Wednesday, October 18, 2017

31 Nights of Halloween - Night 18: What did you see, Bo Diddley? What did you see?

One of rock's early, mostly unsung heroes was the irrepressible Bo Diddley. Known almost as much for name-checking himself as for the "Bo Diddley beat" that defined his sound, Bo Diddley was a spirit of good cheer, his songs often tongue-in-cheek and sly and sarcastic. But he could be serious, even intense, with songs like the bold and magnetic I'm A Man. On occasion, as in Who Do You Love?, he could be ominous, telling dark tales of night-shadowed alleys and swaggeringly supernatural protagonists.


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