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FILE - In this Saturday, March 28, 2009 file photo, American guitarist, singer and songwriter Chuck Berry performs during the &quot;Rose Ball&quot; in Monaco. On Saturday, March 18, 2017, police in Missouri said Berry has died at age 90. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

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Frances Johnson, widow of jazz and blues pianist Johnnie Johnson, holds up the Congressional Gold Medal that was awarded to her late husband on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, during a ceremony at the National Blues Museum in downtown St. Louis. Johnnie Johnson died in St. Louis in 2005. ( J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Musician Johnnie Johnson gets Congressional Gold Medal

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