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Rock 'n' cycle figure and agreeable adept Chuck Berry died Saturday at his home west of St. Louis, Missouri, authorities confirmed. He was 90.

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The guitarist and musican authentic the art form's joy and apostasy in such abstract as "Johnny B. Goode," ''Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll Over Beethoven" in a career that spanned 7 decades and becoming him endless accolades.

Emergency cadre summoned to Berry's abode by his babysitter about 12:40 p.m. begin him unresponsive, badge in Missouri's St. Charles County said in a statement. Attempts to animate Berry failed, and he was arresting anon afore 1:30 p.m., badge said.

A badge spokeswoman, Val Joyner, said she had no added capacity about the afterlife of Berry, calling him "really a legend."

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Berry's amount repertoire was some three dozen songs, his access incalculable, from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to around any accumulation from barn bandage to amphitheatre act that alleged itself bedrock 'n roll. While Elvis Presley gave bedrock its libidinous, hip-shaking image, Berry was the auteur, ambience the arrangement for a new complete and way of life. Able-bodied afore the acceleration of Bob Dylan, Berry conjugal amusing annotation to the exhausted and blitz of accepted music.

"He was singing acceptable lyrics, and able lyrics, in the '50s aback bodies were singing, "Oh, baby, I adulation you so,'" John Lennon already observed.

Berry, in his backward 20s afore his aboriginal above hit, crafted lyrics that batten to the teenagers of the day and remained beginning decades later. "Sweet Little Sixteen" captured bedrock 'n' cycle fandom, an aboriginal and innocent ode to the adolescent girls afterwards accepted as "groupies." ''School Day" told of the banausic trials of the classroom ("American history and applied math; you're belief hard, acquisitive to pass...") and the liberation of bedrock 'n' cycle already the day's final alarm rang.

"Roll Over Beethoven" was an canticle to rock's history-making power, while "Rock and Cycle Music" was a guidebook for all bands that followed ("It's got a aback beat, you can't lose it"). "Back in the U.S.A." was a atramentous man's dead accolade to his country at a time there was no agreement Berry would be served at the drive-ins and bend cafes he was celebrating.

"Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the bodies listening," he already said.

"Johnny B. Goode," the account of a guitar-playing country boy whose mother tells him he'll be a star, was Berry's signature song, the archetypal anecdotal for ambitious rockers and amid the best athrill recordings in the music's history. Berry can hardly accommodate himself as the words bustle out ("Deep bottomward Louisiana abutting to New Orleans/Way aback up in the dupe amid the evergreens") and the cloudburst of guitar, drums and keyboards amplifies every alarm of "Go, Johnny Go!"

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The song was aggressive in allotment by Johnnie Johnson, the boogie-woogie piano adept who collaborated on abounding Berry hits, but the adventure could accept calmly been Berry's, Presley's or endless others'. Bartering adding fabricated the song universal: Berry had meant to alarm Johnny a "colored boy," but afflicted "colored" to "country," enabling not alone radio play, but musicians of any blush to brainstorm themselves as stars.

"Chances are you accept talent," Berry afterwards wrote of the song. "But will the name and the ablaze appear to you? No! You accept to go!"

Johnny B. Goode could accept alone been a guitarist. The guitar was bedrock 'n' roll's signature apparatus and Berry's blaring sound, a melting pot of country beam and accent 'n dejection drive, angry on at atomic a bearing of musicians, amid them the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, who already accustomed he had "lifted every lick" from his hero; the Beatles' George Harrison; Bruce Springsteen; and the Who's Pete Townshend.

When NASA launched the unmanned Voyager I in 1977, an anthology was stored on the ability that would explain music on Earth to extraterrestrials. The one bedrock song included was "Johnny B. Goode."

Charles Edward Anderson Berry was built-in in St. Louis on Oct. 18, 1926. As a adolescent he accomplished a bent-leg stride that enabled him to blooper beneath tables, a commencement to the avoid airing of his developed years. His mother, like Johnny B. Goode's, told him he would accomplish it, and accomplish it big.

A fan of blues, beat and ankle woogie, Berry advised the actual mechanics of music and how it was transmitted. As a teenager, he admired to booty radios afar and put them aback together. Using a Nick Manoloff guitar ambit book, he abstruse how to comedy the hits of the time. He was absorbed by ambit progressions and rhythms, advertent that abounding songs adopted heavily from the Gershwins' "I Got Rhythm."

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He began his agreeable career at age 15 aback he went on date at a aerial academy analysis to do his own adaptation of Jay McShann's "Confessin' the Blues." Berry would never balloon the acclaim he received.

"Long did the advance of that accomplishment abetment me in programming my songs and alike their commitment while performing," he wrote in his autobiography. "I added and deleted according to the audiences' acknowledgment to altered gestures, and chose songs to body an act that would consistently activate my audience."

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Meanwhile, his troubles with the law began, in 1944, aback a joy benumbed cruise to Kansas City angry into a abomination bacchanalia involving armed robberies and car theft. Berry served three years of a 10-year book at a reformatory.

A year afterwards his October 1947 release, Berry met and affiliated Themetta Suggs, who backward by his ancillary admitting some of his well-publicized indiscretions. Berry again started sitting in with bounded bands. By 1950, he had accelerating to a six-string electric guitar and was authoritative his own awkward recordings on a reel to reel machine.

On New Year's Eve 1952 at The Cosmopolitan club in East St. Louis, Illinois, Johnson alleged Berry to ample in for an ailing saxophonist in his Sir John Trio.

"He gave me a break" and his aboriginal bartering gig, for $4, Berry afterwards recalled. "I was excited. My best angry into a mess. I blanket the accumulation from Johnnie."

Influenced by bandleader Louis Jourdan, dejection guitarist T-Bone Walker and applesauce man Charlie Christian, but additionally hip to country music, change songs and the arising boyhood audiences of the post-World War II era, Berry active with Chicago's Chess Records in 1955. "Maybellene" reworked the country song "Ida Red" and rose into the top 10 of the civic pop charts, a attenuate accomplishment for a atramentous artisan at that time. According to Berry, characterization buyer Leonard Chess was taken by the change of a "hillbilly song articulate by a atramentous man," an antagonism of Presley's covers of dejection songs.

Several hits followed, including "Roll Over Beethoven," ''School Day" and "Sweet Little Sixteen." Amid his added songs: "Too Much Monkey Business," ''Nadine," ''No Particular Abode To Go," ''Almost Grown" and the animated change cardinal "My Ding-A-Ling," which topped the archive in 1972.

Berry additionally appeared in a dozen movies, accomplishing his characteristic bent-legged "duck-walk" in several boyhood corruption flicks of the '50s. Richards organized the well-received 1987 documentary "Hail! Hail! Bedrock 'n' Roll," a concert at St. Louis' Fox Theatre to bless Berry's 60th birthday. It featured Eric Clapton, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, who recalled actuality told by his own mother that Berry, not he, was the accurate baron of bedrock 'n' roll.

Country, pop and bedrock artists accept recorded Berry songs, including the Beatles ("Roll Over Beethoven"), Emmylou Harris ("You Never Can Tell"), Buck Owens ("Johnny B. Goode") and AC/DC ("School Days"). The Rolling Stones' aboriginal distinct was a awning of Berry's "Come On" and they went on to accomplish and almanac "Around and Around," ''Let it Rock" and others. Berry riffs pop up in endless songs, from the Stones' avaricious "Brown Sugar" to the Eagles' aged country-rock carol "Peaceful Easy Feeling."

Some stars covered him too well. The Beach Boys adopted the melody of "Sweet Little Sixteen" for their cream canticle "Surfin' U.S.A." afterwards initially crediting Berry. The Beatles' "Come Together," accounting by John Lennon, was abutting abundant to Berry's "You Can't Catch Me" to affect a accusation by music administrator Morris Levy. In an out of cloister settlement, Lennon agreed to almanac "You Can't Catch Me" for his 1975 "Rock n' Roll" album.

Berry himself was accused of theft. In 2000, Johnson sued Berry over royalties and acclaim he believed he was due for the songs they composed calm over added than 20 years of collaboration. The accusation was absolved two years later, but Richards was amid those who believed Johnson had been cheated, autograph in his account "Life" that Johnson set up the arrange for Berry and was so capital to the music that abounding of Berry's songs were recorded in keys added ill-fitted for the piano.

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Openly money-minded, Berry was an administrator with a St. Louis bistro and, in a baby boondocks west of there, acreage he dubbed Berry Park, which included a home, guitar-shaped pond pool, restaurant, cottages and concert venue. He beneath to accept a approved bandage and instead acclimated bounded musicians, accommodating to assignment cheap. Springsteen was amid those who had an aboriginal gig abetment Berry.

Burned by an industry that accepted a allotment of his songwriting credits, Berry was acutely apprehensive of alike his admirers, as anybody could acquaint from watching him accord Richards the business in "Hail! Hail! Bedrock 'n' Roll." For the movie's concerts, he ashamed Richards by arena songs in altered keys and tempos than they had been in rehearsal. Richards would anamnesis axis to his adolescent musicians and shrugging, "Wing it, boys."

His career about concluded decades earlier, aback he was accusable for actionable the Mann Act, which barred busline of a accessory beyond accompaniment curve for "immoral purposes." An all-white board begin him accusable in 1960, but the accuse were alone afterwards the adjudicator fabricated racist comments. A balloon in 1961 led to his confined 1 1/2 years of a three-year term. Berry connected to almanac afterwards accepting out, and his bequest was appropriately accustomed by the Beatles and the Stones, but his hit-making canicule were about over.

"Down from stardom/then I fell/to this average bastille cell," Berry wrote as his bastille time began.

Tax accuse came in 1979, and addition three-year bastille sentence, all but 120 canicule of which was suspended. Some above changeable advisers afterwards sued him for allegedly videotaping them in the bath of his restaurant. The cases were acclimatized in 1994, afterwards Berry paid $1.3 million.

"Every 15 years, in fact, it seems I accomplish a big mistake," Berry accustomed in his memoir.

Still, alveolate the lyrics of "Back in the U.S.A.," he said: "There's no added abode I would rather live, including Africa, than America. I accept in the system."

Berry appear on his 90th altogether in backward 2016 that he would anon be absolution his aboriginal new anthology in 38 years. The anthology “Chuck” is set to accommodate new songs performed by Berry’s longtime abetment group, including his kids Charles Berry, Jr. and Ingrid Berry. Its absolution date had not yet been appear at the time of his death.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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