Bo Diddley 1928 - 2008

When you look at those who did his tunes and those who used his beat, holy smokes ... Presley, Dylan and Petty, John Hammond Jr. and Warren Zevon, Holly and the Stones. Didn't get any better.

Yeah -- this is the birth of rock and roll. I hear so many other songs in this clip --
"love is love and not fade away ..."
I'm guessing the audience screaming is dubbed, none the less - it is a command performance.

TY SAYS: Don't forget "Thank you driver for getting me here" (The Who's "Magic Bus") and Springsteen's "She's the One." Or "I Want Candy" and "Willie and the Handjive." Really, the man deserves his own wing at the R&R Hall o' Fame.

This video is just so unbelievably incredlble! Who's he gal with the guitar! This should be released as an incredible DVD!

The list of songs goes on even into country music. This guy was a sloppy musician, but he was the creator of a very huge part of rock.

Bliss!

A godfather of rock-n-roll. The guitar he gave to Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top. Check out the movie about Chuck Berry " Hail, Hail, Rock and Roll " with the concert put on by Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones.

The girl with the guitar is Bo Diddley's half-sister, who he referred to as "The Duchess"!

Diddley is sublime! The screaming meemies are incredibly irritating...

Pretty racy television even as late as '66. The sight of all those wiggling teenage white girls used to drive southern racists into rages

The Bo beat was ten years old by now. By this time every aspiring British and American rock and roll guitarist had at least one Diddley tune in their set list or were writing their own tunes over his beat. He never seemed to get the props he deserved next to Chuck Berry as the inventors of basic rock and roll. Probably because he never had Chuck's skills as a pop lyricist.