On this week’s episode of Yesterday’s News Today, Baby Huey and Chasta honor the great Chuck Berry, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 90:

Chuck Berry’s death

Chuck Berry served as one of the most groundbreaking rock ‘n roll icons, according to The New York Times:

Mr. Berry was its master theorist and conceptual genius, the songwriter who understood what the kids wanted before they knew themselves. With songs like “Johnny B. Goode” and “Roll Over Beethoven,” he gave his listeners more than they knew they were getting from jukebox entertainment. His guitar lines wired the lean twang of country and the bite of the blues into phrases with both a streamlined trajectory and a long memory. And tucked into the lighthearted, telegraphic narratives that he sang with such clear enunciation was a sly defiance, upending convention to claim the pleasures of the moment.

TMZ released the news this morning that he died of natural causes:

We’re told Berry’s personal doctor will sign off on the death certificate that the cause of death was natural, and there will be no autopsy. By the way, various diseases would still classify the cause of death as “natural.” Police responded to a medical emergency Saturday at Berry’s home 45 miles from St. Louis. Attempts to resuscitate the 90-year-old legend were unsuccessful.

Fellow musicians like Paul McCartney released tweets after Berry’s death commemorating his influence and success:

Chuck Berry sadly passed away over the weekend. He was one of rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest poets. He will be missed but remembered by everyone who ever loved rock ‘n’ roll.