This was going to be about why a rock star like Bo Diddley was performing in a remote bar in the Bronx last Saturday night. Then, near the end of Bo’s first set at the Stardust Room on Boston Road, a ...

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Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Bo Diddley performing on the main stage at the 1973 Monterey Jazz ...

Blues legend Bo Diddley died yesterday at the age of 79, but his musical legacy lives on. Farai Chideya talks with Rob Fields, a music marketing executive and black rock blogger, about the musicians ...

The blues icon died Monday at 79, but his signature sound marches on. The "Bo Diddley beat" powers acts from the Rolling Stones to the White Stripes. Musicologist Ned Sublette celebrates Diddley's ...

Bo Diddley's long and storied career remains hugely influential, even as he became a victim of one of the worst traits of the music industry - failure to give credit where credit was due, and ...

Rock ‘n’ roll is the story of amplified personality, but even in an art form that celebrates outsize characters, Bo Diddley was a larger-than-life innovator. He was as essential to the creation of ...

Bo Diddley’s funeral rocked and rolled Saturday with as much energy as his music. For four hours, friends and relatives sang, danced and celebrated the life of the man who helped give birth to rock ...

Bo Diddley, a singer and guitarist who invented his own name, his own guitars, his own beat and, with a handful of other musical pioneers, rock ‘n’ roll itself, died Monday at his home in Archer, Fla.