock 'n' roll fellowship.
Berry took all-night
hamburger stands, brown-eyed handsome men and V-8 Fords and turned them into
the stuff of American poetry. By doing so, he gave rise to followers beyond
number, bar-band disciples of the electric guitar, who carried his musical
message to the far corners of the Earth.
Some of his most famous
followers praised him on social media.
Bruce Springsteen tweeted:
"Chuck Berry was rock's greatest practitioner, guitarist, and the greatest
pure rock 'n' roll writer who ever lived."
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