Albums by Bo Diddley
ALBUMA Man Amongst MenBo Diddley
ALBUMBig Bad BoBo Diddley
ALBUMThe London Bo Diddley SessionsBo Diddley
ALBUMWhere It All BeganBo Diddley
ALBUMAnother DimensionBo Diddley
ALBUMThe Black GladiatorBo Diddley
ALBUMThe Super Super Blues BandBo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Howlin' Wolf
ALBUMSuper BluesBo Diddley, Muddy Waters & Little Walter
ALBUMTwo Great Guitars (Expanded Edition)Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry
ALBUMBo Diddley & CompanyBo Diddley
Bo Diddley's Popular Music Videos
My Ding A Ling
Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry
Who Do You Love?
Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry
Who Do You Love? (feat. Bo Diddley) [Live]
The Rolling Stones
Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry
Hey Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry
I'm A Man
Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry
Rock 'N' Roll Music
Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry
Gunslinger
Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry
Destination
Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry
Bo Diddley (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, November 20, 1955)
Bo Diddley
Artist Playlists
Bo Diddley Essentials
The man who brought a beat all his own to rock ‘n' roll.
Inspired by Bo Diddley
The Bo Diddley beat lives on forever.
Bo Diddley: Deep Cuts
Beyond the riffs and the beats were lots of laughs.
Artist Biography
Influential singer and guitarist Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates in 1928 in McComb, Mississippi. At age five he was adopted by his mother’s cousin and took her surname of McDaniel, relocating to Chicago. He played several instruments in church and eventually embraced the guitar, bringing some of the trance-inducing qualities of religious services to his own music in the early 1950s. His first single for Chess Records in 1955, “Bo Diddley,” named for his alter ego, was a maracas-driven track that introduced his singular take on the Cuban clave rhythm and reached No. 1 on the R&B chart. Diddley’s raw attack, rectangular guitar, nonchalant peculiarity, and natural charisma allowed him to straddle the line between burgeoning rock ’n’ roll and the blues. He maintained that duality for decades, touring on the blues circuit while opening for rock bands as varied as the Grateful Dead and The Clash. By the 1970s Diddley’s recording career was definitively eclipsed by his steady touring, which he continued until 2007, a year before his death from chronic heart problems.
Hometown
McComb, MS, United States
Genre
Blues