Rock pioneer Bo Diddley dead at 79

June 2nd, 2008 at 12:01pm Pat Cunningham

Bo Diddley, who did more than Elvis Presley (but a little less than Chuck Berry) to make me a rock ‘n roll fanatic in the 1950s, DIED MONDAY at the age of 79.

Some disk jockey, I forget who, once sagely observed: “If you don’t know Bo, you just don’t know.”

Here’s a little taste of the man’s music:

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