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Xinhua News Agency, Chicago, March 18 (Reporter Chen Cong) The St. Louis police in Missouri, the United States, said on the 18th that Chuck Berry, an American musician known as the “Father of Rock and Roll”, died at his home in St. Louis, Missouri, on Saturday at the age of 90.
“The St. Charles County Police Department is sad to confirm the death of Charles Edward Anderson Berry I, better known as legendary musician Chuck Berry,” the St. Charles County Police Department posted on its Facebook page.
Emergency crews arrived at Berry’s home around noon on Saturday and found him unconscious, police said. Despite the efforts of emergency crews, Berry did not regain consciousness and was pronounced dead at 1:26 p.m. (18:16 GMT), police said.
Berry was one of the first star guitarists and songwriters to emerge in the 1950s, and the writer and singer of such rock classics as “Johnny B. Goode,” “Sweet Little Sixteen” and “Roll Over Beethoven.”
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