Bo Diddley is recognized as one of the first and most influential rock guitarist and musicians. He was born in Pike County, Mississippi, on December 20, 1928. His birth name was Otha Ellas Bates. In ...

That was the first thing Bo Diddley said to us before we walked onto the stage of the Music Machine club in West L.A. for two sets in 1983. We were a mix of members of the Blasters and X who had ...

Primal rock and blues musician Bo Diddley, who helped cast the sonic template of rock more than 50 years ago with a signature syncopated rhythm that became universally recognized as “the Bo Diddley ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ellas McDaniel became Bo Diddley when he was a teenager. He had been raised in Mississippi by his aunt, Gussie ...

For a young black singer and guitarist from Chicago with only a minor hit, getting booked on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1955 was a career-making opportunity. Sullivan asked him to sing Tennessee Ernie ...

Blues legend Bo Diddley died yesterday at the age of 79, but his musical legacy lives on. Farai Chideya talks with Rob Fields, a music marketing executive and black rock blogger, about the musicians ...

Musician Bo Diddley is being moved out of intensive care to a regular hospital room on Monday. His publicist, Susan Clary, says Diddley is currently at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, ...

Rock ‘n’ roll is the story of amplified personality, but even in an art form that celebrates outsize characters, Bo Diddley was a larger-than-life innovator. He was as essential to the creation of ...