Bo Diddley: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

George R. White, Bo Diddley, Living Legend (1995), provides a good biographical overview and is complemented by his The Complete Bo Diddley Sessions (1993). Michael Lydon, “Bo Diddley,” in his Boogie Lightning (1974, reprinted 1980), pp. 51–78, offers a fan’s enthusiasm, a historian’s thoroughness, and a critic’s insight. Andy McKaie, Robert Palmer, and Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley: The Chess Box (1990), the booklet that accompanies this box set, is a collaboration between compiler McKaie, blues scholar Palmer, and Diddley.

Representative Works

  • Go Bo Diddley (1958)
  • Bo Diddley (1962)
  • Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger (1963)
  • Bo Diddley’s Beach Party (1963)

Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Official Site of Bo Diddley. Oct 10, 2024
Anniversary information added. May 29, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 23, 2024
Anniversary information added. Dec 26, 2023
Add new Web site: None. Sep 29, 2023
Add new Web site: Mississippi Encyclopedia - Bo Diddley. Aug 04, 2023
Add new Web site: Official Site of Bo Diddley. Mar 25, 2023
Add new Web site: Allmusic - Bo Diddley. Feb 11, 2023
Add new Web site: Mississippi Writers and Musicians - Biography of Bo Diddley. Dec 30, 2022
Add new Web site: National Blues Museum - What’s in a Name?: Bo Diddley and His Bo Diddley Beat. Sep 27, 2022
Replaced photograph. Jan 11, 2018
Add new Web site: BlackPast - Biography of Bo Diddley. Sep 23, 2014
Added photograph. Sep 05, 2012
Add new Web site: All About Jazz - Bo Diddley. Dec 12, 2011
Add new Web site: AllMusic.com - Biography of Bo Diddley. Dec 12, 2011
Add new Web site: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Biography of Bo Diddley. Dec 12, 2011
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Bo Diddley. Dec 02, 2011
Article revised and updated. Jun 02, 2008
Media added. Feb 06, 2008
Article revised. Feb 09, 2000
New article added. Jul 20, 1998
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