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BO
DIDDLEY
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B.H.F. Exhibit Page
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Presented with Induction Award
1/29/03
Bo
Diddley's eMail : For all booking information and any other enquiries
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Bo
Diddley's eMail : For all booking information and any other enquiries for prompt forwarding on to Management. http://members.tripod.com/~Originator_2
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Bo Diddley photos courtesy Francis Goulet
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BO
DIDDLEY Birth Name: Ellas Bates Adopted Name: Ellas McDaniels Born: December 30, 1928 McComb, MS
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Bo Diddley 1956 performing at the Apollo Theatre, Brooklyn, New York, |
Hit
Songs: "You Can't Judge a Book by it's
Cover", "Who Do You Love" "Mona", "I'm A Man"...
1955 AD Bo Diddley records his debut hit "Bo Diddley"/"I'm A Man" (Checker 814).
The Blues Hall of Fame ® is proud to presents a message from Bo Diddley sent 8/13/04
I, Ellas McDaniel (aka Bo Diddley throughout the World), would like to share these thoughts with all of you:
that someone
is trying to destroy our rose garden here in America. Wake up and smell the
roses, because there's a fungus among us! Keep rockin' an' rollin',
but keep it clean. Love Bo Diddley - forever.
An Interview from David Blakey
A deservedly early inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, plaudits bestowed upon Bo Diddley in recent years have included Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm & Blues Foundation and from the Recording Academy, a Pioneer in Entertainment Award from the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters and in May of last year an inaugural Icon Award from the performing rights organization BMI. That award is inscribed with the following few simple words that succinctly validate Bo Diddley's contribution to popular music: "In recognition of your unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers".
Now in
his mid-70s, Bo Diddley is still very much active in the recording studio and
in the clubs and
concert halls around the world. He performed a rousing version of his classic
song "Who Do You Love" with
George Thorogood & The Destroyers in front of a TV audience of millions
at the Live Aid Concert in
Philadelphia in 1985. A couple of years later he was deservedly an early inductee
into the Rock 'n' Roll
Hall of Fame. In 1996 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm
'n' Blues Foundation
and in 1999 he received another Lifetime Achievement Award, this time from The
Recording Academy at that
year's annual Grammy Awards Ceremony. At the turn of the century, his 1955 debut
recording of his song "Bo
Diddley" was nominated as one of the 365 songs of the century, named as
one of the Rock & Roll Hall of
Fame's 500 songs that shaped rock & roll and inducted into the Grammy Hall
of Fame as a recording of lasting
qualitative or historical significance, whilst his 1955 recording of his song
"I'm A Man" was included in
NPR's list of the 300 most important American musical works of the 20th Century.
In recent
years, yet further honors have been justifiably awarded to him when he was inducted
into
The Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, The North Florida Music Association
Hall of Fame, presented with
a Pioneer In Entertainment Award by The National Association of Black Owned
Broadcasters and in 2002,
along with Chuck Berry and Little Richard, received an inaugural BMI Icon Award
in recognition of his unique
and indelible influence on generations of music makers.
A couple
of years later, in 2004, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall
of Fame and Mickey &
Sylvia's 1956 recording of his song "Love Is Strange" inducted into
the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording
of lasting qualitative or historical significance.
That same
year, in special issues marking 50 years of rock & roll, Rolling Stone magazine
named him as one
of The Immortals - the 50 greatest artists of all-time and named his songs "Bo
Diddley", "Who Do You Love"
and "I'm A Man" amongst its 500 greatest songs of all-time.
Currently
(2005) on a world-wide tour celebrating his 50th anniversary in music, in the
words of one of his
many famous eponymous songs, "Bo Diddley Put The Rock in Rock & Roll"
and remember..... Bo Knows!
For further
information, please eMail:
surfsinkorswim@yahoo.com
Bo, if you could say any thing you wanted to say on this page about any subject, What would you say?
Bo's Reply: See above message from Bo Diddley in Red Font. __________________________________________________________________________________________________
To view what others have submitted click: Bo Diddley B.H.F. Email Page.
Bo
Diddley's eMail : For all booking information and any other enquiries
regarding Bo Diddley, please e-mail
surfsinkorswim@yahoo.com
OTHER LINKS TO RECOMMENDED WEB PAGES
Bo Diddley's Personal Web Site:
Bo Diddley's Fan Club Web Site: http://members.tripod.com/~Originator_2
Other Bo Diddley Web Sites:
Bo Diddley Exhibit in The Blues Hall of Fame ®