Holly indeed sometimes played with black musicians Little Richard and Chuck Berry, and incorporated the Bo Diddley beat in several songs.

Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.

In late 1954, he teamed up with harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, drummer Clifton James, and bass player Roosevelt Jackson, and recorded demos of " I'm A Man " and " Bo Diddley ".

The record was released in March 1955, and the A-side, " Bo Diddley ", became a # 1 R & B hit.

McDaniel adopted the stage name Bo Diddley The origin of the name is somewhat unclear, as several differing stories and claims exist.

Bo Diddley himself said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley's first single, and guitar craftsman Ed Roman reported that another ( unspecified ) source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.

" I did two songs and he got mad ," Bo Diddley later recalled.

The show had requested that he sing the Merle Travis-penned Tennessee Ernie Ford hit " Sixteen Tons ", but when he appeared on stage, he sang " Bo Diddley " instead.

Diddley was an excellent story teller whose stories varied from time to time, however, Diddley contended to friends and family that he was not trying to double-cross Sullivan and attributed the " misunderstanding " to the fact that ; when he saw " Bo Diddley " on a cue card, he was under the impression he was to perform two songs, " Bo Diddley " and " Sixteen Tons ".

Chess included Diddley's recording of " Sixteen Tons " on the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, which was originally released in 1960.

He released a string of albums whose titles, including Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger and Have Guitar, Will Travel, bolstered his self-invented legend.

Between 1958 and 1963, Checker Records released 11 full-length albums by Bo Diddley.

The album title Surfing with Bo Diddley was a boast about his influence on surf guitarists.

Bo Diddley was one of the first American male musicians to include women in his band, including " The Duchess " Norma-Jean Wofford, Peggy Jones ( aka " Lady Bo "), Cornelia Redmond ( aka Cookie ), and Debby Hastings, who led his band for the final 25 years of his performing career.

After moving from his home in Chicago to Washington, D. C., he set up one of the first home recording studios where he not only recorded the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger but he recorded his valet, Marvin Gaye.

Bo Diddley touring Japan with Japanese band Bo Gumbos.

When Gaotao died before him, Yu then selected Gaotao's son, Bo Yi as his successor.

U Thant had two sons, but lost both ; Maung Bo died in infancy, and Tin Maung Thant fell from a bus during a visit to Yangon.

The fourth, Bo Setkya, who had gone underground after the 1962 coup, died in Bangkok shortly before U Nu arrived.

Ultimately, the party released a press release condemning Bo Gritz saying: " anyone who supports theories that we hoped had died with Adolph Hitler is not welcome in the America First Party.

His father, Liu Bo ( 劉髆 ), Prince Ai ( i. e., the lamented ) of Changyi died in 86 BC, and he inherited his father's principality.

In 1982 she married her current husband Bo Sahlin, with whom she has had three children: Jenny ( born 1983 ), Gustav ( born 1989 ), and Johan who died after ten months as a result of heart failure.

One of the team's stars, Hank Gathers, collapsed and died on the court near the end of the regular season, and teammates ( including Bo Kimble, who shot his first free throw of each tournament game left-handed ) honored Gathers during the tournament.

Bo Gu died in an air crash in the 1940s when he returned to Yan ' an.

Three years after Mao died, in 1979, Deng Xiaoping led an effort to rehabilitate members of the Communist Party who had been persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, and Bo was released from prison and reinstated as a member of the Politburo, and to his former position of vice premier.

Bo Pi ( Chinese: 伯嚭 ; Pinyin: Bó Pǐ ; died 473 BC ) was a bureaucrat in the state of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period.

* 711-Baetan, Bishop of Inis Bo Finne, died.

* 898-Caenchomhrac, of the caves of Inis Bo Fine, died.

* 1375 Bo Jonsson Grip, died 1386

When the chancellor Wang Bo died in 830, Yuan tried to use his connections to again become chancellor, but was unable to do so.

After Zhou Bo died in 169 BC, his son and Zhou Yafu's older brother Zhou Shengzhi ( 周勝之 ) inherited the march, but after one year he was accused of murder and executed.

Empress Dowager Bo ( 薄太后 ), known as Consort Bo ( 薄姬 ) when her husband was alive, and more formally as either Empress Dowager Xiaowen ( 孝文太后 ) or ( rarer ) Empress Gao ( 高皇后 ) ( died 155 BC ) was an imperial concubine for Emperor Gao of Han ( Liu Bang ) who would, unanticipated by her, become the mother of an emperor.

After Emperor Wen died in 157 BC and Crown Prince Qi succeeded him as Emperor Jing, Empress Dowager Bo became grand empress dowager.

Empress Bo () ( personal name unknown ) ( died 147 BC ) was an empress during the Han Dynasty.

After Grand Empress Dowager Bo died in 155 BC, Empress Bo lost her source of support within the palace.

On May 13, 2007, Bo Diddley was admitted to intensive care in Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, following a stroke after a concert in Council Bluffs, Iowa on May 12.

His funeral, a four-hour " homegoing " service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida and kept in tune with the vibrant spirit of Bo Diddley's life and career.

In an interview with Holger Petersen, on Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio in the fall of 2006 Bo Diddley commented about the racism that existed in the music industry establishment during the early part of his career that saw him deprived of his royalties from the most successful part of his career.

Bo Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006 with the fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson Band, featuring Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums, and Gus Thornton on bass.

:* Bo, on Exodus 10-13: Last plagues of Egypt, first Passover

The season was not without controversy, though, as goalkeeper Tony Meola, an American soccer goalkeeping legend that had been on the USA national team roster for three World Cups, went down with injury and backup Bo Oshoniyi would fill as a replacement.

In late 1975, Moon played drums on the track " Bo Diddley Jam " on Bo Diddley's The 20th Anniversary of Rock ' n ' Roll all-star album.

Sublette asserts: " In the context of the time, and especially those maracas on the record, ' Bo Diddley ' has to be understood as a Latin-tinged record.

At Chess Records in the spring of 1955, Bo Diddley's debut record " Bo Diddley "/" I'm A Man " climbed to # 2 on the R & B charts and popularized Bo Diddley's own original rhythm and blues clave-based vamp that would become a mainstay in rock and roll.

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