Bo Diddley, 1928-2008

He wore a cobra snake for a necktie. Ain’t really much more to say than that, other than to note that, perhaps just barely behind Chuck Berry, Bo was the best of rock’n'roll’s founding fathers — certainly the most original. Fifty-plus years on and no one has ever sounded like him, although without him, we wouldn’t have a lot things, such as the first Stooges album, “Rudie Can’t Fail” and the countless other songs that jacked the Bo Diddley Beat. And how fucking great do you have to be to have a rhythm named after you?

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