Chuck Berry will always be a rock ‘n’ roll icon

Chuck Berry, the man who created the rock-star blueprint more than 50 years ago, died on Saturday at 90, according to the police department in St. Charles County, Mo.

An absolute rock icon who has no peer. His music, along with Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley, set the stage for the entire rock era that followed and still resonates today.

A titan in rock history is gone. May he keep rockin’ wherever he is. Peter Fonseca

RIP Berry and thank you. Keep playing that guitar like a ringing bell. Richard Corey I was lucky enough to see him twice, once with B.B. King. RIP. Bob Frankl

Goodbye, Berry. You were one of the greatest. I discovered that I really liked your music, and that of so many others, because you were played on the radio by DJs so often, when so many would not do so for black musicians back in the 1950s.

I still have a couple of old 45RPMs of yours. Thank you. Bill J. Herman Rock music should thank Berry for putting it on the map. Michael Younger

A real showman! You can tell Berry really enjoyed doing what he was doing. He really got into it and he could play a guitar like “ringin’ a bell.”

I love his hillbilly rock ‘n’ roll. “Maybellene” was a great song, and I thought he was so handsome! I had a crush on him.

He was a real Casonava, they say. Amanda Davis

I love Berry. It was his song “Roll Over Beethoven” played by the Beatles that made me want to play guitar and write rock ‘n’ roll music.

Rock ‘n’ roll became my life. I never had a song on the charts, but I had a lot of fun and a great life. David Gargiulo