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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.
" 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.

Bo and himself
( Bo himself declined comment, but later in an open letter to a reader suggested that all of the views were, indeed, correct — that Jiang's fatal errors were to drain the energy of his people, but that he was indeed a loyal man, willing to lay down his life in a futile attempt to reestablish Shu.
After being humiliated by school bully Bo Griggs and rejected by cheerleader Sherry Squires, he takes revenge during the senior prom by donning his trademark scarecrow costume and brandishing a gun in the school parking lot ; in the ensuing chaos, Griggs gets into a car accident, paralyzing himself and killing Squires.
There was one titan engine for each of these nine planeswalkers: Commodore Guff, Tevesh Szat, Bo Levar, Daria, Taysir, Freyalise, Kristina, Lord Windgrace, and of course Urza himself.
Wen called the achievements of Chongqing " significant ," but the result of " multiple administrations ," i. e., not just Bo himself.
Li Bo's fu " prose-poem " Dapengniao fu ( 大鵬鳥賦 ) personalizes the Peng " into a symbol of the self-assured Li Bo himself.
According to his most thorough ( and quite sympathetic ) biographer ( Bo Lidegaard, Krag I-II, 2001 / 2002 ) he never truly settled into the role as a politician, always considering himself on the way ' to somewhere else '.
In August 2005, he made an appearance as himself in a sketch on the Channel 4 comedy series ' A Bear's Tail ' which was a spin off from Avid Merrion's Bo Selecta series.
However, with Tony Meola starting in goal, and the very experienced Bo Oshoniyi as his backup, Hesmer was not able to establish himself, and finished the MLS season without playing a single minute, although he did take to the field-for one single minute in a game against Rochester Raging Rhinos-during a brief loan spell with the Richmond Kickers in the A-League.
In addition, Chris Rock appears as a pizza delivery driver, Vince Vaughn appears as Bo Laramie's co-star, Matthew McConaughey appears as himself at a movie premiere.
On June 26, 1962, at Fenway Park, Wilson no-hit the Los Angeles Angels 2-0 and helped his own cause with a home run off Bo Belinsky — himself a no-hit pitcher on May 5 of that same 1962 season.
( Some historians, including the modern historian Bo Yang, believed that Emperor Xuanzong's continued issuance of edicts, while not on the surface conflicting with Emperor Suzong's authority, caused Emperor Suzong pressure to try to recapture Chang ' an as quickly as possible to avoid any contention for the throne — either in the form of Emperor Xuanzong himself resuming imperial authority or in the form of another imperial prince rising to defeat Yan.
He grew increasingly fascinated with the strange phenomenon of nobody ( including himself and his friends ) actually discussing race relations or exploring the mostly untold stories of the black experience in the punk scene, despite the plethora of accomplished black artists like Mick Collins, Fishbone, Vaginal Davis, and Bad Brains, and indeed punk rock's origins as an offshoot of rock and roll itself and the pioneering work of innovators like Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Jimi Hendrix.
He then made a name for himself as part of The Dupps, a hillbilly tag team consisting of kayfabe brothers Stan Dupp ( Mueller ) and Bo Dupp.

Bo and said
In 2007, the liberal Mother Jones news magazine said that the Times had become " essential reading for political news junkies " soon after its founding, and quoted James Gavin, special assistant to Bo Hi Pak:
An ex-stock car driver, Bo is the one who, in the earlier episodes at least, drives The General Lee most of the time ( very early episodes suggest that it belongs solely to him ; Luke is said to have a car that Cooter had wrecked shortly prior to the start of the opening episode, " One Armed Bandits ").
The Bodhi Tree, also known as Bo ( from the Sinhalese Bo ), was a large and very old Sacred Fig tree ( Ficus religiosa ) located in Bodh Gaya ( about from Patna in the Indian state of Bihar ), under which Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher later known as Gautama Buddha, is said to have achieved enlightenment, or Bodhi.
) Fans across Michigan and throughout the baseball world were outraged, but the ballclub and the radio station ( who eventually wound up blaming each other for the decision ) stood firm: "( Harwell's firing is ) not going to change no matter how much clamor is made over it ," said team president Bo Schembechler.
In an interview with People ’ s Daily, Bo said that his family name created career obstacles.
" Such unwavering support for Jiang was said to have worked in Bo Xilai's favour when the vacancy for Governor of Liaoning opened.
One source connected to the Chinese leadership said that Bo tried to monitor nearly all central leaders who had visited Chongqing.
Leftist commentators voiced support for Bo: Kong Qingdong called Bo's dismissal ' a plot by enemies of the state '; Sima Nan said associating Bo with the Cultural Revolution was a ' smear campaign '; Sima's pro-Bo microblogs were censored.
Bo said that Gu " now basically just stays at home, doing some housework for me.
On 24 September 2009, in an interview with the BBC, Leigh Francis said that Bo ' Selecta!
" I consider Bo Callaway one of my best friends, but I can't go with him in the governor's race ," Griffin said.
" I consider Bo Callaway one of my best friends, but I can't go with him in the governor's race ," Griffin said.
Besides, there is a " Boots-Losing House ", which is said to be the place where Ge Hong and his teacher Bo Jing used to discuss scriptures.
The Hindu Saivite ruler Shashanka of Gauda ( 590 – 626 ) destroyed the Buddhist images and Bo Tree, under which Siddhartha Gautama is said to have achieved enlightenment.
Quoting Jiang, the article says " Jiang said Han told him he believes Gu and Bo sabotaged the aircraft to assassinate his wife.
Because the meat was so large, the hunter spent days distributing it and the words " Bo-lor " ( which in Mende language means " this is yours ," with reference to the meat ) was said so much that the elders and visitors decided to name the place Bo.
Contemporary player Mike Hegan once said, " Bo had more fun off the field than he did on the field.
Bo said the aim was " to reinvigorate the city with the Marxist ideals of his father's comrade-in-arms Mao Zedong "; although academic Ding Xueliang of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology suspected the campaign's aim was to further his political standing within the country's leadership.
However, a servant of Zhang Lu's, Yang Bo ( 楊柏 ), said, " A man like that, who has no love for even his parents ( referring to the execution of Ma Teng caused by Ma Chao's rebellion ), cannot love another.

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