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Bo Diddley: Say Man (1958)

...late Bo Diddley was perhaps best known for that distinctive... ...rock. He used it on a number of songs -- Hey Bo Diddley, Pretty Thing, Hush Your Mouth and others --...

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Bo Diddley (Dec 30, 1928 - June 2, 2008)

...about himself long before the Monkees (Hey Bo Diddley) and his signature riff was the famous... ...Springsteen, Bowie . . . Larger than life, Bo Diddley is now gone....

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LONDON ROCK AND ROLL SHOW 1972 (Rajon DVD)

...Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley and others performed at Wembley Stadium in... ...his stripper called Alice Cooper) through Bo Diddley, a fiery Jerry Lee Lewis (playing piano with...

Film at Elsewhere: film/2548/london-rock-and-roll-show-1972-rajon-dvd/

CHESS BLUES: Taking it from the street

...roll (Chuck’s Johnny B. Goode. Bo's Bo Diddley and the still great Etta James). And they got...

Blues at Elsewhere: blues/3462/chess-blues-taking-it-from-the-street/

WHEN ROCK STARTED ROLLING (2013): Black rhythm and blues goes white

...of material by Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Bo Diddley, Slim Harpo, Chuck Berry and other heroes.... ...Lee Hooker, New Orleans' Dave Bartholomew, Bo Diddley . . . And although across in Belfast Van...

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THE BARGAIN BUY: Guns N’Roses Greatest Hits

...Sweet Child o’ Mine, Paradise City, the Bo Diddley beat of Mr Brownstone and the classic opener...

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ERIC CLAPTON; THE FIRST 25 YEARS CONSIDERED: The living link between hippie and yuppie

...in Your Hips -- a little known but appealing Bo Diddley-type thing written by vocalist Keith Relf. At...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: C.W. Stoneking

...the Ouroboros, and the gnostics, magnetism, Bo Diddley, the smell of an old guitar amplifier heated...

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10 SOLO ALBUMS BY GROUP MEMBERS (2019): Lemme back in, I was in that band!

...– based on an old African beat lifted by Bo Diddley as his signature “shave-and-a-haircut,...

Something Elsewhere: somethingelsewhere/9084/10-solo-albums-by-group-members-2019-lemme-back-in-i-was-in-that-band/

Mink De Ville: Return to Magenta (1978)

...with. Steady Drivin’ Man hooks into Bo Diddley/Chuck Berry boasting. With Dr John on piano...

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Various Artists: Roll Your Moneymaker, I Smell a Rat (Trikont/Yellow Eye)

...silly Space Guitar), Slim Harpo, Otis Rush, Bo Diddley . . . Generations of white musicians have...

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Various Artists: The New York Dolls Heard Them Here First (Ace/Border)

...is not unexpected, the black rhythm'n'blues of Bo Diddley (here with Pills), Otis Redding (Don't Mess...

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The Eels: Hombre Lobo (Vagrant)

...of Ronnie Hawkins’ menacing version of Bo Diddley’s Who Do You Love. Lilac Breeze, despite...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/2528/the-eels-hombre-lobo-vagrant/

MICKIE MOST CONSIDERED (2019): Pop music all present and correct, Sir. Future predicted . . .

...shared bills with the young Rolling Stones and Bo Diddley, got into production and gave the Nashville...

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Omar and the Howlers: Essential Collection (Ruf/Yellow Eye)

...hear comes from Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Bo Diddley and other blues masters but screwed down tight...

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JON HERINGTON PROFILED (2016): Ain't 'bout that adult entertainment, surely?

...on sitar-guitar) before it hits that reductive Bo Diddley beat. The brooding but funny I Ain't Got You...

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SOUL FOOD Y'ALL: Inna German style?

...song CD of food-inspired songs from the likes Bo Diddley, Jnr Walker, Wilie Bobo, RZA, Andre Williams,...

Something Elsewhere: somethingelsewhere/5789/soul-food-yall-inna-german-style/

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN CONSIDERED (2017): The needling and the damage done

...Their sources are on display in the covers (Bo Diddley, Beach Boys, Motown, Howling Wolf, the hot...

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CHICAGO SOUL, BLUES AND FUNK IN THE SIXTIES: Moving the Chess pieces

...see this legendary place where Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Etta James, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and... ...MCA did decent CD box sets of Wolf, Willie, Bo Diddley, Chuck and Muddy in the late Eighties, and in... ...from the earthiness of Howlin' Wolf's Evil and Bo Diddley's darkly angry Another Sugar Daddy (which you...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/4383/chicago-soul-blues-and-funk-in-the-sixties-moving-the-chess-pieces/

IN BRIEF: A quick overview of some recent international releases

...wringing it for meaning. Much better is the Bo Diddley-riff driven Skin on the Wheel of Time where...

Music at Elsewhere: music/7533/in-brief-a-quick-overview-of-some-recent-international-releases/

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: The Live Anthology (Universal)

...(I'm in Love), bluesmen Willie Dixon and Bo Diddley (Diddy Wah Diddy, I'm a Man, I Just Wanna Make...

Music at Elsewhere: music/2867/tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-the-live-anthology-universal/

Various Artists: The Birth of Surf Guitar Vol 3 (Ace/Border)

...boards here too: riffs and melodies come from Bo Diddley, Dick Dale, Tequila, More Surf by the...

Music at Elsewhere: music/7240/various-artists-the-birth-of-surf-guitar-vol-3-ace-border/

PAUL McCARTNEY LIVE IN SYDNEY (1993): Younger Than Yesterday

...Elvis’ Good Rockin’ Tonight; and a Bo Diddley-style reworking of I Wanna Be Your Man which...

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Alvin Robinson: Down Home Girl (1964)

...Got My Mojo Working, Hoochie Coochie Man) and Bo Diddley (Roadrunner, Cops and Robbers, Mona). And...

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Various Artists: Planet Beat; From The Shel Talmy Vaults (Big Beat/Border)

...Casting My Spell is strange one with a thin Bo Diddley beat but an almost breathless vocal. It's...

Music at Elsewhere: music/8608/various-artists-planet-beat-from-the-shel-talmy-vaults-big-beat-border/

THE ROLLING STONES; THE SIXTIES: Through the past darkly (again)

...a rock'n'roll rebel and Who Do You Love was a Bo Diddley song from the late Fifties. It is safe to say...

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Grim Ltd: Shakin' It Up At The Nicoberg (Frenzy)

...Bout You (later covered by Dr Feelgood), Bo Diddley's Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut (familiar from...

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Music at Elsewhere: music/10849/grim-ltd-shakin-it-up-at-the-nicoberg-frenzy/

Dr Feelgood, Stupidity (1976)

...You Baby), Solomon Burke (the title track) and Bo Diddley (I'm A Man) -- but Johnson contributed the...

Essential Elsewhere: essentialelsewhere/806/dr-feelgood-stupidity-1976/

A RHYTHM AND BLUES TIMELINE 1900 - 1960

...of civil rights movement 1955 1st hits for Bo Diddley & Chuck Berry 1956 1st hits for James...

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The Rolling Stones, The Unstoppable Stones (1965)

...of Holly's Not Fade Away which owes more to Bo Diddley than Buddy. And that was just the first side....

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The Kentucky Headhunters: Live at the Ramblin' Man Fair (Alligator/Southbound)

...original My Daddy Was a Milkman (with its Bo Diddley tropes) defaults to a drum solo from Fred...

Music at Elsewhere: music/8819/the-kentucky-headhunters-live-at-the-ramblin-man-fair-alligator-southbound/

Downliners Sect: The Sect (1964)

...Collier which were based around the simple Bo Diddley riff: Be A Sect Maniac and Sect Appeal.... ...of Easy Rider, Bright Lights Big City and Bo Diddley’s Cops and Robbers. Terrific all of it.... ...Stones to Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. It is never too late to be a sect maniac....

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Hamilton of British Sea Power

...everybody needs affection, and Roadrunner by Bo Diddley Any interesting, valuable or just plain...

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THE GANTS, RESURRECTED (2024): The British Beat from Mississippi

...their first single was an impressive cover of Bo Diddley's Road Runner and – like any...

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The Pretty Things: Don't Bring Me Down (1964)

...to serious business over a thumping, primitive Bo Diddley-style riff before singer Phil May tears his...

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THE MONKEES REVISITED (2016): Through the looking glass

...smart to mention yourself in a song, right Bo Diddley and the Verlaines?), I'm a Believer, Pleasant...

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THE ROLLING STONES: BETWEEN THE BUTTONS, CONSIDERED (1967): A laugh turned to farce?

...it. Please Go Home reaches back to their early Bo Diddley-influenced version of Buddy Holly's Not Fade...

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THERE'S GOOD ROCKIN' TONIGHT (2014): The music that reshaped the world

...Lace) to essential and often primal rhythms (Bo Diddley's famous “shave and a haircut, two...

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U2: Achtung Baby (1991); Zooropa (1993)

...least co-opt, the cachet of Lennon, Hendrix, Bo Diddley (as with many others, Buddy Holly not the...

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Hallelujah Picassos: Perfect (1995)

...tosses out some very bent covers, among them Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love, Sixties garageband the...

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From the Vaults: fromthevaults/4874/hallelujah-picassos-perfect-1995/

BOB DYLAN: SPRINGTIME IN NEW YORK 1980- 1985, THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL 16 (2021): Five discs of outtakes, offcuts and clean cuts, kid

...Smith; Price of Love is a soul-rocker over the Bo Diddley beat; the humorous one-off Fur Slippers...

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SHORT CUTS: A round-up of recent New Zealand releases

...originals (Ellas McDaniels about the great Bo Diddley) and A Certain Girl by Allen Toussaint which...

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Roy Loney and the Phantom Movers: Born to be Your Fool (1979)

...used a cobra snake for a necktie . . ." (Bo Diddley and others) "it's quarter to three,...

From the Vaults: fromthevaults/4003/roy-loney-and-the-phantom-movers-born-to-be-your-fool-1979/

Various Artists: Chicago Plays the Stones (Raisin' Music/Southbound)

...songs (the moody Miss You eases towards the Bo Diddley beat too) even on the somewhat improbable...

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Various: The Roots of Led Zeppelin (Proper/Southbound)

...of Muddy Waters, The Hook, Elmore James and Bo Diddley on the second disc. The third disc stalks some...

Blues at Elsewhere: blues/2403/various-the-roots-of-led-zeppelin-proper-southbound/

Various Artists: The History of Rhythm and Blues 1952-1957 (2010 collection)

...Boy Williamson, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Slim Harpo, Lowell Fulsom . . . And Street...

Essential Elsewhere: essentialelsewhere/3171/various-artists-the-history-of-rhythm-and-blues-1952-1957-2010-collection/

THE BLUES HAD A BRITISH BABY (2021) And they called it . . . rock'n'roll, psychedelic rock and hard rock?

...and songs by Solomon Burke, Allen Toussaint, Bo Diddley, Slim Harpo and Rufus Thomas as well as white... ...doing John Lee Hooker and telling The Story of Bo Diddley (Diddley's original was in 1959) They also... ...Howlin' Wolf's Smokestack Lightnin' and Bo Diddley's Pretty Girl). Clapton quit in early '65. He...

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Johnny Devlin: How Would Ya Be (Ode)

I was too young to be swept up in the fervour surrounding Johnny Devlin, New Zealand's first shirt-rippin' stage-ragin' rock'n'roll star. But my older sister certainly had a Devlin EP -- sponsored by

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North Mississippi Allstars: Hernando (Songs of the South)

These Allstars aren't really, but two of them are the sons of the great James Luther Dickinson whose last album was one of the Best of Elsewhere 2007: a swirling implosion of country, psychedelic rock

Music at Elsewhere: music/1560/north-mississippi-allstars-hernando-songs-of-the-south/

SINISTER SONS AND DANGEROUS DAUGHTERS (Rocket/Triton DVD)

Souped up and modified cars, teens running wild in the streets striking fear into the hearts of citizens, booze'n'dope, loud music their parents hate . . . It could only be the Fifties, right? Anyone

Film at Elsewhere: film/2763/sinister-sons-and-dangerous-daughters-rocket-triton-dvd/

Brilleaux: Decade (Brilleaux)

You -- well, I -- admire a rock'n'roll r'n'b band that names itself after the late lead singer of the British pub rock band Dr Feelgood whose Stupidity album from '76 is mandatory in any Essential Els

Music at Elsewhere: music/2722/brilleaux-decade-brilleaux/

MORE MILES THAN MONEY: JOURNEYS THROUGH AMERICAN MUSIC by GARTH CARTWRIGHT

Writing about music is a sedentary affair today: CDs are reviewed at home, and artists are interviewed by phone, in a comfortable hotel or their record company office. Latterly, to my regret, it has b

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HOOKED: ANTI-DRUG FILMS FROM THE 30'S TO THE 70'S (Rocket/Triton DVD): Marijuana to murder in 15 minutes

Every generation thinks it invents the same two things: swearing and sex. Equally, in the Western world at least, for the past century or so every generation gets the soundtrack it needs. And the drug

Film at Elsewhere: film/2787/hooked-anti-drug-films-from-the-30s-to-the-70s-rocket-triton-dvd-marijuana-to-murder-in-15-minutes/

Kay Starr: The Rock and Roll Waltz (1955)

Cheap Trick scored a lot of favourable press for their Surrender (see clip below) in which the kid wakes up to find mum and dad rocking and rolling (rolling numbers) and having his Kiss records out. I

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Big Walter and the Thunderbirds: Watusie Freeze Part 1 (1959)

...and . . . Okay, some better known names then: Bo Diddley (Aztec), Gabor Szabo (his distinctly odd take...

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THE BARGAIN BUY: Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction; Deluxe Edition

...statement which connected the dots between Bo Diddley (Mr Brownstone rides off Bo's “shave and...

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Delaney Davidson: Lucky Guy (Rough Diamond/Southbound)

...classic Wreck on the Highway) alongside some Bo Diddley-cum-glam (Black Bo) and much more, all...

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WHO ARE THE PLASTIC ONO BAND? edited by SIMON HILTON

...festival in Toronto where many of his heroes (Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry) were to appear....

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WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . ROKY ERICKSON: Calling occupants of interplanetary craft

...with his first band, the Spades] and a song by Bo Diddley, If I Could Live My Life All Over...

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FIFTIES ROCK'N'ROLL; LOUD, FAST AND OUT OF CONTROL: Rock 101, The Originators

...Elvis and driven by Ike Turner's piano) and Bo Diddley's always alarming primal ker-chunk of Bo...

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EILEN JEWELL INTERVIEWED (2018): Got them weird, oldtime blues again

...Be Mine somewere between rockabilly and Bo Diddley, which reminds you just how close so many of...

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DAVID GATES INTERVIEWED (2003): Not in it for the Bread

...then we did Diddy Wah Diddy, which was an old Bo Diddley song. That was an interesting session....

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Various Artists: Girls With Guitars (Ace/Border)

...played the Star Cub in Hamburg (the driving Bo Diddley is a Lover). The lesser-known names include...

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The Cramps: File Under Sacred Music; Early Singles 1978-81 (Munster Records/Southbound)

...like Ronnie Hawkins' classic cover of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love (“I walk 47 miles of...

Music at Elsewhere: music/4793/the-cramps-file-under-sacred-music-early-singles-1978-81-munster-records-southbound/

BUDDY HOLLY REMEMBERED 50 YEARS ON: His life, his wife, his legacy

...his own (Not Fade Away borrowed the “Bo Diddley beat”); used close harmonies...

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IN BRIEF: A quick overview of some recent international releases

...into an art form. They use/appropriate/parody Bo Diddley's famous beat, cheap Sixties pop, turn in...

Music at Elsewhere: music/8262/in-brief-a-quick-overview-of-some-recent-international-releases/

LIL BAND OF GOLD (2010): The journey of swamp pop from past to present

...glam-metal noise in LA, then backing the late Bo Diddley and Zydeco legend Clifton Chenier to hanging...

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THE BARGAIN BUY: The Buzzcocks; Original Album Series

...seven minutes over a relelentless rhythm (like Bo Diddley's patented sound as reimagined by a British...

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Throwing Muses: Sun Racket (Fire/digital outlets)

...and abrasive textures (the shape-shifting Bo Diddley Bridge which brings to mind early Patti...

Music at Elsewhere: music/9574/throwing-muses-sun-racket-fire-digital-outlets/

THE SHARP SARACENO AND THE MYSTERIOUS MARKETTS: Tales from the farce side

...by Jack Nitzche) which mixed up a little of Bo Diddley's beat with Willy and the Hand Jive, and...

Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/4745/the-sharp-saraceno-and-the-mysterious-marketts-tales-from-the-farce-side/

ALLIGATOR RECORDS 1971 - 2011: Four decades of brittle and often brilliant blues

...menacingly sexual today on her gender-flip of Bo Diddley's I'm A Man on I'm a Woman (“I could...

Blues at Elsewhere: blues/3921/alligator-records-1971-2011-four-decades-of-brittle-and-often-brilliant-blues/

Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers: Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers (1971)

Although the blues can be a sophisticated music, there's something more earthy, vibrant and appealing about it when it is played from somewhere further south than the cerebral cortext. Hound Dog Taylo

Essential Elsewhere: essentialelsewhere/2791/hound-dog-taylor-and-the-houserockers-hound-dog-taylor-and-the-houserockers-1971/

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