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Bo Diddley Remembered
The Daily Fix honors the late legend, Bo Diddley, for his musical and technological achievements.
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Billy Gibbons, Buddy Guy and George Thorogood remember Bo Diddley
“You can play Bo Diddley for three-year-olds who can’t speak and yet they start gyrating,” he says. I think we must be wired to respond to it and he just happened to tap into it. “You can play Bo Diddley for three-year-olds who can’t speak and yet they start gyrating,” he says. I think we must be wired to respo... more
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Bo Diddley 1928-2008
One of Rock n' Roll's godfathers is dead. Bo Diddley was widely recognized as one of a handful of musicians that brought about the transition from blues to rock and roll. Also known for his rectangular guitar, Bo Diddley's influence in rock and roll will place him amongst a distinguished few in the caverns of music history. One of Rock n' Roll's godfathers is dead. Bo Diddley was widely recognized as one of a handful of musicians that brought abo... more
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Bo Diddley dead at 79
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Bo Diddley R.I.P
Check out this clip of him playing only like Bo Diddley could!
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Bo Diddley- In his prime! Best video! Amazing!
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Bo Diddley, Rock ’n’ Roll Pioneer, Dies at 79
Bo Diddley, a singer and guitarist who invented his own name, his own guitars, his own beat and, with a handful of other musical pioneers, rock ’n’ roll itself, died Monday at his home in Archer, Fla . He was 79.
The cause was heart failure, a spokeswoman, Susan Clary, said. Mr. Diddley had a heart attack last August, only months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa.In the 1950s, Mr. Diddley — along with Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and a few others — helped reshape the sound of popular music worldwide, building it on the templates of blues, southern gospel and rhythm and blues. His original style of R&B influenced generations of musicians. And his Bo Diddley syncopated beat — three strokes/rest/two strokes — became a stock rhythm of rock ’n’ roll.
It can be found in Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away,” Johnny Otis’s “Willie and the Hand Jive,” Steppenwolf’s “Magic Carpet Ride,” The Who’s “Magic Bus,” Bruce Springsteen’s “She’s the One” and U2’s “Desire,” among hundreds of other songs.
Yet the rhythm was only one element of his best records. In songs like “Bo Diddley,” “Who Do You Love,” “Mona,” “Crackin’ Up,” “Say, Man,” “Ride On Josephine” and “Road Runner,” his booming voice was loaded up with echo and his guitar work came with distortion and a novel bubbling tremelo. The songs were knowing, wisecracking and full of slang, mother-wit and sexual cockiness. They were both playful and radical.
So were his live performances: trancelike ruckuses instigated by a large man with a strange-looking guitar. It was square, and he designed it himself, long before custom guitar shapes became commonplace in rock.
Mr. Diddley was a wild performer, jumping, lurching, balancing on his toes and shaking his knees as he wrangled with his instrument, sometimes playing it above his head. Elvis Presley, it has long been supposed, borrowed from Mr. Diddley’s stage moves; Jimi Hendrix, too.
Still, for all his fame, Mr. Diddley felt that his standing as a father of rock ’n’roll was never properly acknowledged. It frustrated him that he could never earn royalties from the songs of others who had borrowed his beat. Bo Diddley, a singer and guitarist who invented his own name, his own guitars, his own beat and, with a handful of other musical pione... more -
Guitar legend Bo Diddley dies
The iconic blues musician, lauded by artists such as The White Stripes, The Who and The Clash has died aged 79 from heart failure.
Known for his homemade mouse trap-shaped guitars, dark glasses and hats, Diddley began playing on street corners with friends. Born Ella Otha Bates, he took on the stage name 'Bo Diddley' and in 1955 unleashed his famous signature rhythm, 'the Bo Diddley Beat' on the world.
In 2007 he suffered a heart attack three months after a stroke and had been rehabilitating in Florida since then.
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Listen to Bo Diddley: http://www.myspace.com/bodiddley1 The iconic blues musician, lauded by artists such as The White Stripes, The Who and The Clash has died aged 79 from heart failure. ... more
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