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Check out this interesting video about the grave of rock n roll legend Bo Diddley! Bo Diddley was a very influential musician and his grave is one of the most famous in the world. Learn more about his life and career in this video clip.
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Bo Diddley
Born in McComb, Mississippi as Ellas Bates. Bo Diddley was the only child of Ethel Wilson, a sharecropper's teenaged daughter, and Eugene Bates.
Wilson was only sixteen, and being unable to support a family, she gave her cousin, Gussie McDaniel, permission to raise her son. McDaniel eventually adopted him, and he assumed her surname.
However, he was more interested in the joyful, rhythmic music he heard at a local Pentecostal Church and took up the guitar; Diddley said he thought that the trance-like rhythm he used in his rhythm and blues music came from the Sanctified churches he had attended as a youth in his Chicago neighborhood.
The origin of the stage name Bo Diddley is unclear. McDaniel claimed that his peers gave him the name, which he suspected was an insult.Diddly is a truncation of diddly squat, which means "absolutely nothing".Diddley also said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother knew. Harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold said that it was a local comedian's name, which Leonard Chess adopted as McDaniel's stage name and the title of his first single. McDaniel also stated that his school classmates in Chicago gave him the nickname, which he started using when sparring and boxing in the neighborhood with The Little Neighborhood Golden Gloves Bunch.
A diddley bow is a homemade single-string instrument that survived in the American Deep South,especially in Mississippi. Played mainly by children,the diddley bow in its simplest form was made by nailing a length of broom wire to the side of a house, using a rock placed under the string as a movable bridge, and played in the style of a bottleneck guitar, with various objects used as a slider.
On November 20, 1955, Diddley appeared on the popular television program The Ed Sullivan Show. According to legend, when someone on the show's staff overheard him casually singing "Sixteen Tons" in the dressing room, he was asked to perform the song on the show. One of Diddley's later versions of the story was that upon seeing "Bo Diddley" on the cue card, he thought he was to perform both his self-titled hit single and "Sixteen Tons”.
Diddley was among those musicians who capitalized on the mid-1960s surfing and beach party craze in the United States, and released the albums Surfin' with Bo Diddley and Bo Diddley's Beach Party.
After moving from Chicago to Washington, D.C., Diddley built his first home recording studio in the basement of his home.One of the first groups he recorded was local doo-wop group the Marquees, featuring Marvin Gaye and baritone-bass Chester Simmons, who mooonlighted as Diddley's chaffeur.
In May 2007, Diddley suffered a stroke after a concert the previous day in Council Bluffs, Iowa.Nonetheless, he delivered an energetic performance to an enthusiastic crowd. A few months later he had a heart attack. While recovering, Diddley came back to his hometown of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007, for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the Mississippi Blues Trail. This marked his achievements and noted that he was "acclaimed as a founder of rock-and-roll." He was not supposed to perform, but as he listened to the music of local musician Jesse Robinson, who sang a song written for this occasion, Robinson sensed that Diddley wanted to perform and handed him a microphone, the only time that he performed publicly after his stroke.
Bo Diddley died on June 2, 2008, of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida at the age of 79.
Check out this interesting video about the grave of rock n roll legend Bo Diddley! Bo Diddley was a very influential musician and his grave is one of the most famous in the world. Learn more about his life and career in this video clip.
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youtube.com/channel/UCzYoOSS-nWVQjl-FSncwLKQ
Bo Diddley
Born in McComb, Mississippi as Ellas Bates. Bo Diddley was the only child of Ethel Wilson, a sharecropper's teenaged daughter, and Eugene Bates.
Wilson was only sixteen, and being unable to support a family, she gave her cousin, Gussie McDaniel, permission to raise her son. McDaniel eventually adopted him, and he assumed her surname.
However, he was more interested in the joyful, rhythmic music he heard at a local Pentecostal Church and took up the guitar; Diddley said he thought that the trance-like rhythm he used in his rhythm and blues music came from the Sanctified churches he had attended as a youth in his Chicago neighborhood.
The origin of the stage name Bo Diddley is unclear. McDaniel claimed that his peers gave him the name, which he suspected was an insult.Diddly is a truncation of diddly squat, which means "absolutely nothing".Diddley also said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother knew. Harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold said that it was a local comedian's name, which Leonard Chess adopted as McDaniel's stage name and the title of his first single. McDaniel also stated that his school classmates in Chicago gave him the nickname, which he started using when sparring and boxing in the neighborhood with The Little Neighborhood Golden Gloves Bunch.
A diddley bow is a homemade single-string instrument that survived in the American Deep South,especially in Mississippi. Played mainly by children,the diddley bow in its simplest form was made by nailing a length of broom wire to the side of a house, using a rock placed under the string as a movable bridge, and played in the style of a bottleneck guitar, with various objects used as a slider.
On November 20, 1955, Diddley appeared on the popular television program The Ed Sullivan Show. According to legend, when someone on the show's staff overheard him casually singing "Sixteen Tons" in the dressing room, he was asked to perform the song on the show. One of Diddley's later versions of the story was that upon seeing "Bo Diddley" on the cue card, he thought he was to perform both his self-titled hit single and "Sixteen Tons”.
Diddley was among those musicians who capitalized on the mid-1960s surfing and beach party craze in the United States, and released the albums Surfin' with Bo Diddley and Bo Diddley's Beach Party.
After moving from Chicago to Washington, D.C., Diddley built his first home recording studio in the basement of his home.One of the first groups he recorded was local doo-wop group the Marquees, featuring Marvin Gaye and baritone-bass Chester Simmons, who mooonlighted as Diddley's chaffeur.
In May 2007, Diddley suffered a stroke after a concert the previous day in Council Bluffs, Iowa.Nonetheless, he delivered an energetic performance to an enthusiastic crowd. A few months later he had a heart attack. While recovering, Diddley came back to his hometown of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007, for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the Mississippi Blues Trail. This marked his achievements and noted that he was "acclaimed as a founder of rock-and-roll." He was not supposed to perform, but as he listened to the music of local musician Jesse Robinson, who sang a song written for this occasion, Robinson sensed that Diddley wanted to perform and handed him a microphone, the only time that he performed publicly after his stroke.
Bo Diddley died on June 2, 2008, of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida at the age of 79.
