DEATHS
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame pianist Johnnie Johnson, 80, often credited as the inspiration for Chuck Berry's classic ''Johnny B Goode,'' of natural causes, April 13, near St. Louis. . .Former Jack Paar Show orchestra conductor José Melis, 85, of undisclosed causes, April 7, in Sun City, Ariz. . .New Yorker scribe Faith McNulty, 86, author of 1980's best-selling The Burning Bed, which was made into a 1984 TV movie starring Farrah Fawcett, of a stroke, April 10, in Wakefield, R.I. . . John Fred and His Playboy Band frontman John Fred Gourrier, 63, who scored a hit in 1968 with ''Judy in Disguise (With Glasses),'' a play on the Beatles' ''Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,'' of complications from a kidney transplant, April 15, in New Orleans.
