RIP Bo Diddley

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iBZ-NbmeMiN8RESlwc0CQDP5ntcAD9121NUO0

 

damn..

 

Damn. Bo knew his music. RIP Bo.

 

That sucks. I was wondering how he was doing when I saw him in "Purple Rain" a couple weeks ago. RIP.

 

Moment of silence. A gunslinger to the end.
If anybody here's attending his wake, make sure you wear a cobra snake for a necktie.

 

He also delivered one of the more memorable lines in "Trading Places," when a ruined, disheveled Louis Winthorp (Dan Aykroyd) was pawning his watch:

"In Philadelphia, it's worth 50 bucks."

RIP Bo.

 

That sucks... One of the stars of one of the best shoe commercials of all-time.

Not that that's what he'll be remembered for...

RIP

 

Really good Rolling Stone story on Bo from a couple of years back:

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bodiddley/articles/story/7539597/the_indestructible_beat_of_bo_diddley

"Who Do You Love" had one of my all-time fave lyrics:

"The night were dark and the sky were blue, down the alleyway an ice wagon flew
Hit a bump and somebody screamed, you should've heard just what I'd seen"

RIP to one of the real giants.

 

RIP, Bo ... shave and a haircut, two bits.

 

Here is a good series of audio interviewers with Bo

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20030216_DIDDLEY/index.html

 

Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley, have you heard?

 

Well, Trading Places and the Bo Knows commercial have been mentioned, but I have to refer to the George Thorogood "Bad to the Bone" video, which is where I was first introduced to him. See, MTV was good for something. RIP.