Today is the birth date of Bo Diddley, born on this day in 1928. A musician with his own beat! Today, let’s examine Bo’s influence on rock 'n' roll. Share a song with the "Bo Diddley beat" and we’ll ...
Bo Diddley, who died yesterday at 79, was a swaggering blues belter whose crackly feedback guitar riffs and infectious rhythms helped give birth to rock ‘n’ roll. With homemade square guitars, replete ...
It’s a rhythm that flows through a lot of rock music. It’s that bum, bum, bum…ba, bum you’ve heard over and over, intertwining some of your favorite songs, maybe without ever realizing you were ...
DETROIT (Billboard) - Bo is gone. But his beat goes on. It's been a year since Bo Diddley died of heart failure at age 79 in his home in Archer, Fla., after a prolonged illness. His June 2, 2008, ...
Today is the birth date of Bo Diddley, born on this day in 1928. A musician with his own beat! Today, let’s examine Bo’s influence on rock 'n' roll. Share a song with the "Bo Diddley beat" and we’ll ...
On Capitol Hill, Bo Diddley hovered over an 1898 Edison recorder, playing his trademark rectangular guitar and singing into a large zinc horn as a vibrating needle scratched bands onto a slowly ...