Bo Diddley, aka Ellas Bates McDaniel, was born in 1928 in McComb, Mississippi. The legendary rock and roll musician was also nicknamed The Originator.

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 ...

BRONSON — Rock ‘n' roll legend Bo Diddley had often complained before he died of being "ripped off" by the musical revolution he helped found, having received no royalty payments for his biggest hits, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even more impressive, he brought in two bona fide blues legends to play with him and the Destroyers: Bo Diddley and Albert ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire. By Jody Rosen And other thoughts on the art of improvisation.