Bo Diddley

But songs like the Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight," Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors," A Charlie Brown Christmas ... Chicago is represented by Mr. Elias Otha Bates, best known as "Bo Diddley." Diddley's song of the same name and the ...  

Recordings by the Grateful Dead, Booker T. and the M.G.s, Prince, Donna Summer, Bo Diddley, Love and the Sugarhill Gang will be added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, according to a report by the New York Times.  

The Library of Congress said today it will preserve everything from a tinny 1888 recording of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” to Prince’s incendiary album “Purple Rain” as part of its latest slate of entries to the National Recording Registry. The Library each year preserves 25 recordings it feels are “cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures for [...]  

A week after the death of Donna Summer, the singer has joined the performers who work has been judged “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and preserved in the archives of the Library Of Congress, as part of the United States National Recording Registry. Every year since 2006, the Registry board has added 25 selections to its collection; Summer made it in via her Giorgio Moroder-produced 1977 disco smash “I Feel Love...  

Summer's 1977 hit "I Feel Love" is joining the Grateful ... Blues singer Bo Diddley is being inducted to the sound registry, too, with "Bo Diddley" and "I'm a Man." For Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, Diddley's sound was some of the first ...  

Blues singer Bo Diddley is being inducted to the sound registry, too, with "Bo Diddley" and "I'm a Man." For Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, Diddley's sound was some of the first beats he learned as a little boy, he told The Associated Press.  

Blues singer Bo Diddley is being inducted to the sound registry, too, with "Bo Diddley" and "I'm a Man." For Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, Diddley's sound was some of the first beats he learned as a little boy, he told The Associated Press. So he was ...  

An unfairly lambasted and ignored near-masterpiece from rock 'n' roll's most humble elder statesman.  

Walter Trout leads a fierce but controlled instrumental attack on Lonely, our Pick of the Week from his 21st album, Blues for the Modern Daze, out today. Trout is the man who followed Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor as chief guitarist for John ...  

Three things I have learned from listening to just one song off of Bo Diddley’s psych masterpiece Black Gladiator: 1. Light In The Attic Records no matter what you hide yourself as (Modern Classic Recordings, Cinewax, or Future Days) you wiley clydes you, are top three greatest curators of forgotten music in the last ten years. [...]  

Bo Diddley recorded "Before You Accuse Me" in 1957. In his band at the time was Peggy Jones, one of the first female lead guitarists in history. Here's a great time-travel clip (complete with Go-Go dancers) of Bo Diddley performing his theme song (with ...  

An amusing little video  

While still a teenager, he formed his own band and opened for Willie Dixon, B.B. King, and Muddy Waters. Eventually, he caught the attention of Bo Diddley and they began playing shows together. “Bo Diddley would come around just to see me play ...  

He was giving to the first family by the late Senator Ted Kennedy. According to Bo's blog on Obamadog.com, Malia and Sasha gave him his name because their cousins have a cat named Bo, and Michelle Obama's father was nicknamed Diddley, as in Bo Diddley.  

Judges at the Sonny Boy Blues Society Battle of the Bands agreed about the music ... Based out of Marshall, Texas, (about 30 minutes west of Shreveport, La.), the group spends more than a quarter of the year on tour, and is particularly popular ...