“Unlike his self-titled ‘Bo Diddley’, recorded the same day (March 2, 1955 in Chicago), ‘I’m a Man’ does not use the ‘Bo Diddley beat’. Rather, it was inspired by Muddy Waters’ 1954 song ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’, written by Willie Dixon. After Bo Diddley’s release, Waters...
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The Crickets were no strangers to the Bo Diddley beat — they had already covered "Bo Diddley" — but with "Not Fade Away" they made the rhythm their own, thanks to drummer Jerry Allison, who pounded out the beat on a cardboard box. Allison, Holly's best friend, also claims to have...
“The Rolling Stones recorded ‘Little Red Rooster’ in 1964 with original member Brian Jones a key player in the recording. Their rendition, which remains closer to the original arrangement than Cooke’s, became a #1 record in the UK and is still theonlyblues song to reach the top of the...
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The Who’s version was a gem of groove-heavy psychedelia, riding a Bo Diddley beat with a signature clave rhythm played by the band’s road man- ager/sound man Bob “Ben Pump” Pridden. It was released in various renditions. But the eight-minute take that appears on Live at Leeds, ...
Several years beforeHarry Nilssonbecame famous, he released "All for the Beatles," which was released under the alternate title "Stand Up and Holler" and credited to a pseudonym, Foto-Fi Four. The song features a prominent Bo Diddley beat and was packaged with a film reel of the Beatles ...
written, produced and arranged by michael himself, the song found him tackling classic rock & roll via a bo diddley–inspired beat and an elvis presley warble. the track was a landmark for the pop star, becoming the biggest-selling single of 1988. “father figure” (1988) michael set out...
The Stonesmade this Buddy Holly standard sound demanding and desperate. “[We] put the Bo Diddley beat up front,” Wyman said. Andrew Loog Oldham went so far as to say it was “the first songMickandKeithwrote. The way they arranged it was the beginning of their shaping of them as song...