Bo Diddley R.I.P.


“If you ain’t got no money, ain’t nobody calls you honey,” he once said. Criminally underappreciated, Bo was a true rock and roll pioneer who not only perfected a guitar style used by everybody, but also an innovator of electric guitar reverb and tremelo effects. Without him there would be no “rock and roll”, nevermind power pop. When you talk about who stole a riff from somebody else… you have to mention Bo Diddley because EVERYONE copied from him. His major songs included, “Say Man,” “You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover,” “Shave and a Haircut,” “Uncle John,” “Who Do You Love?” and “The Mule.” He was 79 years old.