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Who has died aged 90, was rock’n’roll’s first guitar hero and poet. Never wild, but always savvy, Berry helped define the music. His material fused insistent tunes with highly distinctive lyrics that celebrated with deft wit and loving detail the glories of 1950s US teen consumerism.

His first single, Maybellene,began life as “country music”, by which Berry meant country blues, but revamped, on the great postwar Chicago label Chess in 1955. It was not only rock’n’roll but the perfect indicator of just what riches its singer-songwriter would bring to the form. Bruce Springsteen and Chuck Berry perform ‘Johnny B. Good’ in 1995 at Cleveland Stadium. Photograph: Reuters Starting with a race between a Cadillac and a Ford, told from the Ford-owner’s, and therefore the underdog’s, viewpoint, this immeasurably influential debut record featured one of the most famous opening verses in popular music: “As I was motorvatin’ over the hill / I saw Maybellene in a Coup de Ville.” Here, out of nowhere, was the enticing combination of an instantly recognisable, fresh guitar (“just like a-ringin’ the bell,” as he would soon put it), a blow-by-blow narrative, a relish of brand-name detail, and a slyly innocent joy at being so au fait with such detail.

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These would be the hallmarks of almost all Berry’s best work. So would the seamless match of words to melodic line.

This technical panache was part of his humour. Take the opening lines of Nadine (1964): “As I got on a city bus and found a vacant seat / I thought I saw my future bride walkin’ up the street / I shouted to the driver, ‘Hey conductor! You must / Slow down, I think I see her: please, let me off this bus!’ / ‘Nadine! Honey, is that you?” The wonderfully lively, perfect fit of street-talk to music avoids mere automatic chug-a-chug-a-chug, showing off the true poet’s touch as the rhythm enacts the plea that “you must pause slow down.”. “My childhood was not so good. My parents were getting divorced.” An artist with wit Here, right from the outset, was an artist with wit, the very quality supposed to belong only to the music that rock’n’roll displaced. And Berry never paraded cleverness for its own sake but always in energetic celebration of life.

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The Everly Brothers would master teenage-bedroom angst, but Berry proclaimed the upside of modern adolescence - although he was already 19 by the end of the second World War, and turning 30 by the time he began singing about high-school romance. Berry’s music was, as the critic Tom Zito observed, “not so much black as American”. In 1972 came My Ding-A-Ling, a smutty song wholly lacking Berry’s usual artistry. He topped the charts at last, at the age of 46. By then Berry’s eulogies of Americana (“I’m so glad I’m living in the USA.

Where hamburgers sizzle on an open griddle night and day. Anything you want they got it right here in the USA”) had long been deeply unfashionable, as the Beatles had noted with their sardonic Back in the USSR. Right from the outset, Berry was an artist with wit, the very quality supposed to belong only to the music that rock’n’roll displaced. Photograph: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns Yet Berry’s huge influence - out of all proportion to the modest chart placings of his crucial records - remained tangible throughout the 1960s and beyond, both generally and in particular, as upon the Beach Boys ( Surfin’ USA), the Beatles ( Get Back), the Rolling Stones ( Come On was their first single, Maybellene the vocal model for Jagger), ( Too Much Monkey Business engendered Subterranean Homesick Blues) and right on through to rap. Trademark duck walk Berry left Chess for Mercury in 1966 but soon came back, and though his mid-1970s album Bio used John Lennon’s band Elephant’s Memory, the material looked back to pre-rock days. Motorvatin’ was a UK Top 10 album in 1977. Berry continued to perform live, either side of another prison term in 1979 (four months for income tax evasion), famously demanding cash upfront, arriving at the last possible moment, using local backing groups with whom he declined to soundcheck, and often showing truculence on stage.

His autobiography revealed a man with no need of a ghostwriter, no self-serving whinges and a strong sense of black history. This notoriety misled, as the 1987 documentary film Hail! Over 30 years after his film debut in Rock, Rock, Rock!, he was still obliging with his trademark duck walk and coaxing those lazily bent notes from his beautiful scarlet Gibson guitar, his alert grace intact. And some indifferent concerts were the price paid for genuinely spontaneous performance that on other nights yielded moments of magical reinvention and creative musicianship. Later life His 1987 book Chuck Berry: The Autobiography revealed a man with no need of a ghostwriter, no self-serving whinges and a strong sense of black history.

He continued to age remarkably well, despite recurrent ill-health. Performing in front of 10,000 people at the age of 83 at the 2010 Viva Las Vegas open-air concert, he was lithe, challenging his back-up musicians by a spontaneous reshaping of the pace and delivery of his classic songs, and giving good value to the audience, some of whom were young enough to be his great-grandchildren.

Chuck Berry performed once a month at a restaurant in St Louis, Blueberry Hill, until 2014. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA He performed once a month at a restaurant in St Louis, Blueberry Hill, until 2014, the year in which he was awarded the Polar music prize, and intermittently thereafter. Among other honours, he received a Grammy lifetime achievement award in 1984, and a Kennedy Center Honor in 2000. He is survived by his wife Themetta “Toddy” Suggs, whom he married in 1948, and four children, Ingrid, Chuck junior, Aloha and Melody.

Chuck Berry (Charles Edward Anderson Berry), guitarist, singer and songwriter, born October 18th, 1926; died March 18th, 2017 The Guardian.

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. Part of the book series (DIPR, volume 39) Abstract With the addition of six woolly monkeys to its colony in the mid-1980s, the Louisville Zoo began a decade of successful breeding with 21 live births. We also initiated a systematic study of behavioral and environmental correlates of urinary cortisol excretion with the goal of understanding factors that contribute to hypertension in captive woolly monkeys. Urinary cortisol had a curvilinear relationship with social standing as measured by scream incidents. Cortisol was higher in females than males.

Cortisol increased as females approached the normal term of their pregnancies. Three breeding females showed an association between cortisol and visitors, which may be confounded by ambient temperature. Otherwise, season, age, and housing condition (bachelor, breeding, mixed nonbreeding) did not affect cortisol excretion. Several varieties of social greetings were observed during calm interactions as well as after conflicts.

Proximity among individuals reflected matrilineal grouping for mother-raised monkeys. Species-typical behaviors such as chest rubbing, predation, and social greetings were consistent with these behaviors as described in wild populations. Acknowledgments This work was supported by the Louisville Zoo, Centre College, The Nixon-Grifiths Fund for Zoological Research (New York Zoological Society), Kentucky EPSCoR Visiting Scholar Grant, and the Institute of Museum Services, a United States federal agency that offers conservation project support to the nation’s museums.

We also appreciate the assistance of numerous Centre College students and faculty who assisted with observations, assays, and analyses. We thank keepers, administrators, and veterinary staff at the Louisville Zoo.