God Love Ellis...

He would appreciate THIS RACONTEURS show...
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JR

RIP and thanks for everything!!!
is there another beat named after an artist just like the bo diddley-beat?

Nice to know that two of the first songs the Stones ever recorded were Bo Diddley songs, Diddley Daddy and Roadrunner.

RIP Bo!

Saw him last year at the Byron Blues Festival. He was that good he brought tears to my eyes. RIP, sorely missed.

Thanks Bo for all the racket ya gave....Ya colored the world
Bo Diddley ....I'm A Man....Crawdaddy....Crackin' Up...Cops Robbers
Diddley Daddy ... Pretty Thing...Who Do Ya Love....Mona....Say Man...
Say Man the first rap record AND Aztec which went further outta there
than Neil Armstrong ever did ......

RIP........Rock In Peace...Angels will love ya noise



ROCKMAN

RIP,ONE OF THE GREATEST...

"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"

I said HEYYYYYYYY MOOOOOOOOONA! Yeah, Hey MOOONA!

RIP Didley Daddy! Rock it up with Muddy, Brian, Lennon, Harrison, Roy,and Hendrix! The true super group singing in the heavens.

Wow what a shock, a true pioneer of early rock 'n' roll RIP.

Bo had a street named for him in his hometown of McComb, Mississippi a couple of months ago.

RIP, Bo.

sad new, he was a GREAT

thanks for your beatiful songs Diddley Daddy

RIP

1st one!

Rock on BO! Before yu'cuse ,me! Dang, this music rocks..LISTEN TO IT PEOPLE!

JR



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In Honor of one of the greatest my memory to Diddley this song from a Spanish band called Fito y los Fitipaldis, in their song, "I´m not Bob Diddley/ Yo no soy Bob Diddley" listen a fragment..
enjoy it!!
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Carlitos
Tenerife

Like Bjornulf, I was able to see Bo play a few years ago and met him after the show. I saw him at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip. It wasn't long after he had got some burns on his body, so he played the show seated. After the show, a friend and I were waiting to try to meet Bo after the show and get photos and autographs. His road manager saw us and invited us up to his dressing room, where we sat down one on one with Bo. After that he was ready to leave and his road manager asked if we'd help carry down his guitar, so my friend and I each carried his guitar in its case out of the venue trading off about half way. We felt honored to do that for such a legend.

The purpose of life is to plant trees under which you may never sit.

Bo - we'll be rockin' under the cool shade of your trees every time someone picks up a rock 'n roll guitar.

As long as the guitar plays, it'll steal your heart away.

Stones connection

another one





R.I.P.



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RIP bo didley, one of the founders of Rock N Roll.

RIP Bo, the Prince of Rock and Roll, right behind the King Mr Chuck Berry.

I saw B.D. in Oct 1987 at the Channel Club in Boston with special guest Ronnie Wood... whatta show!!
I feel very lucky to have seen that show.

R.I.P.

Somewhere up in the stars they are playing the Bo Diddley beat. He had the coolest guitars, the coolest album covers and the coolest glasses.
He was the one. Bo Diddley was 500% more man than anyone else. RIP.

R.I.P. , Bo!

Still regret that your show in München in 2006 was cancelled,
I already had a ticket. It was 2 days before the Stones´ show.

Btw: The Bo Diddley Beat is one of the hottest things in music!












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Roadrunner
Diddley Daddy
both my favourite Stones bootlegs also with Cops And Robbers.
RIP Diddley Daddy, and thank you for the great music!

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Daily Telegraph this morning: good quote from Mick



Bo Diddley, US rhythm and blues singer dies, aged 79
By Mick Brown
Last Updated: 6:03AM BST 03/06/2008
Bo Diddley, the American rhythm and blues singer who was a pivotal figure in the development of pop music, died aged 79.

REUTERS
Bo Diddley died aged 79
Had Diddley been able to copyright the hypnotic and highly distinctive rhumba-like beat that was his musical trademark he might have been able to retire many years ago as a very wealthy man, rather than having to eke out a living in his old age, playing night-clubs, as his health deteriorated.

The Bo Diddley sound - best remembered in his eponymous hit in 1955 and sometimes summarized as 'shave and a haircut, two bits' - would become a key template for early rock and roll.

Buddy Holly's 'Not Fade Away', which was subsequently covered by the Rolling Stones, was a carbon-copy of the Diddley beat, as was 'Magic Bus' by the Who, 'I Want Candy' by The Strangeloves, and many more.

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It was largely due to Diddley's employment of marracas on his records that they became a mandatory accessory for the 1960s generation of British rock singers such as Mick Jagger and Phil May of the Pretty Things (who took their name from a Diddley song); while many of Diddley's own songs became standards in the rock canon, notably his self-glorifying anthems 'I'm a Man' and 'Who Do You Love'.

It was a mark of his standing as one of the founding fathers of pop music that he would become one of the first performers to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1987.

Diddley was born Otha Ellas Bates (some sources have it as Ellas Otha Bates), in McComb, Mississippii in 1928, adopting the name Bo Diddley - said to be black southern slang for 'nothing at all' - during a short spell as a boxer.

In the mid-50s, he signed to Chess records, the Chicago label that was also home to blues singers such as Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf and another pioneer of rock and roll, Chuck Berry.

His first single, 'Bo Diddley', backed with 'I'm A Man', became a number one hit on the R&B charts in 1955, leading to Diddley becoming the first black performer to appear on Ed Sullivan's hugely influential TV showcase of new talent.

Ironically, Diddley had been told not to perform his hit, but to sing Tennessee Ernie Ford's 'Sixteen Tons' instead. But Diddley went ahead and played his own song. 'Ed Sullivan said that I was one of the first colored boys to ever double-cross him', Diddley would reflect later. 'Said that I wouldn't last six months'.

At a time when any self-respecting rock and roll singer needed a flamboyant signature - Berry with his white shoes and duck-walk, Little Richard with his sequinned suits and pompadour hairstyle - Diddley cut a particularly distinctive figure, a big-shouldered man who invariably appeared dressed in lairish tartan jackets, swinging a flame-red rectangular-shaped Gretsch guitar.

He was one of the first musicians of any stripe to have women playing in his band - his bass-player for many years was Norma-Jean Wofford who rejoiced in the name 'The Duchess'.

Simply by sticking with what he knew and did best, Diddley never went out of fashion. Over the years he performed as an opening act for the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and the Clash. During the 1970s, he combined a musical career with serving as a law enforcement officer in New Mexico, donating three highway pursuit cars to the local citizen's patrol.

For all his success, Diddley always maintained that like so many artists of his generation he had never received his just desserts, receiving only a flat fee for his early recordings and no royalty payments on sales. "I am owed. I've never got paid," he said. "A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun."

He continued to be a regular visitor to Britain, last appearing in 2005 , but was eventually forced into retirement last year after suffering a stroke while on tour.

Generations of rock and roll stars have queued to pay tribute to the guitarist.

Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones described him as an "enormous force in music".

Jagger, whose band covered the Diddley songs Mona and Crackin' Up, paid tribute to the Mississippi-born musician.

He said: "He was a wonderful, original musician who was an enormous force in music and was a big influence on The Rolling Stones.

"He was very generous to us in our early years and we learned a lot from him.

"We will never see his like again."

Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant described Diddley's death as "a great loss".

He added: "His voice and relentless, glorious anthems echo down through my years.

"This royal shapeshifter continues to influence four generations of musicians on a daily basis."

REST IN PEACE, Bo. Thank you for the wonderful music and for the support to our guys. Your music will live on forever.

sad, if not totally unexpected news.

RIP Bo Diddley

Thanks Bo, for making the rock roll.

A real innovator. Actually the first Bo Diddley I ever heard was the London Sessions album which I still rate pretty highly. For anyone who doesn't have any Bo in their collection get yourself a copy of the Chess 2CD best of collection - just fantastic timeless music.

Andy