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Bo Diddley

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Blues
Soul music
Growing up in Chicago as Ellas McDaniel (the name of his adoptive mother), Bo Diddley studied trombone and violin at his local Baptist church, played in an orchestra until he was 18 and, diverted by the exciting rhythms he heard at a Pentecostal church, took up the guitar. He worked as a carpenter and mechanic but, busking on the streets of Chicago in his spare time, was offered a club residency. He adopted the name Bo Diddley from the title of his first hit single in 1955, a simple but irrepressibly infectious guitar riff, indelibly defined by its mix of African rhythms with ful...
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Bo DiddleyBo Diddley
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Diddley DaddyBo Diddley
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Hey Bo DiddleyBo Diddley
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Hush Your Mouth 

Alternate Take

Bo Diddley
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Bring It To JeromeBo Diddley
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You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)Bo Diddley
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Bo DiddleyBo Diddley

Bo Diddley's a Twister

2:48

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Diddley DaddyBo Diddley

Bo Diddley

2:29

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Hey Bo DiddleyBo Diddley

Bo Diddley

2:13

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Hush Your Mouth 

Alternate Take

Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley

3:02

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Bring It To JeromeBo Diddley

Bo Diddley

2:29

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You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)Bo Diddley

Go Bo Diddley

2:53

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