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Tributes are pouring in after the death of one of rock and roll’s earliest and most enduring icons, Chuck Berry, yesterday.
At the age of 90, Berry was reportedly found ‘unresponsive’ at his home by Missouri police, who added on Facebook that ‘first responders observed an unresponsive man and immediately administered lifesaving techniques. Unfortunately, the 90-year-old man could not be revived and was pronounced deceased at 1:26 p.m’.
Chuck Berry had been shaping more than a half century’s worth of rock and roll long before Elvis brought the revolution to the masses; some of those inspired famous names have been remembering this legacy upon his passing, Rolling Stone frontman Mick Jagger writing that he ‘lit up our teenage years, and blew life into our dreams of being musicians and performers’, while Bruce Springsteen said: