Applied to such songs as “Bo Diddley,”“Hey Bo Diddley” and “Who Do You Love,” it’s perhaps the most influential musical motif since the Devil purportedly handed Robert Johnson the I-IV-V chord progression at the crossroads. It gave Diddley his rightful moniker as the Originator and ...
Getting tips from his neighbor Bo Diddley, Pitts learned to play guitar at age 11 on the street corners of his childhood home of Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, Pitts’ uncle owned a hotel next to the prestigious Howard Theater, where he met a who’s who of soul and rhythm and blues legen...
Getting tips from his neighbor Bo Diddley, Pitts learned to play guitar at age 11 on the street corners of his childhood home of Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, Pitts’ uncle owned a hotel next to the prestigious Howard Theater, where he met a who’s who of soul and rhythm and blues legen...
Bo Diddley’s 1961 single‘Pills’(with risqué lyrics about a“rock n’ roll nurse goin’ right to my head”)was covered byThe New York Dollson their debut solo album in 1973. The Dolls version is much faster, and the harmonica rocks! Listen– Bo Diddley:https://www.youtube.com/watch?