The Bo Diddley Foundation recently announced plans for a celebration of the late blues great's music and legacy. Bo Diddley Explosion! will take place April 16 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Alachua Woman's ...

Diddley's swaggering stage presence influenced artists including James Brown, Mick Jagger and Jimi Hendrix. A primal guitar sound and stage swagger influenced music from Elvis to rap. But he never got ...

To assign a number to Bo Diddley would be impossible. The guitar great’s influence on rock and roll, blues, and R&B is immeasurable and can still be pinpointed in some of today’s biggest hits. His ...

Years in the making, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opens Saturday in Washington, D.C. Family members of the legendary musician Bo Diddley, who lived in this region for at ...

Mississippi is on track to honor a blues and rock legend who sang about being a "road running man." A state House passed a bill Thursday designating a stretch of Interstate 55 as the Bo Diddley ...

A lot of the musicians in this series were only filmed late in their lives because in their younger days, during the 1930s or earlier, nobody in Hollywood was paying much attention to what was going ...

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After a concert held at Council Bluffs, Iowa on May 13th, legendary blues guitarist Bo Diddley was taken to the hospital where it was determined he had suffered a stroke. Diddley is now in intensive ...

Editor's note: National recording artists and Gainesville rock band Sister Hazel will no longer be performing at the event. The Bo Diddley Foundation recently announced plans for a celebration of the ...

Bo Diddley is recognized as one of the first and most influential rock guitarist and musicians. He was born in Pike County, Mississippi, on December 20, 1928. His birth name was Otha Ellas Bates. In ...