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Archer, Florida
Archer is a city in Alachua County, Florida, United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau estimates of 2006, the city had a population of 1,302.
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Council Bluffs, Iowa
Council Bluffs, known until 1852 as Kanesville, Iowa the historic starting point of the Mormon Trail and eventual northernmost anchor town of the other emigrant trails, is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States and is on the east bank of the Missouri River across from what is now the much larger city of Omaha, Nebraska. Settlers departing west into the sparsely settled unorganized parts of the Territory of Missouri to the Oregon Country and the newly conquered California Territory through the (eventual) Nebraska Territory from Kanesville traveled by wagon trains along the much storied Oregon, Mormon, or California Trails into the newly expanded United States western landsafter the first large organized wagon trains left Missouri in 1841, the annual migration waves began in earnest by spring of 1843 and built up thereafter with the opening of the Mormon Trail (1846) until peaking in the later 1860s when news of railroad progress had a braking effect. By the 1860s virtually all migration wagon trains were passing near the renamed town. The wagon train trails became less important with the advent of the first complete transcontinental railway in 1869 but while trail use diminished after that, their use continued on at lesser rates until late in the nineteenth century.
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Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is a city in Alachua County, Florida, United States. It is the county seat and the largest city in Alachua County. Gainesville is also home to the University of Florida, which is one of the largest universities in the United States. Santa Fe College is also located in Gainesville.
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Hawthorne, Florida
Hawthorne is a city in Alachua County, Florida, United States. The population was 1,415 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 1,442 [http://www.census.gov/popest/cities/tables/SUB-EST2004-04-12.xls].
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McComb, Mississippi
McComb is a city in Pike County, Mississippi, United States, about 80 miles south of Jackson, just off the I-55. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 13,337, an increase of about a thousand people since the 1980 census of 12,331. It is the principal city of the McComb, Mississippi, Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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New Mexico
New Mexico() is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also part of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth- most sparsely inhabited U.S. state.
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Nike, Inc.
Nike, Inc. () () is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area. It is the world's leading supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment with revenue in excess of $18.6 billion USD in its fiscal year 2008 (ending May 31, 2008). As of 2008, it employed more than 30,000 people worldwide. Nike and Precision Castparts are the only Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the state of Oregon, according to The Oregonian.
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Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha () is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles (30 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River. Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which includes Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha. It is located 190 miles north of Kansas City, Missouri.
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South Side (Chicago)
The South Side is a major part of the City of Chicago, which is located in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Much of it has evolved from the city's incorporation of independent townships, such as Hyde Park Township which voted along with several other townships to be annexed in the June 29, 1889 elections. Regions of the city, referred to as sides, are divided by the Chicago River and its branches. The South Side of Chicago was originally defined as all of the city south of the main branch of the Chicago River, but it now excludes the Loop. The South Side has a varied ethnic composition, and it has great disparity in income and other demographic measures. The South Side covers 60% of the city's land area, with a higher ratio of single-family homes and larger sections zoned for industry than the rest of the city.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Aerosmith
Aerosmith is an American hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "'''America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band'''". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many subsequent rock artists. The band was formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970. Guitarist Joe Perry and bassist Tom Hamilton, originally in a band together called the Jam Band, met up with singer Steven Tyler, drummer Joey Kramer, and guitarist Ray Tabano, and formed Aerosmith. In 1971, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford, and the band began developing a following in Boston.
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Albert Collins
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B. B. King
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B.B. King
Riley B. King (born September 16, 1925), known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter acclaimed for his expressive singing and guitar playing.
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Billy Boy Arnold
Billy Boy Arnold (born William Arnold, September 16, 1935, Chicago, Illinois) is a leading American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.
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Bo Diddley
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Bob Seger
Robert Clark "Bob" Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.
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Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, born in Burbank, California. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially accessible recordings in the 1990s including "Nick of Time", "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneakin' Up on You", and the slow ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me". Raitt has received nine Grammy Awards in her career and is a lifelong political activist.
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Buddy Holly
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Captain Beefheart
Don Van Vliet (; born Don Glen Vliet, January 15, 1941) is an American musician and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called The Magic Band, active between 1965 and 1982, with whom he recorded 12 studio albums. Noted for his powerful singing voice with its wide range, Van Vliet also played the harmonica, saxophone, bass clarinet, piccolo oboe and shehnai. His music blended rock, blues and psychedelia with free jazz, avant-garde and contemporary experimental composition. An iconoclastic mix of complex instrumentation, atonal melodies, and often humorously surreal lyrics, it was crafted through dictatorial control over his musicians and creative vision.
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Chris Isaak
Christopher Joseph "Chris" Isaak (born June 26, 1956) is an American rock musician and occasional actor.
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Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.
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Craig McLachlan
Craig McLachlan (born Craig Dougal McLachlan, 1 September 1965, Long Jetty, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian actor and singer, best known for his role as Henry Ramsay in Neighbours . He has also appeared in other shows such as Sons and Daughters, Bugs and Home and Away.
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Dick Clark
Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (born November 30, 1929) is an American businessman; game-show host; and radio and television personality. He served as chairman and chief executive officer of Dick Clark Productions, which he has sold part of in recent years. Clark is best known for hosting long-running television shows such as American Bandstand, five versions of the game show Pyramid, and ''Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve''.
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Dion DiMucci
Dion Francis DiMucci (born July 18, 1939), better known as Dion, is an American singer-songwriter whose work has incorporated elements of doo-wop, pop, rock and R&B; styles.
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Dudley Moore
Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.
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Earl Hooker
Earl Hooker (January 15, 1929 – April 21, 1970) was a Chicago blues guitarist. Hooker rarely sang and in a genre where the stars were vocalists or vocalists/instrumentalists, his commercial success was limited. However, he "was undeniably a virtuoso among guitar players" and has been acknowledged by many of his peers. As B.B. King commented: "to me he is the best of modern guitarists. Period. With the slide he was the best. It was nobody else like him, he was just one of a kind".
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Ed Sullivan
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Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known by the stage name Elvis Costello, is a British singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the Punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; the critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes him as a "pop encyclopedia," able to "reinvent the past in his own image".Stephen Thomas Erlewine, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql;=10:ly09kect7q70 Get Happy!! [Ryko Bonus Tracks]], Allmusic. Retrieved 17 September 2007.
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Eric Burdon
Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is best known as a founding member and vocalist of The Animals, a rock band formed in Newcastle, England, his funk rock band War and his aggressive stage performance. He was ranked 57th in Rolling Stone's list - The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only person who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times; as a solo performer, as well as a member of rock bands the Yardbirds and Cream. Throughout his career, Clapton has been viewed by critics and fans alike as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time, Clapton was ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #53 on their list of the "Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2010, Clapton was ranked #4 on ''Gibson's'' Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
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Everly Brothers
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George Benson
George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is a multi Grammy Award winning American musician, whose recording career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist. He is also known as a pop, R&B;, and scat singer. This one-time child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the triple-platinum album, Breezin'. He was also a major live attraction in the UK during the 1980s. Benson uses a rest-stroke picking technique similar to that of gypsy jazz players such as Django Reinhardt.
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George Michael
George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (); June 25, 1963) is an English singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s when he formed the pop duo Wham! along with his school friend Andrew Ridgeley. His first solo single, "Careless Whisper" was released when he was still in the duo and sold about six million copies worldwide.
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George Thorogood
George Thorogood (born February 24, 1950) is a blues rock vocalist/guitarist from Wilmington, Delaware, known for his hit song "Bad to the Bone" as well as for covers of blues standards such as Hank Williams' "Move It On Over" and John Lee Hooker's "House Rent Boogie/One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer". Another favorite is a cover of Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love?" George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers have released 16 studio albums, including two that were certified certified Platinum. and six that have been certified Gold. The band has sold 15 million albums worldwide. The band is credited with the early success of Rounder Records.
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (; born July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut) was the 43rd President of the United States, serving from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th Governor of Texas, serving from 1995 to 2000.
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Harvey Fuqua
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James Brown
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Jeff "Skunk" Baxter
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Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll and country music singer and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, his career faltered after Lewis married his young cousin, and he afterwards made a transition to country music.
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Jimi Hendrix
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John Conyers
John Conyers, Jr. (born May 16, 1929) is a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Michigan's 14th congressional district, which includes most of northwestern Detroit, as well as Highland Park, Hamtramck and part of Dearborn. A Democrat, he has served since 1965 (the district was numbered as the 1st District until 1993). In January 2007, Conyers became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in the 110th United States Congress; he had been the committee's ranking Democrat since 1997.
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John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948) and "Boom Boom" (1962).
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Lafayette Leake
Lafayette Leake (June 1, 1919 - August 14, 1990) was a blues and jazz pianist, organist, vocalist and composer who played for Chess Records as a session musician, and as a member of the Big Three Trio, during the formative years of Chicago blues. He played piano on many of Chuck Berry's recordings.
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Les Paul
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Lester Davenport
Lester "Mad Dog" Davenport (born January 16, 1932, Tchula, Mississippi - March 17, 2009) was an American blues harmonica player and singer, best known as a Chicago blues style musician.
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Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, bandleader and recording artist, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame web site entry on Penniman states that:
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Little Walter
:For the radio personality, see Little Walter DeVenne.
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Long John Baldry
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Marvin Gaye
Marvin Pentz Gaye, Jr. (April 2, 1939April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late fifties, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960 signing with the Tamla subsidiary of Motown Records. After starting off as a session drummer, Gaye ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the sixties.
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Maureen Tucker
Maureen Ann "Moe" Tucker (born August 26, 1944, in Levittown, New York) is a musician best known for having been the drummer for the rock group The Velvet Underground.
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Merle Travis
Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. His lyrics often discussed the life and exploitation of coal miners. Among his many well-known songs are "Sixteen Tons" and "Dark as a Dungeon". However, it is his masterful guitar playing and his interpretations of the rich musical traditions of his native Muhlenberg County, Kentucky for which he is best known today. "Travis picking", a syncopated style of finger picking, is named after him. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977.
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer, best known as the lead vocalist of rock band, The Rolling Stones. Jagger has also acted in and produced several films.
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Mickey Baker
Mickey Baker, also known as Mickey "Guitar" Baker (born MacHouston Baker, October 15, 1925, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American guitarist. He is widely held to be a critical force in the bridging of rhythm and blues and rock and roll, along with Bo Diddley, Ike Turner, and Chuck Berry.
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Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1915April 30, 1983), known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered "the Father of blues". Blues musicians Big Bill Morganfield and Larry "Mud Morganfield" Williams are his sons. A major inspiration for the British blues explosion in the 1960s, Muddy was ranked #17 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
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Norma-Jean Wofford
Norma-Jean Wofford (circa 1942 — April 30, 2005) was a guitarist who played with Bo Diddley and his band from 1962 to 1966.
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Otis Spann
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Peter Cook
Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English satirist, writer and comedian. An influential figure in British comedy, he is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. He has been described by Stephen Fry as "the funniest man who ever drew breath". Cook is closely associated with anti-establishment comedy that emerged in Britain and the USA in the late 1950s.
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Phil Ranstrom
Phil Ranstrom is an American documentary film director living in Chicago, Illinois and has been writing, producing and directing documentaries since the early 1980s. Among his credits are the 1983 Chicago Emmy Award nominated documentary, The Cocaine Express and the critically-acclaimed, , which Chicago Tribune writer and WGN (AM) host, Rick Kogan called, "One of the most remarkable pieces of work I've ever seen."
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Red Cross
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Robbie Robertson
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Robert Cray
Robert Cray (born August 1, 1953, Columbus, Georgia) is an American blues guitarist and singer.
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Robert Plant
Robert Anthony Plant, CBE (born 20 August 1948), is an English rock singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career. In 2007, Plant released Raising Sand, an album produced by T-Bone Burnett with American bluegrass soprano Alison Krauss, which won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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Ronnie Hawkins
Ronald "Ronnie" Hawkins (born January 10, 1935) is a Juno Award-winning rockabilly musician whose career has spanned more than half a century. Though his career began in Arkansas, USA, where he'd been born and raised, it was in Ontario, Canada where he found success and settled for most of his life. He is considered highly influential in the establishment and evolution of rock music in Canada.
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Ronnie Wood
Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a former member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and current member of The Rolling Stones. He is known for his characteristic slide guitar style, and also plays lap and pedal steel guitar.
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Sandy Gennaro
Sandy Gennaro is an American professional rock and roll drummer.
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Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop. She has won nine Grammy Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
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Tennessee Ernie Ford
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The Lurkers
The Lurkers were a late 1970s English punk rock group from Uxbridge, West London, notable for being the first group ever on Beggars Banquet Records.
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The Pretty Things
The Pretty Things are an English rock and roll band from London, who originally formed in 1963. They took their name from Bo Diddley's 1955 song "Pretty Thing" and, in their early days, were dubbed by the British press the "uglier cousins of the Rolling Stones". Their most commercially successful period was the mid 1960s, although they continue to perform to this day. David Bowie covered two of their songs on his album Pin Ups.
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Tom Petty
Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury.
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Townes Van Zandt
John Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 – January 1, 1997), best known as Townes Van Zandt, was an American country-folk music singer-songwriter, performer, and poet. Many of his songs including "If I Needed You", "To Live Is To Fly", and "No Place to Fall" are considered standards of their genre. AllMusic has called him "one of the greatest country and folk artists of his generation."
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Diddley, Bo Filmography
- UtopiaLand (2013)
- Johnnie Be Good (2011)
- UtopiaLand (2011)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live: Feelin' Alright (2009)
- Electrified: The Story of the Maxwell Street Urban Blues (2008)
- Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street (2006)
- 3-D Rocks (2005)
- Rock at Fifty (2003)
- Backstage with Bo Diddley (2003)
- American Bandstand's 50th Anniversary Celebration (2002)
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me (2001)
- Blues Odyssey (2001)
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: High Grass Dogs, Live from the Fillmore (1999)
- Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
- The Making of 'Blues Brothers 2000' (1998)
- The 40th Annual Grammy Awards (1998)
- Salute to the '50s: The Reunion of the Decade (1996)
- Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1996)
- Rock & Roll (1995)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 2 (1995)
- The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 1 (1995)
- Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge (1995)
- Live at the Joint (1995)
- American Bandstand's 40th Anniversary Special (1992)
- Leyendas de la guitarra (1991)
- Cue the Music (1991)
- Big Bird's Birthday or Let Me Eat Cake (1991)
- Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll (1991)
- Rockula (1990)
- Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! (1989)
- John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band: Sweet Toronto (1988)
- Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (1987)
- Bo Diddley: I Don't Sound Like Nobody (1987)
- Chuck Berry & Bo Diddley's Rock 'n' Roll All Star Jam (1985)
- American Bandstand's 33 1/3 Celebration (1985)
- Good Time Rock 'n' Roll (1985)
- Hells Angels Forever (1983)
- Trading Places (1983)
- Good Old Days (1977)
- American Bandstand's 25th Anniversary (1977)
- Let the Good Times Roll (1973)
- The London Rock and Roll Show (1973)
- Crush Proof (1972)
- Keep on 'Rockin (1969)
- The Legend of Bo Diddley (1966)
- The Big T.N.T. Show (1966)
- The Legend of Bo Diddley (1966)
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Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley have you heard
Mama gonna buy you a mockingbird
If that mockingbird don't sing
She gonna buy you a diamond ring
If that diamond ring don't shine
Baby gonna take it to a private eye
If that private eye can't see
He gonna have to come an talk to me
Said hey Bo Diddley
Hey now Bo Diddley
Hey Bo Diddley
I walked 47 miles of barbed wire
Use a cobra snake for a necktie
Got a brand new house on the roadside child
Made out of rattlesnake hide
Brand new chimney on top
Made out of human skulls
Come and take a little walk with me Arlene
Tell me who do you love
Who do you love
Who do you love
Who do you love
Arlene took me by my hand
Said cool it Robert you know your my man
Who do you love
Who do you love
Who do you love
Night was dark the sky was blue
Down the alley we was swingin' through
Lord I heard just what I seen
Who do you love
Who do you love
Bo Diddley called a nanny goat
To make his pretty baby a Sunday coat
Bo Diddley called a bear cat
To make his pretty baby a Sunday hat
Hey, Bo Diddley,
Hey, Bo Diddley, yeah!
Hey, Bo Diddley, baby,
Hey, Bo Diddley.
Two, two, three I was alone
Went to my baby when I get home
Tell my baby the night's away
Come on baby feel like that
Said hey, Bo Diddley,
Hey, Bo Diddley, yeah!
Hey, Bo Diddley, baby,
Hey, Bo Diddley.
Bo Diddley bought a diamond ring
Take it to my baby most anything
Baby, baby, baby, all right
I get home she nearly gone.
Hey, Bo Diddley
Hey, Bo Diddley, yeah!
Hey, Bo Diddley, babe,
Hey, Bo Diddley.
Bo Diddley called a bear cat
To make his pretty baby a Sunday hat
Bo Diddley called a nanny goat
To make his pretty baby a Sunday coat
Hey, Bo Diddley,
Hey, Bo Diddley, yeah!
Hey, Bo Diddley, babe,
Hey, Bo Diddley!
Baby, baby, baby, come on now!
Want you to know you can feel me darlin'!
Baby, baby, baby, please come home now,
Don't know what I'm gonna do with Mona.
Hey, Bo Diddley,
Hey, Bo Diddley, yeah!
Hey, Bo Diddley, babe,
Hey, Bo Diddley!
Hey, Bo Diddley!
Hey, Bo Diddley!
Hey, Bo Diddley!
written by E. McDaniel, Arc Music Corp. BMI (1980?)
Here's a little story that I really want to tell
It's about Bo Diddley at the O.K Corral
Now, Bo Diddley didn't start no mess
He had a gun on his hip and a rose on his vest
'Cause Bo Diddley's a gunslinger
(Bo Diddley's a gunslinger)
Bo Diddley's a gunslinger
(Bo Diddley's a gunslinger)
Bo Diddley's a gunslinger
(Bo Diddley's a gunslinger)
Bo Diddley's a gunslinger
(Bo Diddley's a gunslinger)
Bo Diddley buys him a diamond ring
If that diamond ring don't shine
He better take it to a private eye
If that private eye can't see
Well, he better bring that ring to me
I said, "Yeah, Bo Diddley, yeah"
(Yeah, Bo Diddley, yeah)
"Yeah, Bo Diddley, huh"
(Yeah, Bo Diddley, hey, yeah, etc.)
I said, "Why'd ya come to my house
On Black Jack Road
Take my baby away from home
Where'd you go or where you been
Up your house and gone again
I said, "Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley,
Have you heard?
(Hey, Bo Diddley)
My pretty baby, Kim
She was a bird"
(Hey, Bo Diddley)
I said, "Yeah, Bo Diddley, yeah"
(Yeah, Bo Diddley, yeah)
"Yeah, Bo Diddley, yeah, huh"
(Yeah, Bo Diddley, yeah)
Yeah...Child.....yeah
I said, "Bo Diddley's a gunslinger"
(Bo Diddley's a gunslinger)
"Bo Diddley's a gunslinger"
(Bo Diddley's a gunslinger)
Bo Diddley's a gunslinger
(Ellas McDaniel) 1955
Bo Diddley bought his babe a diamond ring,
If that diamond ring don't shine,
He gonna take it to a private eye,
If that private eye can't see
He'd better not take the ring from me.
Bo Diddley caught a nanny goat,
To make his pretty baby a Sunday coat,
Bo Diddley caught a bear cat,
To make his pretty baby a Sunday hat.
Mojo come to my house, ya black cat bone,
Take my baby away from home,
Ugly ole mojo, where ya bin,
Up your house, and gone again.
Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley have you heard?
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Crackin' Up
- I'm Sorry
- Bo's Guitar
- Willie And Lillie
- You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
- Say Man
- The Great Grandfather
- Oh Yea
- Don't Let It Go
- Little Girl
- Dearest Darling
- The Clock Strikes Twelve
- Down Home Special
- Mona (I Need You Baby)
- Bo Meets The Monster
- She's Alright
- My White Horse
- Live My Life
- Scuttle Bug
- Love Me
- Walkin' and Talkin'
- Mule Train (Lead vocal)
- Travelin' West
- Mule Train (Group vocal)
- Mule Train (alternate Group vocal)
- Merengue (Limbo)
- Say You Will
- Say You Will (alternate take)
- Craw-Dad
- Ride on Josephine
- No More Lovin'
- No More Lovin' (alternate take)
- Do What I Say
- Doing the Craw-Daddy
- Whoa Mule (Shine)
- Cheyenne
- Sixteen Tons
- Googlia Moo
- Working Man
- (Bo Diddley's a) Gunslinger
- Somewhere
- Bo Diddley
- I'm a Man
- Little Girl
- You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
- Diddley Daddy
- She's Fine, She's Mine
- Pretty Thing
- Bring It to Jerome
- Diddy Wah Diddy
- I'm Looking for a Woman
- I'm Bad
- Who Do You Love
- Cops and Robbers
- Down Home Special
- Hey! Bo Diddley
- Mona
- Say Boss Man
- Before You Accuse Me
- Say Man
- Hush Your Mouth
- Bo Diddley
- Pretty Thing
- I'm a Man
- Before You Accuse Me
- Who Do You Love
- Mona (I Need You Baby)
- Bring It to Jerome
- Hey Bo Diddley
- I'm Looking for a Woman
- Say Boss Man
- Diddley Daddy
- I'm Bad
- Diddy Wah Diddy
- Down Home Special
- Intro/Bo Diddley (live)
- Doctor Jekyll (live)
- Everleen (live)
- I Don't Know Where I've Been (live)
- You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover (live)
- Road Runner (live)
- I'm a Man (live)
- Mona (I Need You, Baby) (live)
- Elephant Man
- You, Bo Diddley
- Black Soul
- Power House
- If the Bible's Right
- I've Got a Feeling
- Shut Up, Woman
- Hot Buttered Blues
- Funky Fly
- I Don't Like You
- Bo Diddley
- I'm a Man (single version)
- You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
- Diddley Daddy (single version)
- Pretty Thing
- Bring it to Jerome
- I'm Looking for a Woman
- Who Do You Love (single version)
- Hey! Bo Diddley
- Mona (single version)
- Before You Accuse Me (Take a Look at Yourself)
- Say Man (single version)
- Dearest Darling (single version)
- Crackin' Up
- The Story of Bo Diddley
- Road Runner (single version)
- Pills
- I Can Tell
- You Can't Judge a Book by It's Cover
- Ooh Baby
- Mumblin' Guitar
- Bo Diddley
- I'm a Man
- Diddy Wah Diddy
- Pretty Thing
- Bring It to Jerome
- Diddley Daddy
- Who Do You Love
- I'm Bad
- Cops and Robbers
- Walkin' and Talkin'
- Say Man
- Shut Up Woman
- Hush Your Mouth
- You Can't Judge a Book by It's Cover
- The Story of Bo Diddley
- Crackin' Up
- Craw-Dad
- She's Fine, She's Mine
- Better Watch Yourself
- Bo's a Lumber Jack
- We're Gonna Get Married
- Don't Let It Go (Hold on to What You Got)
- The Greatest Lover in the World
- Hey Good Looking
- 500% More Man
- I've Had It Hard
- Gun Slinger
- Ride on Josephine
- Doing the Crawdaddy
- Cadillac
- Somewhere
- Cheyenne
- Sixteen Tons
- Whoa Mule (Shine)
- No More Lovin'
- Diddling
- Working Man
- Do What I Say
- Prisoner of Love
- Googlia Moo
- Better Watch Yourself
- Bo Diddley
- I'm a Man
- You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover
- Story of Bo Diddley
- Who Do You Love
- Mona (I Need You Baby)
- I Can Tell
- Road Runner
- Pretty Thing
- Say Man
- Hey! Bo Diddley
- Cops and Robbers
- Before You Accuse Me
- Cadillac
- Diddley Daddy
- You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
- Bring It to Jerome
- Pills
- Dearest Darling
- I'm Looking for a Woman
- Bo Diddley
- 500% More Man
- Bring It to Jerome
- Say Man
- Somebody's Cryin'
- Cops and Robbers
- Before You Accuse Me
- Bo Diddley Is Loose
- I'm a Man
- Dearest Darling
- Hong Kong
- Can I Go Home
- Hey Bo Diddley
- Whoa Mule
- Bo's Blues
- Pretty Thing
- Who Do You Love
- Road Runner
- Bo Diddley
- I'm a Man
- You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
- Diddley Daddy
- Pretty Thing
- Bring It to Jerome
- I'm Lookin' for a Woman
- Who Do You Love?
- Hey Bo Diddley
- Mona
- Before You Accuse Me
- Say Man
- Dearest Darling
- Crackin' Up
- The Story of Bo Diddley
- Road Runner
- Pills
- I Can Tell
- You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
- Ooh Baby
- I'm a Man
- Carol
- Who Do You Love
- Thirty Days
- Roll Over Beethoven
- Road Runner
- Almost Grown
- You Can't Judge a Book by It's Cover
- My Ding-A-Ling
- Ooh Baby
- Gun Slinger
- Hey! Bo Diddley
- Doing the Crawldaddy
- Road Runner
- Diddling
- Diddley Daddy
- Diddy Wah Diddy
- Crackin' Up
- Who Do You Love
- You Can't Judge a Book by It's Cover
- The Story of Bo Diddley
- Down Home Special
- Little Girl
- Bo Diddley
- You Don't Love Me
- Diddy Wah Diddy
- Pretty Thing
- Bring It to Jerome
- Dancing Girl
- Who Do You Love
- Crackin' Up
- I Am Looking for a Woman
- Cops & Robbers
- Nursery Rhyme
- Hey! Bo Diddley
- You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover
- Before You Accuse Me
- Say Man
- Bo Diddley
- I'm a Man
- You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
- Diddley Dady
- She's Fine, She's Mine
- Pretty Thing
- Bring It to Jerome
- Diddy Wah Diddy
- I'm Looking for a Woman
- Who Do You Love
- Cops and Robbers
- Hey! Bo Diddley
- Mona (I Need You Baby)
- Before You Accuse Me
- Say Man
- Hush Your Mouth
- Bo's Guitar
- Willie and Lillie
- Crackin Up
- I'm Sorry
- Nursery Rhyme
- The Story of Bo Diddley
- Road Runner
- You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover
- Down Home Special
- You Don't Love Me
- Blues Blues
- 500% More Man
- Live My Life
- She's Fine, She's Mine
- Heart-O-Matic Love
- Bring It to Jerome
- Pretty Thing
- You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
- The Clock Strikes Twelve
- Cops and Robbers
- Run Diddley Daddy
- Before You Accuse Me
- Diddy Wah Diddy
- Bo's Blues
- Little Girl
- I'm a Man
- I'm Bad
- Who Do You Love
- I'm Looking for a Woman
- Two Files
- Bo Diddley
- I'm a Man
- Bring It to Jerome
- Before You Accuse Me
- Hey, Bo Diddley
- Dearest Darling
- Hush Your Mouth
- Say Boss Man
- Diddley Daddy
- Diddy Wah Diddy
- Who Do You Love
- Pretty Thing
- We're Gonna Get Married
- You Ain't Bad
- Background to a Music
- Heart-O-Matic Love
- Bo Meets the Monster
- Pills
- You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
- Africa Speaks
- Pretty Thing
- Who Do You Love
- Hey Bo Diddley
- Crackin' Up
- Little Fool
- Dancing Girl
- Bo Diddley
- I'm a Man
- Mona
- Say Man
- Hush Your Mouth
- Road Runner
- Long Distance Call
- Who Do You Love
- I'm a Man
- Bo Diddley
- You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
- I Just Want to Make Love to You
- My Babe
- You Don't Love Me
- Studio Chatter
- Sad Hours
- Juke
- Bo Diddley
- I'm a Man
- Bring It to Jerome
- Diddley Daddy
- Pretty Thing
- I'm Looking for a Woman
- Diddy Wah Diddy
- Cops and Robbers
- Who Do You Love?
- Before You Accuse Me
- Hey! Bo Diddley
- Mona (I Need You Baby)
- Say, Boss Man
- Dearest Darling
- Say Man
- Hush Your Mouth
- Roadrunner
- Story of Bo Diddley
- Scuttle Bug
- Signifying Blues
- Let Me In
- Limber
- Love Me
- Crawdad
- Walkin' And Talkin'
- Travelin' West
- Deed and Deed I Do
- Live My Life
- Bo Diddley
- Hey Bo Diddley
- Pretty Thing
- Bring It to Jerome
- I'm a Man
- Mona
- Diddley Daddy
- Dearest Darling
- Who Do You Love
- Roadrunner
- Story of Bo Diddley
- Before You Accuse Me
- I'm Looking for a Woman
- Say Bossman
- Bo Diddley
- I'm a Man
- Bring It to Jerome
- Before You Accuse Me
- Hey Bo Diddley
- Dearest Darilng
- Hush Your Mouth
- Say Boss Man
- Diddley Daddy
- Diddy Wah Diddy
- Who Do You Love
- Pretty Thing
- Crackin' Up
- I'm Sorry
- Bo's Guitar
- Willie and Lillie
- You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
- Say Man
- Great Grandfather
- Oh Yeah
- Don't Let It Go
- Little Girl
- Deartest Darling
- Clock Strikes Twelve
- Bite You
- He's Got All the Whiskey
- Hit or Miss
- You've Got a Lot of Nerve
- Stop the Pusher
- Evelee
- I've Been Workin'
- Don't Want No Lyin' Woman
- Bo Diddley
- Going Down
- Make a Hit Record
- Bo-Jam
- Husband In-Law
- Do the Robot
- Sneakers on a Rooster
- Get Out of My Life
- Liverpool Drive
- Chuck's Beat
- When The Saints Go Marching In
- Bo's Beat
- Fireball
- Stay Sharp
- Chuckwalk
- Stinkey
- Memphis
- Gunslinger
- Hey! Bo Diddley
- Old Smokey
- Bo Diddley's Dog
- I'm Allright
- Mr. Custer
- Bo's Waltz
- What's Bugging You?
- Roadrunner
- Mr Khrushchev
- Diddling
- Give Me a Break (Man)
- Who May Your Lover Be
- Bo's Bounce
- You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover
- Babes in the Woods
- Sad Sack
- Mama Don't Allow No Twistin'
- You All Green
- Bo's Twist
- Detour
- She's Alright
- Doin' the Jaguar
- Who Do You Love
- Shank
- Road Runner
- My Babe
- The Twister
- Hey, Bo Diddley
- Hush Your Mouth
- Bo Diddley
- I'm Looking for a Woman
- Here 'Tis
- I Know
- Hey Good Looking
- Mush Mouth Millie
- Bo Diddley's Hootnanny
- London Stomp
- Let's Walk Awhile
- Rooster Stew
- La-La-La
- Yeah Yeah Yeah
- Rainman
- I Wonder Why
- Brother Bear
- Mummy Walk
- Gun Slinger
- Ride on Josephine
- Doing the Crawdaddy
- Cadillac
- Somewhere
- Cheyenne
- Sixteen Tons
- Whoa Mule (Shine)
- No More Lovin'
- Diddling
- Not Guilty
- Hong Kong, Mississippi
- You're Looking Good
- Bo's Vacation
- Congo
- Bo's Blues
- Bo Diddley Is a Lover
- Aztec
- Back Home
- Bo Diddley Is Loose
- Love Is a Secret
- Quick Draw
- She's Alright
- Cops and Robbers
- Run Diddley Daddy
- Mumblin' Guitar
- Mona (I Need You Baby)
- Say Man, Back Again
- Nursery Rhyme
- I Love You So
- Spanish Guitar
- Dancing Girl
- Come On Baby
- Elephant Man
- Black Soul
- Funky Fly
- I Don't Like You
- Shut Up Woman
- Bad Moon Rising
- Pollution
- Shape I'm In
- Down On The Corner
- Bad Side Of The Moon
- Go For Broke
- I've Had It Hard
- Bad Trip
- Hey, Jerome
- Infatuation
- Take It All Off
- Bo Diddley-Itis
- Bite You
- Hit Or Miss
- Stop The Pusher
- Hey Bo Diddley
- Mona
- Say Boss Man [alternate version - Undubed]
- Say Boss Man
- Run Diddley Daddy [Early version]
- Before You Accuse Me
- Say Man [alternate version]
- Say Man
- Hush Your Mouth [alternate version]
- Hush Your Mouth
- Bo's Guitar
- Dearest Darling [alternate version]
- Dearest Darling
- The Clock Strikes Twelve
- Willie and Lillie
- Our Love Will Never Go
- Bo Meets the Monster
- I Love You So [First version]
- The Great Grandfather
- Crackin' Up
- Don't Let It Go
- I'm Sorry
- Oh Yea
- Blues Blues
- Intro - Bo Diddley Vamp
- Doctor Jeykill
- Evelee
- I Don't Know Where I've Been
- You Can't Judge a Book
- Road Runner
- I'm a Man
- Mona
- Say Man
- You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
- Bo Diddley
- I'm a Man
- Who Do You Love
- Mona
- Love Me
- Bring It to Jerome
- Crackin' Up
- Hey Bo Diddley
- Road Runner
- Walking and Talking
- Pretty Thing
- Diddley Daddy
- Dearest Darling
- Deep and Deep I Do
- Bo's Bounce
- Crawdad
- Travelin' West
- Live My Live
- Crackin' Up
- I'm Sorry
- Bo's Guitar
- Willie and Lillie
- You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
- Say Man
- The Great Grandfather
- Oh Yea
- Don't Let It Go (Hold On to What You Got)
- Little Girl
- Dearest Darling
- The Clock Strikes Twelve
- Bo Diddley
- Hey Bo Diddley
- I'm a Man
- Bring It to Jerome
- Diddley Daddy
- Before You Accuse Me
- Pretty Thing
- Who Do You Love
- Dearest Darling
- You Can't Judge a Book by It's Cover
- Say, Man
- I'm Looking for a Woman
- Roadrunner
- Mona
- Cops & Robbers
- Who Do You Love
- I Am Looking for a Woman
- You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
- Hey! Bo Diddley
- Hush Your Mouth
- Spanish Guitar
- Diddley Daddy
- Bring It to Jerome
- She's Fine, She's Mine
- Down Home Special
- Before You Accuse Me
- Road Runner
- Nursery Rhyme
- You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover
- Bo Diddley
- Say Man
- The Clock Strikes Twelve
- Dancing Girl
- Diddy Wah Diddy
- Pretty Thing
- Bo's Guitar
- Crackin' Up
- Cops and Robbers
- Willie and Lillie
- I'm Sorry
- Mona (I Need You Baby)
- I'm a Man
- Little Girl
- The Story of Bo Diddley
- Bo Diddley
- Pretty Thing
- I'm a Man
- You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover
- Cops & Robbers
- Bring It to Jerome
- Story of Bo Diddley
- Before You Accuse Me
- Hey Bo Diddley
- I'm Looking for a Woman
- Say Bossman
- Hush Your Mouth
- Live My Life
- Mona
- Diddley Daddy
- Who Do You Love
- Road Runner
- Long Distance Call
- Ooh Baby / Wrecking My Love Life
- Sweet Little Angel
- Spoonful
- Diddley Daddy
- The Red Rooster
- Goin' Down Slow
- Bring It to Jerome
- Cops and Robbers
- Mumblin' Guitar
- Oh Yea
- You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
- Down Home Train
- Bo Diddley Is Loose
- Little Girl
- Call Me (Bo's Blues)
- Don't Let It Go
- Nursery Rhyme
- Dearest Darling
- Gimme Gimme
- Not Guilty
- Scuttle Bug
- Say Man
- Let Me In
- Hong Kong, Mississippi
- Craw-Dad
- Bo's a Lumberjack
- Walkin' and Talkin'
- I Need You Baby
- You're Looking Good
- She's Alright
- Road Runner
- Pretty Thing
- Who Do You Love
- You Can't Judge a Book by Looking at the Cover
- Bo Diddley
- Before You Acuse Me
- Story of Bo Diddley
- Hey Bo Diddley
- Say Man
- I'm Sorry
- Mona
- I'm a Man
- I'm Looking for a Woman
- Live my Life
- Puddle Stomping
- Piece of the Pie
- Bob-along
- Konichi-wa
- Ordinary Extraordinary
- Peanut Butter Blues
- Summertime Song
- I've Got a Friend
- Right Side Up
- I'm a Man
- Little Girl
- You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
- I'm Looking for a Woman
- I'm Bad
- Down Home Special
- Before You Accuse Me
- The Clock Strikes Twelve
- Oh Yea
- Blues Blues
- Signifying Blues
- Live My Life
- I Want My Baby
- Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut
- I'm a Man
- Little Girl
- You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care)
- I'm Looking for a Woman
- I'm Bad
- Who Do You Love
- Down Home Special
- Before You Accuse Me
- The Clock Strikes Twelve
- Oh Yea
- Blues Blues
- Let Me In
- Signifying Blues
- Live My Life
- Call Me
- I Want My Baby
- Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut
- Roadrunner
- I'm a Man
- Crackin' Up
- Hey! Bo Diddley
- Plynth (Water Down the Drain)
- Ooh La La
- They Don't Make Outlaws Like They Used to Anymore
- Honky Tonk Women
- Money to Ronnie
- Who Do You Love?
- Bo Diddley
- I'm a Man
- Diddley Daddy
- Who Do You Love?
- Mona
- I'm Sorry
- Dearest Darling
- Say Man
- Crackin' Up
- Don't Let It Go (Hold on to What You Got)
- Road Runner
- You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover
Born: 1928-12-30
Died: 2008-06-02
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Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley (From "Legends of Rock 'n' Roll" DVD)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:19
- Published: 29 Aug 2008
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
This amazing concert brings together some of the true pioneers of rock 'n' roll music including Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, James Brown, Fats Domino and BBKing. Recorded in Italy in 1989 it features these legendary artists in performance of their best loved tracks such as Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, Bo Diddley, Great Balls Of Fire, Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Blueberry Hill. At the end of the concert all the performers come together for all-star jam that leaves the audience hollering for more. It's a rare event indeed that brings so many great live performers together on one bill and this DVD captures the real excitement of the evening. To order this DVD from Amazon if you are in the UK, please click here: www.amazon.co.uk To order this DVD from amazon if you are in the US, please click here: www.amazon.com
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BO DIDDLEY 1965
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- Duration: 5:31
- Published: 21 Mar 2011
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Bo Diddley
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Bo Diddley LIVE 1973 - "Hey, Bo Diddley"
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- Duration: 4:36
- Published: 13 Apr 2009
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Bomp bomp-a bomp, a bomp-bomp. Nothing fancy.
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Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love
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- Duration: 2:31
- Published: 15 Apr 2009
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love 1956
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Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley (1965)
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- Duration: 2:29
- Published: 31 Jan 2010
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley (Hollywood A Go-Go, 1965)
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45rpm pressing: Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley, 1955 - Checker 814 (1st press!)
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- Duration: 2:44
- Published: 03 Jun 2010
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Yeah, I have a few 45's as well. ;) And this one's indeed an original checker top label pressing. What else can I say abut this one - it's the classic that got Bo rollin'. :) RIP, Bo. Dig.....
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Bo Diddley - Road Runner
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- Duration: 2:29
- Published: 07 Jan 2009
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
This clip shows the crowd really going for it with the dancing, grooming and general behaviour being totally over the top! This man truly knows how to get the 50's throwback crowd going.
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Bo Diddley
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- Duration: 0:54
- Published: 30 Apr 2007
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
real Bo
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Bo Diddley - Mona
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- Duration: 5:39
- Published: 07 Jan 2009
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
This clip shows him to be a true performer, getting the crowd going and doing some fancy footwork to his upbeat catchy tunes. His square guitar during this performance also needs to be noted!
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bo diddley - pretty thing
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- Duration: 2:55
- Published: 18 Nov 2009
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Bo Diddley - You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover
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- Duration: 3:09
- Published: 28 Jan 2011
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
He only had a few hits in the 1950s and early '60s, but as Bo Diddley sang, "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover." You can't judge an artist by his chart success, either, and Diddley produced greater and more influential music than all but a handful of the best early rockers. The Bo Diddley beat -- bomp, ba-bomp-bomp, bomp-bomp -- is one of rock & roll's bedrock rhythms, showing up in the work of Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, and even pop-garage knock-offs like the Strangeloves' 1965 hit "I Want Candy." Diddley's hypnotic rhythmic attack and declamatory, boasting vocals stretched back as far as Africa for their roots, and looked as far into the future as rap. His trademark otherworldly vibrating, fuzzy guitar style did much to expand the instrument's power and range. But even more important, Bo's bounce was fun and irresistibly rocking, with a wisecracking, jiving tone that epitomized rock & roll at its most humorously outlandish and freewheeling. Before taking up blues and R&B, Diddley had actually studied classical violin, but shifted gears after hearing John Lee Hooker. In the early '50s, he began playing with his longtime partner, maraca player Jerome Green, to get what Bo's called "that freight train sound." Billy Boy Arnold, a fine blues harmonica player and singer in his own right, was also playing with Diddley when the guitarist got a deal with Chess in the mid-'50s (after being turned down by rival Chicago label Vee-Jay). His very first single, "Bo Diddley"/"I <b>...</b>
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Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley ～ I'm a Man
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- Duration: 8:55
- Published: 31 Mar 2010
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley ～ I'm a Man
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Bo Diddley Hey! Bo Diddley - 1964
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- Duration: 2:16
- Published: 15 Sep 2010
- Updated: 02 Oct 2012
Apresentação no TAMI SHOW em 1964.
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Chuck Berry & Bo Diddley Together LIVE
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- Duration: 2:12
- Published: 11 Apr 2009
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Sharing the stage, 1973
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Tom Petty, Bo Diddley - Mona
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- Duration: 5:34
- Published: 10 Apr 2007
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Tom Petty and Bo Diddley Live at Filmore performing Mona
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Bo Diddley - I Am A Man
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- Duration: 2:56
- Published: 28 Jan 2011
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
He only had a few hits in the 1950s and early '60s, but as Bo Diddley sang, "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover." You can't judge an artist by his chart success, either, and Diddley produced greater and more influential music than all but a handful of the best early rockers. The Bo Diddley beat -- bomp, ba-bomp-bomp, bomp-bomp -- is one of rock & roll's bedrock rhythms, showing up in the work of Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, and even pop-garage knock-offs like the Strangeloves' 1965 hit "I Want Candy." Diddley's hypnotic rhythmic attack and declamatory, boasting vocals stretched back as far as Africa for their roots, and looked as far into the future as rap. His trademark otherworldly vibrating, fuzzy guitar style did much to expand the instrument's power and range. But even more important, Bo's bounce was fun and irresistibly rocking, with a wisecracking, jiving tone that epitomized rock & roll at its most humorously outlandish and freewheeling. Before taking up blues and R&B, Diddley had actually studied classical violin, but shifted gears after hearing John Lee Hooker. In the early '50s, he began playing with his longtime partner, maraca player Jerome Green, to get what Bo's called "that freight train sound." Billy Boy Arnold, a fine blues harmonica player and singer in his own right, was also playing with Diddley when the guitarist got a deal with Chess in the mid-'50s (after being turned down by rival Chicago label Vee-Jay). His very first single, "Bo Diddley"/"I <b>...</b>
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Bo Diddley - "I Can Tell"
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- Duration: 3:07
- Published: 05 Feb 2009
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Record released on August 18, 1962.
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bo diddley - pills
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- Duration: 2:55
- Published: 18 Nov 2009
- Updated: 30 Sep 2012
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love
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- Duration: 3:30
- Published: 29 Sep 2009
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
Bo knows.
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Bo Diddley - Road Runner (Shindig 1965)
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- Duration: 1:30
- Published: 18 May 2010
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
Bo Diddley - Road Runner (Shindig!, August 18, 1965)
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Buddy Holly - Bo Diddley
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- Duration: 2:26
- Published: 20 May 2010
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
Bo Diddley buy baby a diamond ring if that diamond ring don't shine he gonna take it to a private eye if that private eye can't see he better not take that ring from me Won't you come to my house back at home take a-my baby on away from home love a-that photo, where ya been up to your house and gone again Bo Diddley caught a fat cat to make a-pretty baby a Sunday hat Bo Diddley caught him a nanny goat to make a pretty baby a Sunday coat Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley have you heard my pretty baby says she wants a bird
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BO DIDDLEY never before seen footage!! Diddley Daddy
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- Duration: 9:42
- Published: 09 Jun 2008
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
I shot this footage of Bo doing Diddley Daddy in a small club. This is a different version that you've ever heard before. It is live, raw and unedited. Check out the guitar playing about 3:20 in. Bo was in a good mood and just playing around.
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Bo Diddly on Hollywood a Go Go, Again!
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- Duration: 2:58
- Published: 13 Nov 2006
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
Bo is back, this time with the full introduction and "bio" provided by show host KHJ Radio's "Boss Jock" Sam Riddle. Great song, but the evening is getting late and Bo misses quite a few of his lip sync cues, but still a great piece of history from one of the greatest rock performers of all time.
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"Bo Diddley, Bo Diddley have you heard?" Bo Diddley, born Ellas Otha Bates, in 1928 in the Mississippi Delta, was an American singer/songwriter, guitarist and inventor. Adopted as a baby, his surname was changed to McDaniel in 1934. When his adopted family moved to Chicago in search of a better...(size: 3.2Kb)
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This article is about the singer. For the album, see Bo Diddley (album). For the song, see Bo Diddley (song).
| Bo Diddley | |
|---|---|
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Ellas Otha Bates |
| Also known as | Ellas McDaniel |
| Born | (1928-12-30)December 30, 1928 McComb, Mississippi, United States |
| Died | June 2, 2008(2008-06-02) (aged 79) Archer, Florida, United States |
| Genres | Chicago blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, blues |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, electric guitar, violin, synthesizer, keyboards, piano, organ, percussion, drums |
| Years active | 1943–2008 |
| Labels | Checker, Chess, BoKay Productions, RCA, MF Productions, Triple X, Atlantic |
| Website | BoDiddley.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Gretsch G6138 | |
Ellas Otha Bates (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter (usually as Ellas McDaniel), and rock and roll pioneer. He was also known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from the blues to rock & roll, influencing a host of acts, including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton,[1] The Beatles,[2] and George Michael, among others.[3] He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard-edged electric guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs, along with African rhythms and a signature beat (a simple, five-accent rhythm) that remains a cornerstone of rock and pop.[3][2][4] Accordingly, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation[3][5] and a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He was known in particular for his technical innovations, including his trademark rectangular guitar.
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History[link]
Early life and career[link]
Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Otha Bates,[6] he was adopted and raised by his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed, becoming Ellas McDaniel. In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young man dropped the name Otha and became known as Ellas McDaniel, until his musical ambitions demanded that he take on a more catchy identity. In Chicago, he was an active member of his local Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he studied the trombone and the violin, becoming proficient enough on the latter for the musical director to invite him to join the orchestra, with which he performed until the age of 18. He was more impressed, however, by the pulsating, rhythmic music he heard at a local Pentecostal Church, as well as an interest in the guitar.[7][8]
Inspired by a concert where he saw John Lee Hooker perform,[9] he supplemented his work as a carpenter and mechanic with a developing career playing on street corners with friends, including Jerome Green (c. 1934–1973),[10] in a band called The Hipsters (later The Langley Avenue Jive Cats). During the summer of 1943–44, he played for tips at the Maxwell Street market in a band with Earl Hooker.[11] By 1951 he was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson (on washtub bass) and Jody Williams (whom he had taught to play the guitar).[12][13] Williams later played lead guitar on "Who Do You Love?" (1956).[12] In 1951 he landed a regular spot at the 708 Club on Chicago's South Side, with a repertoire influenced by Louis Jordan, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters.
In late 1954, he teamed up with harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, drummer Clifton James, and bass player Roosevelt Jackson, and recorded demos of "I'm A Man" and "Bo Diddley". They re-recorded the songs at Chess Studios with a backing ensemble comprising Otis Spann (piano), Lester Davenport (harmonica), Frank Kirkland (drums), and Jerome Green (maracas). The record was released in March 1955, and the A-side, "Bo Diddley", became a #1 R&B hit.
Stage Name[link]
McDaniel adopted the stage name "Bo Diddley". The origin of the name is somewhat unclear, as several differing stories and claims exist. Diddley claims that his peers gave him the nickname, which he first suspected to be an insult.[14] Bo Diddley himself said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley's first single, and guitar craftsman Ed Roman reported that another (unspecified) source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.[15]
A "diddley bow" is a typically homemade American string instrument of African origin, probably developed from instruments found on the coast of west Africa.[16]
The American slang phrase "bo diddly" meaning "absolutely nothing" goes back possibly to the early 20th century or earlier. "Diddly" is a truncation of "diddly-squat", retaining the same meaning[17] of "nothing"[18] and "bo" is an intensifier.[19]
Success in the 1950s and 1960s[link]
On November 20, 1955, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, a popular television variety show, where he infuriated the host. "I did two songs and he got mad," Bo Diddley later recalled. "Ed Sullivan said that I was one of the first colored boys to ever double-cross him. Said that I wouldn't last six months". The show had requested that he sing the Merle Travis-penned Tennessee Ernie Ford hit "Sixteen Tons", but when he appeared on stage, he sang "Bo Diddley" instead. This substitution resulted in his being banned from further appearances.
The request came about because Sullivan's people heard Diddley casually singing "Sixteen Tons" in the dressing room. Diddley's accounts of the event were inconsistent.[20]
Diddley was an excellent story teller whose stories varied from time to time, however, Diddley contended to friends and family that he was not trying to double-cross Sullivan and attributed the "misunderstanding" to the fact that; when he saw "Bo Diddley" on a cue card, he was under the impression he was to perform two songs, "Bo Diddley" and "Sixteen Tons".
Chess included Diddley's recording of "Sixteen Tons" on the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger,[21] which was originally released in 1960.[22]
He continued to have hits through the rest of the 1950s and even the 1960s, including "Pretty Thing" (1956), "Say Man" (1959), and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" (1962). He released a string of albums whose titles, including Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger and Have Guitar, Will Travel, bolstered his self-invented legend. Between 1958 and 1963, Checker Records released 11 full-length albums by Bo Diddley. Although he broke through as a crossover artist with white audiences (appearing at the Alan Freed concerts, for example), he rarely tailored his compositions to teenage concerns.
In 1963, he starred in a UK concert tour with the Everly Brothers and Little Richard. The Rolling Stones, still barely known outside London at that time, appeared as a supporting act on the same bill.
In addition to the many songs recorded by him, in 1956 he co-wrote, with Jody Williams, the pioneering pop song "Love Is Strange", a hit for Mickey & Sylvia in 1957.[23]
Bo Diddley was one of the first American male musicians to include women in his band, including "The Duchess" Norma-Jean Wofford, Peggy Jones (aka "Lady Bo"), Cornelia Redmond (aka Cookie), and Debby Hastings, who led his band for the final 25 years of his performing career. After moving from his home in Chicago to Washington, D.C., he set up one of the first home recording studios where he not only recorded the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger but he recorded his valet, Marvin Gaye. The Diddley-penned, Wyatt Earp was a single released on Okeh Records, since the Chess brothers did not want to release the record. Also during this time, Moonglows founder Harvey Fuqua who sang background on many of Diddley's home studio recordings was introduced to Gaye, and asked him to join the Moonglows. When Fuqua went to Motown, Gaye followed.[9]
Later years[link]
Over the decades, Bo Diddley's venues ranged from intimate clubs to stadiums. On March 25, 1972, he played with The Grateful Dead at the Academy of Music in New York City. The Grateful Dead released part of this concert as Volume 30 of the band's Dick's Picks concert album series. Also in the early 1970s, the soundtrack for the ground-breaking animated film Fritz The Cat contained his song "Bo Diddley", in which a crow idly finger-pops along to the track.
Bo Diddley spent many years in New Mexico, living in Los Lunas, New Mexico from 1971 to 1978 while continuing his musical career. He served for two and a half years as Deputy Sheriff in the Valencia County Citizens' Patrol; during that time he personally purchased and donated three highway patrol pursuit cars.[24] In the late 1970s, Diddley left Los Lunas and moved to Hawthorne, Florida where he lived on a large estate in a custom made log-cabin home, which he helped to build. For the remainder of his life he spent time between Albuquerque, New Mexico and Florida, living the last 13 years of his life in Archer, Florida, a small farming town near Gainesville.
He appeared as an opening act for The Clash in their 1979 US tour; in Legends of Guitar (filmed live in Spain, 1991) with B.B. King, Les Paul, Albert Collins, George Benson, among others, and joined The Rolling Stones as a guest on their 1994 concert broadcast of Voodoo Lounge, performing "Who Do You Love?" with the band. Sheryl Crow and Robert Cray also appeared on the pay-per-view special.
Illness[link]
On May 13, 2007, Bo Diddley was admitted to intensive care in Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, following a stroke after a concert in Council Bluffs, Iowa on May 12.[25] Starting the show, he had complained that he did not feel well. He referred to smoke from the wildfires that were ravaging South Georgia and blowing south to the area near his home in Archer, Florida. Nonetheless, he delivered an energetic performance to an enthusiastic crowd. The next day, as Bo Diddley was heading back home, he seemed dazed and confused at the airport. His manager, Margo Lewis, called 911 and airport security and Bo was immediately taken by ambulance to Creighton University Medical Center and admitted to the Intensive-care unit, where he stayed for several days. After numerous tests, it was confirmed that Bo Diddley had suffered a stroke.[26] He had a history of hypertension and diabetes, and the stroke affected the left side of his brain, causing receptive and expressive aphasia (speech impairment).[27] The stroke was followed by a heart attack, suffered in Gainesville, Florida, on August 28, 2007.[28]
While recovering from the stroke and heart attack, Diddley came back to his home town of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007 for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the National Blues Trail stating that he was "acclaimed as a founder of rock and roll." He was not supposed to perform, but as he listened to the music of local musician Jesse Robinson who sang a song written for this occasion, Robinson sensed that he wanted to perform and handed him a microphone. That was the first and last time that Bo Diddley performed publicly after suffering a stroke.[29]
Death[link]
Bo Diddley died on June 2, 2008 of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida.[30][31] Garry Mitchell, a grandson of Diddley and one of more than 35 family members at the musician's home when he died at 1:45 a.m. EDT (05:45 GMT), said his death was not unexpected. "There was a gospel song that was sung (at his bedside) and (when it was done) he said 'wow' with a thumbs up," Mitchell told Reuters, when asked to describe the scene at Diddley's deathbed. "The song was 'Walk Around Heaven' and in his last words he said 'I'm going to heaven.'"[32]
His funeral, a four-hour "homegoing" service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida and kept in tune with the vibrant spirit of Bo Diddley's life and career. The many in attendance chanted "Hey Bo Diddley" as a gospel band played the legend's music. A number of notable musicians sent flowers, including: George Thorogood, Tom Petty, and Jerry Lee Lewis.[33][34] Little Richard, who had been asking his audiences to pray for Bo Diddley throughout his illness, had to fulfill concert commitments in Westbury and New York City the weekend of the funeral. He took time to remember Bo Diddley, his friend of a half-century, performing his namesake tune in his honor.[35]
After the funeral service, a tribute concert was held at the Martin Luther King Center, also in Gainesville, and featured performances by his son and daughter, Anthony McDaniel and Evelyn Kelly, long-time background vocalist Gloria Jolivet, co-producer Scott "Skyntyte" Free, Diddley's touring band, The Debby Hastings Band, and guest artist Eric Burdon.
In the days following his death, tributes were paid to him by then-President George W. Bush, the United States House of Representatives, and an uncounted number of musicians and performers, including Eric Burdon, Elvis Costello, Ronnie Hawkins, Mick Jagger, B. B. King, Tom Petty, Robert Plant, Bonnie Raitt, George Thorogood, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, the Black Lips and Ronnie Wood. He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its "People in America" radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how "his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him." Mick Jagger stated that "he was a wonderful, original musician who was an enormous force in music and was a big influence on The Rolling Stones. He was very generous to us in our early years and we learned a lot from him." Jagger also praised the late star as a one of a kind musician, adding, "We will never see his like again.[36] As his bass player Debby Hastings said: he was the rock that the roll was built on."[citation needed]
The documentary film Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street by director Phil Ranstrom features Bo Diddley's last on-camera interview.[37]
In November 2009 the guitar used by Diddley in his last-ever stage performance sold for $60,000 at auction.[citation needed]
Bit acting parts[link]
His pawnbroker character's offering Louis Winthorpe III "fifty bucks" created one of more quoted scenes in 1983's Trading Places. In the late 1980s, he teamed with Bo Jackson in Nike's famous "Bo Knows" commercials, saying his one line: "Bo, you don't know Diddley!"
In 1998, Bo appeared alongside legendary guitarists B.B. King, Eric Clapton, and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter as members of the Louisiana Gator Boys in the film Blues Brothers 2000.
In 2003, Bo was cast as himself in an episode of According to Jim, titled Bo Diddley.
Music Videos[link]
In 1982, Bo was featured in the music video, Bad To The Bone by George Thorogood and the Destroyers as a pool shark. Bo also had small Part in an Episode of Disney TV Show "So Weird" (1999-2001) playing a Shopkeeper.
Accolades[link]
Bo Diddley achieved numerous accolades in recognition of his significant role as one of the founding fathers of rock and roll.
- 1986: inducted into the Washington Area Music Association's Hall of Fame.
- 1987: inducted the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
- 1990: Lifetime Achievement Award from Guitar Player magazine.
- 1998: Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
- 1999: His 1955 recording of his song "Bo Diddley" inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of lasting qualitative or historical significance.
- 2000: Inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame and into the North Florida Music Association's Hall of Fame.
- 2002: Pioneer in Entertainment Award from the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters
- 2002: Bo Diddley was honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards. He was presented the award along with BMI affiliates Chuck Berry and Little Richard.[38]
- 2008: Although confirmed before his death in June 2008, an honorary degree was posthumously conferred upon Diddley by the University of Florida in August 2008.
- 2009: Florida's Secretary of State announces Bo's induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame (induction to occur during Florida Heritage Month, March 2010).
- 2010: Bo Diddley was inducted into the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.[citation needed]
In 2003, U.S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives describing him as "one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations".[39]
In 2004, Mickey and Sylvia's 1956 recording of his song "Love Is Strange" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame as a recording of qualitative or historical significance, and he was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him #20 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[40]
In 2005, Bo Diddley celebrated his 50th anniversary in music with successful tours of Australia and Europe, and with coast-to-coast shows across North America. He performed his song "Bo Diddley" with Eric Clapton, Robbie Robertson, and longtime bassist and musical director Debby Hastings at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 20th annual induction ceremony and in the UK, Uncut magazine included his 1957 debut album "Bo Diddley" in its listing of the '100 Music, Movie & TV Moments That Have Changed The World'.
In 2006, Bo Diddley participated as the headliner of a grassroots organized fundraiser concert, to benefit the town of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, which had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The "Florida Keys for Katrina Relief" had originally been set for October 23, 2005, when Hurricane Wilma barreled through the Florida Keys on October 24, causing flooding and economic mayhem. In January 2006, the Florida Keys had recovered enough to host the fundraising concert to benefit the more hard-hit community of Ocean Springs. When asked about the fundraiser Bo Diddley stated, "This is the United States of America. We believe in helping one another.".[41] In an interview with Holger Petersen, on Saturday Night Blues on CBC Radio in the fall of 2006[42] Bo Diddley commented about the racism that existed in the music industry establishment during the early part of his career that saw him deprived of his royalties from the most successful part of his career.
Bo Diddley performed a number of shows around the country in 2005 and 2006 with the fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Johnnie Johnson Band, featuring Johnson on keyboards, Richard Hunt on drums, and Gus Thornton on bass. But from 1985 until he died, his touring band consisted of Debby Hastings (bass/musical director), Frank Daley or Nunzio Signore (guitar), Tom Major, Dave Johnson, Yoshi Shimada or Sandy Gennaro (drums), and his personal manager, Margo Lewis (keyboards).
The Bo Diddley beat[link]
Bo Diddley was well known for the Bo Diddley beat, which is essentially the clave rhythm, and one of the most common bell patterns found in sub-Saharan African music traditions.[43] Bo Diddley has given different accounts of the riff's origins. Sublette asserts: "In the context of the time, and especially those maracas [heard on the record], 'Bo Diddley' has to be understood as a Latin-tinged record. A rejected cut recorded at the same session was titled only 'Rhumba' on the track sheets."[44] The Bo Diddley beat is similar to "hambone", a style used by street performers who play out the beat by slapping and patting their arms, legs, chest, and cheeks while chanting rhymes.[45] Somewhat resembling "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm, Diddley came across it while trying to play Gene Autry's "(I've Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle".[46] Three years before Bo's "Bo Diddley", a song similar syncopation "Hambone", was cut by Red Saunders' Orchestra with The Hambone Kids. In 1944, "Rum and Coca Cola", containing the Bo Diddley beat, was recorded by The Andrews Sisters and later Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" (1957) and Them's "Mystic Eyes" (1965) used the beat.[47] In its simplest form, the Bo Diddley beat can be counted out as either a on-bar, or a two-bar phrase.
Other songs employing the Bo Diddley beat include "Magic Bus by The Who," "Rudie Can't Fail" by The Clash, "Get Me to the World on Time" by The Electric Prunes, "1969" by The Stooges, "Mr. Brownstone" by Guns N' Roses, and "Party at the Leper Colony" by "Weird Al" Yankovic.[48]
Here is the count as a one-bar phrase: One e and ah, two e and ah, three e and ah, four e and ah. The bolded counts are the clave rhythm.
Many songs (for example, "Hey Bo Diddley" and "Who Do You Love?") often have no chord changes; that is, the musicians play the same chord throughout the piece, so that the rhythms create the excitement, rather than having the excitement generated by harmonic tension and release. In his other recordings, Bo Diddley used a variety of rhythms, from straight back beat to pop ballad style to doo-wop, frequently with maracas by Jerome Green.
Also an influential guitar player, he developed many special effects and other innovations in tone and attack. Bo Diddley's trademark instrument was the rectangular-bodied Gretsch nicknamed "The Twang Machine" (referred to as "cigar-box shaped" by music promoter Dick Clark). Although he had other odd-shaped guitars custom-made for him by other manufacturers throughout the years, most notably the "Cadillac" design made by Tom Holmes (who also made guitars for ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, among others), Diddley fashioned the square guitar himself around 1958 and wielded it in thousands of concerts over the years. In a 2005 interview on JJJ radio in Australia, Bo implied that the design sprang from an embarrassing moment. During an early gig, while jumping around on stage with a Gibson L5 guitar, he landed awkwardly hurting his groin.[49][50] He then went about designing a smaller, less restrictive guitar that allowed him to keep jumping around on stage while still playing his guitar. He also played the violin, which is featured on his mournful instrumental "The Clock Strikes Twelve", a twelve-bar blues.[51]
He often created lyrics as witty and humorous adaptations of folk music themes. The song "Bo Diddley" was based on the African American clapping rhyme "Hambone" (which in turn was based on the lullaby "Hush Little Baby"). Likewise, "Hey Bo Diddley" is based on the song "Old MacDonald". The rap-style boasting of "Who Do You Love", a wordplay on hoodoo, used many striking lyrics from the African-American tradition of toasts and boasts. His "Say Man" and "Say Man, Back Again," both of which were later cited as progenerators of hip-hop music, share a strong connection to the insult game known as "the dozens". For example: "You got the nerve to call somebody ugly, why you so ugly the stork that brought you into the world ought to be arrested".[52]
I used to get mad about people recording my things; now I got a new thing going. ... I don't get mad about them recording my material because they keep me alive.
Bo Diddley, 1969 Pop Chronicles interview.[53]
Notable cover versions[link]
Bo Diddley's songs have frequently been covered by other artists.
- Captain Beefheart covered "Diddy Wah Diddy" in 1966. The Blues Band and Tom Petty have played the
song in concert.
- Buddy Holly's rendition of "Bo Diddley" (recorded in 1957) was a posthumous top-10 hit in the UK, peaking at No. 7 in the summer of 1963.
- The Rolling Stones covered several Bo Diddley numbers in concert and in early BBC Radio broadcasts. In 1964 they released "I Need You Baby (Mona)" on the UK version of their first album (the US version featured their cover of the Diddley-inspired Buddy Holly song "Not Fade Away").
- The Kinks covered "Cadillac" on their debut album in 1964.
- The Pretty Things covered "Road Runner", "She's Fine, She's Mine" and "Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut" on their debut album in 1965, where "Road Runner" was featured as the opening track. "Road Runner" has also been covered by Humble Pie, The Zombies, The Animals, The Who and Aerosmith.
- The Animals and Bob Seger have both covered "The Story of Bo Diddley".
- Long John Baldry covered Bo Diddley's song "You Can't Judge a Book" on his 1972 album Everything Stops for Tea.
- The Yardbirds,[53] The Who, Dr. Feelgood, Tom Petty, The Remains and the Dutch group Q65 covered "I'm a Man".
- The Grateful Dead, The Woolies, George Thorogood, Dion, Townes Van Zandt, Ronnie Hawkins, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Juicy Lucy covered "Who Do You Love", which was also a concert favorite of The Doors.
- Quicksilver Messenger Service covered both "Who Do You Love" and "Mona".
- Creedence Clearwater Revival and Eric Clapton have both covered "Before You Accuse Me".
- The New York Dolls and The Lurkers have both recorded their own versions of the song "Pills".
- Dr. Feelgood led off their second album, Malpractice (1975), with a cover of "I Can Tell."
- The Clash recorded "Mona" during the London Calling sessions.
- Ex-Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker counts Diddley as one of her chief influences and covered "Bo Diddley" on her 1989 solo album, Life in Exile After Abdication.
- Chris Isaak covered "Diddley Daddy" on his third album, Heart Shaped World (1989).
- Craig McLachlan, an Australian soap opera star, reached Number 2 in the UK singles charts in 1990 with a version of "Mona" that inserted the chord change Buddy Holly used in the Diddley-inspired "Not Fade Away"
- Black Strobe covered "I'm a Man" on their Album Burn Your Own Church (2007).
- Tom Petty has played "I Need You Baby (Mona)" in concert, and performed it with Diddley himself in 1999.[28]
Historic marker and other dedications[link]
Bo Diddley was honored by the Mississippi Blues Commission with a Mississippi Blues Trail historic marker placed in McComb, his birthplace, in recognition of his enormous contribution to the development of the blues in Mississippi.[54]
On June 5, 2009 the city of Gainesville, Florida, officially renamed and dedicated its downtown plaza the Bo Diddley Community Plaza. The plaza was the site of many benefit concerts at which Bo Diddley performed during his lifetime to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless in Alachua County, and to raise money for local charities, including the Red Cross.
The Obamas' dog, Bo, is also said to be named after him.
The Mario characters known as Boos were originally called "Boo Diddleys" in Super Mario Bros. 3 as a reference to Bo Diddley, though this was long before Bo Diddley died.
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore did a sketch in which Moore played a character called "(the famous coloured singer) Bo Dudley" in reference to Diddley. Moore's vocal performance during the sketch, however, was a parody of James Brown's "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag".
Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain have frequently cited Bo Diddley as an influence. This is most notable via the song 'Bo Diddley Is Jesus', a b-side to their 1987 UK Top Ten hit April Skies, the 12-inch version of which also included a cover of Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love?.
Discography[link]
Main article: Bo Diddley discography
Books[link]
- George R. White, Living Legend, Sanctuary Publishing Ltd, 1995.
- Laurent Arsicaud, Bo Diddley, Je suis un homme, Camion Blanc editions, 2012.
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| Name | Diddley, Bo |
| Alternative names | Bates, Ellas Otha; McDaniel, Ellas |
| Short description | Rock and roll guitarist, singer, songwriter |
| Date of birth | December 30, 1928 |
| Place of birth | McComb, Mississippi, United States |
| Date of death | June 2, 2008 |
| Place of death | Archer, Florida, United States |
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| Chuck Berry | |
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 Berry in Örebro, Sweden, on July 18, 2007 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Charles Edward Anderson Berry |
| Born | (1926-10-18) October 18, 1926 (age 85) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Genres | Rock and roll, blues, rhythm and blues |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1955–present |
| Labels | Chess, Mercury, Atco |
| Website | www.chuckberry.com |
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Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.[1]
Born into a middle class family in St. Louis, Missouri, Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School. While still a high school student he served a prison sentence for armed robbery between 1944 and 1947. On his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant. By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of blues player T-Bone Walker, he was performing in the evenings with the Johnnie Johnson Trio.[2] His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955, and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess of Chess Records. With Chess he recorded "Maybellene"—Berry's adaptation of the country song "Ida Red"—which sold over a million copies, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues chart. By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star with several hit records and film appearances to his name as well as a lucrative touring career. He had also established his own St. Louis-based nightclub, called Berry's Club Bandstand. But in January 1962, Berry was sentenced to three years in prison for offenses under the Mann Act—he had transported a 14-year-old girl across state lines.[2][3][4]
After his release in 1963, Berry had several more hits, including "No Particular Place to Go", "You Never Can Tell", and "Nadine", but these did not achieve the same success, or lasting impact, of his 1950s songs, and by the 1970s he was more in demand as a nostalgic live performer, playing his past hits with local backup bands of variable quality.[2] His insistence on being paid cash led to a jail sentence in 1979—four months and community service for tax evasion.
Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986, with the comment that he "laid the groundwork for not only a rock and roll sound but a rock and roll stance."[5] Berry is included in several Rolling Stone "Greatest of All Time" lists, including being ranked fifth on their 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[6] The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll included three of Chuck Berry's songs: "Johnny B. Goode", "Maybellene", and "Rock and Roll Music".[7] Today – at the age of 85 – Berry continues to play live.
Early life and apprenticeship with Johnnie Johnson (1926–54)[link]
Born in St. Louis, Missouri,[8] Berry was the fourth child in a family of six. He grew up in the north St. Louis neighborhood known as "The Ville," an area where many middle class St. Louis people lived at the time. His father, Henry, was a contractor and deacon of a nearby Baptist church, his mother Martha a certified public school principal. His middle class upbringing allowed him to pursue his interest in music from an early age and he gave his first public performance in 1941 while still at Sumner High School.[9] Just three years later, in 1944, while still at Sumner High School, he was arrested and convicted of armed robbery after robbing three shops in Kansas City and then stealing a car at gunpoint with some friends.[10][11] Berry's own account in his autobiography is that his car broke down and he then flagged down a passing car and stole it at gunpoint with a non-functional pistol.[12][13] Berry was sent to the Intermediate Reformatory for Young Men at Algoa, near Jefferson City, Missouri,[8] where he formed a singing quartet and did some boxing.[10]
After his release from prison on his 21st birthday in 1947, Berry married Themetta "Toddy" Suggs on October 28, 1948, who gave birth to Darlin Ingrid Berry on October 3, 1950.[14] Berry supported his family doing a number of jobs in St. Louis: working briefly as a factory worker at two automobile assembly plants, as well as being janitor for the apartment building where he and his wife lived. Afterwards he trained as a beautician at the Poro College of Cosmetology, founded by Annie Turnbo Malone.[15] He was doing well enough by 1950 to buy a "small three room brick cottage with a bath" in Whittier Street,[16] which is now listed as the Chuck Berry House on the National Register of Historic Places.[17]
By the early 1950s, Berry was working with local bands in the clubs of St. Louis as an extra source of income.[16] He had been playing the blues since his teens, and he borrowed both guitar riffs and showmanship techniques from blues player T-Bone Walker,[18] as well as taking guitar lessons from his friend Ira Harris that laid the foundation for his guitar style.[19] By early 1953 Berry was performing with Johnnie Johnson's trio, starting a long-time collaboration with the pianist.[20] Although the band played mostly blues and ballads, the most popular music among whites in the area was country. Berry wrote, "Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering 'who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?' After they laughed at me a few times they began requesting the hillbilly stuff and enjoyed dancing to it."[8]
Berry's calculated showmanship, along with mixing country tunes with R&B tunes, and singing in the style of Nat "King" Cole to the music of Muddy Waters, brought in a wider audience, particularly affluent white people.[2][21]
Signing with Chess: "Maybellene" to "Come On" (1955–62)[link]
In May 1955, Berry traveled to Chicago where he met Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess of Chess Records. Berry thought his blues material would be of most interest to Chess, but to his surprise it was an old country and western recording by Bob Wills, entitled "Ida Red" that got Chess's attention. Chess had seen the rhythm and blues market shrink and was looking to move beyond it, and he thought Berry might be the artist for that purpose. So on May 21, 1955 Berry recorded an adaptation of "Ida Red"—"Maybellene"—which featured Johnnie Johnson on piano, Jerome Green (from Bo Diddley's band) on the maracas, Jasper Thomas on the drums and Willie Dixon on the bass. "Maybellene" sold over a million copies, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues chart and No. 5 on the September 10, 1955 Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart.[8][22]
At the end of June 1956, his song "Roll Over Beethoven" reached No. 29 on the Billboard Top 100 chart, and Berry toured as one of the "Top Acts of '56". He and Carl Perkins became friends. Perkins said that "I knew when I first heard Chuck that he'd been affected by country music. I respected his writing; his records were very, very great." As they toured, Perkins discovered that Berry not only liked country music, but knew about as many songs as he did. Jimmie Rodgers was one of his favorites. "Chuck knew every Blue Yodel and most of Bill Monroe's songs as well," Perkins remembered. "He told me about how he was raised very poor, very tough. He had a hard life. He was a good guy. I really liked him."[23]
In late 1957, Berry took part in Alan Freed's "Biggest Show of Stars for 1957" United States tour with the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, and others.[24] He also guest starred on ABC's The Guy Mitchell Show, having sung his hit song "Rock 'n' Roll Music". The hits continued from 1957 to 1959, with Berry scoring over a dozen chart singles during this period, including the top 10 US hits "School Days", "Rock and Roll Music", "Sweet Little Sixteen", and "Johnny B. Goode". He appeared in two early rock and roll movies. The first was Rock Rock Rock, released in 1956. He is shown singing "You Can't Catch Me." He had a speaking role as himself in the 1959 film Go, Johnny, Go! along with Alan Freed, and was also shown performing his songs "Johnny B. Goode," "Memphis, Tennessee," and "Little Queenie." His performance of "Sweet Little Sixteen" at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958 is captured in the motion picture Jazz on a Summer's Day.[25]
By the end of the 1950s, Berry was an established star with several hit records and film appearances to his name, as well as a lucrative touring career. He had established a racially integrated St. Louis-based nightclub, called Berry's Club Bandstand, and was investing in real estate.[26] But in December 1959, Berry was arrested under the Mann Act after an allegation that he had sex with a 14-year-old Apache waitress whom he had transported over state lines to work as a hat check girl at his club.[27] After an initial two-week trial in March 1960, Berry was convicted, fined $5,000, and sentenced to five years in prison.[28] Berry's appeal that the judge's comments and attitude were racist and prejudiced the jury against him was upheld,[3][29] and a second trial was heard in May and June 1961,[30] which resulted in Berry being given a three-year prison sentence.[12] After another appeal failed, Berry served one and one half years in prison from February 1962 to October 1963.[12] Berry had continued recording and performing during the trials, though his output had slowed down as his popularity declined; his final single released before being imprisoned was "Come On".[31]
"Nadine" and move to Mercury (1963–69)[link]
When Berry was released from prison in 1963, he was able to return to recording and performing due to the British invasion acts of the 1960s—most notably The Beatles and The Rolling Stones—having kept up an interest in his music by releasing cover versions of his songs;[32][33] along with other bands reworking his songs, such as the Beach Boys basing their 1963 hit "Surfin' USA" on Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen".[34] In 1964–65 Berry released eight singles, including three, "No Particular Place to Go" (a reworking of "School Day"),[35] "You Never Can Tell", and "Nadine,"[36] which achieved commercial success, reaching the top 20 of the Billboard 100. Between 1966 and 1969 Berry released five albums on the Mercury label, including his first live album Live at Fillmore Auditorium in which he was backed by the Steve Miller Band.[37][38]
While this was not a successful period for studio work,[39] Berry was still a top concert draw. In May 1964, he did a successful tour of the UK,[35] though when he returned in January 1965 his behavior was erratic and moody, and his touring style of using unrehearsed local backing bands and a strict non-negotiable contract was earning him a reputation as a difficult yet unexciting performer.[40] He also played at large events in North America, such as the Schaefer Music Festival in New York City's Central Park in July 1969, and the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival in October.[41]
Back to Chess: "My Ding-a-Ling" to White House concert (1970–79)[link]
Berry helped give life to a subculture... Even "My Ding-a-Ling", a fourth-grade wee-wee joke that used to mortify true believers at college concerts, permitted a lot of twelve-year-olds new insight into the moribund concept of "dirty" when it hit the airwaves...
Robert Christgau[42]
Berry returned to Chess from 1970 to 1973. There were no hit singles from the 1970 album Back Home, then in 1972 Chess released a live recording of "My Ding-a-Ling", a novelty song which Berry had recorded in a different version on his 1968 LP From St. Louie to Frisco as "My Tambourine".[43] The track became Berry's only No. 1 single. A live recording of "Reelin' And Rockin'" was also issued as a follow-up single that same year and would prove to be Berry's final top-40 hit in both the US and the UK. Both singles were featured on the part-live/part-studio album The London Chuck Berry Sessions which was one of a series of London Sessions albums which included other Chess mainstay artists Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. Berry's second tenure with Chess ended with the 1975 album Chuck Berry, after which he did not make a studio record until 1979's Rock It for Atco Records, his last studio album to date.[44]
In the 1970s Berry toured on the basis of his earlier successes. He was on the road for many years, carrying only his Gibson guitar, confident that he could hire a band that already knew his music no matter where he went. Allmusic has said that in this period his "live performances became increasingly erratic, [...] working with terrible backup bands and turning in sloppy, out-of-tune performances" which "tarnished his reputation with younger fans and oldtimers" alike.[45] Among the many bandleaders performing a backup role with Chuck Berry were Bruce Springsteen and Steve Miller when each was just starting his career. Springsteen related in the video Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll that Berry did not even give the band a set list and just expected the musicians to follow his lead after each guitar intro. Berry neither spoke to nor thanked the band after the show. Nevertheless, Springsteen backed Berry again when he appeared at the concert for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. At the request of Jimmy Carter, Chuck Berry performed at the White House on June 1, 1979.[38]
Berry's type of touring style, traveling the "oldies" circuit in the 1970s (where he was often paid in cash by local promoters) added ammunition to the Internal Revenue Service's accusations that Berry was a chronic income tax evader. Facing criminal sanction for the third time, Berry pleaded guilty to tax evasion and was sentenced to four months in prison and 1,000 hours of community service—doing benefit concerts—in 1979.[46]
Still on the road (1980–present)[link]
Berry continued to play 70 to 100 one-nighters per year in the 1980s, still traveling solo and requiring a local band to back him at each stop. In 1986, Taylor Hackford made a documentary film, Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, of a celebration concert for Berry's sixtieth birthday, organised by Keith Richards, in which Berry reveals his bitterness at the fame and financial success that Richards achieved on the back of Berry's songs.[47] Eric Clapton, Etta James, Julian Lennon, Robert Cray and Linda Ronstadt, among others, appeared with Berry on stage and film. During the concert, Berry played a Gibson ES-355, the luxury version of the ES-335 that he favored on his 1970s tours. Richards played a black Fender Telecaster Custom, Cray a Fender Stratocaster and Clapton a Gibson ES 350T, the same guitar Berry used on his early recordings.[48]
In the late 1980s, Berry bought a restaurant in Wentzville, Missouri, called The Southern Air,[49] and in 1990 he was sued by several women who claimed that he had installed a video camera in the ladies' bathroom. Berry claimed that he had the camera installed to catch red-handed a worker who was suspected of stealing from the restaurant. Though his guilt was never proven in court, Berry opted for a class action settlement with 59 women. Berry's biographer, Bruce Pegg, estimated that it cost Berry over $1.2 million plus legal fees.[50] It was during this time that he began using Wayne T. Schoeneberg as his legal counsel. Reportedly, a police raid on his house did find videotapes of women using the restroom, and one of the women was a minor. Also found in the raid were 62 grams of marijuana. Felony drug and child-abuse charges were filed. In order to avoid the child-abuse charges, Berry agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor possession of marijuana. He was given a six-month suspended jail sentence, two years' unsupervised probation, and ordered to donate $5,000 to a local hospital.[51]
In November 2000, Berry again faced legal charges when he was sued by his former pianist Johnnie Johnson, who claimed that he co-wrote over 50 songs, including "No Particular Place to Go", "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll Over Beethoven", that credit Berry alone. The case was dismissed when the judge ruled that too much time had passed since the songs were written.[52]
Currently, Berry usually performs one Wednesday each month at Blueberry Hill, a restaurant and bar located in the Delmar Loop neighborhood in St. Louis. In 2008, Berry toured Europe, with stops in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland, and Spain. In mid-2008, he played at Virgin Festival in Baltimore, MD.[53] He presently lives in Ladue, Missouri, approximately 10 miles west of St. Louis.[54] During a New Year's Day 2011 concert in Chicago, Berry, suffering from exhaustion, passed out and had to be helped off stage.[55]
Legacy[link]
While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together. It was his particular genius to graft country & western guitar licks onto a rhythm & blues chassis in his very first single, "Maybellene."
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame[56]
A pioneer of rock music, Berry was a significant influence on the development of both the music and the attitude associated with the rock music lifestyle. With songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics successfully aimed to appeal to the early teenage market by using graphic and humorous descriptions of teen dances, fast cars, high-school life, and consumer culture,[2] and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.[1] His records are a rich storehouse of the essential lyrical, showmanship and musical components of rock and roll; and, in addition to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, a large number of significant popular-music performers have recorded Berry's songs.[2] Though not technically accomplished, his guitar style is distinctive – he incorporated electronic effects to mimic the sound of bottleneck blues guitarists, and drew on the influence of guitar players such as Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker[2] to produce a clear and exciting sound that many later guitar musicians would acknowledge as a major influence in their own style.[51] In the film Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll Eric Clapton states 'If you wanna play rock and roll – or any upbeat number – and you wanted to take a guitar ride you would end up playing like Chuck...because there is very little other choice. There's not a lot of other ways to play rock and roll other than the way Chuck plays it; he's really laid the law down..." In 1992 Keith Richards told Best of Guitar Player "Chuck was my man. He was the one who made me say 'I want to play guitar, Jesus Christ!'...Suddenly I knew what I wanted to do." Berry's showmanship has been influential on other rock guitar players,[57] particularly his one-legged hop routine,[58] and the "duck walk",[59] which he first used as a child when he walked "stooping with full-bended knees, but with my back and head vertical" under a table to retrieve a ball and his family found it entertaining; he used it when "performing in New York for the first time and some journalist branded it the duck walk."[60][61]
The rock critic Robert Christgau considers him "the greatest of the rock and rollers,"[62] while John Lennon said that "if you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."[63] Ted Nugent said "If you don't know every Chuck Berry lick, you can't play rock guitar."[64] Among the honors he has received, have been the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984,[65] the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000,[66] and being named seventh on Time magazine's 2009 list of the 10 best electric guitar players of all-time.[67] On May 14, 2002, Chuck Berry was honored as one of the first BMI Icons at the 50th annual BMI Pop Awards. He was presented the award along with BMI affiliates Bo Diddley and Little Richard.[68]
Berry is included in several Rolling Stone "Greatest of All Time" lists. In September 2003, the magazine named him number 6 in their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".[69] This was followed in November of the same year by his compilation album The Great Twenty-Eight being ranked 21st in the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[70] The following year, in March 2004, Berry was ranked fifth out of "The Immortals – The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time".[6] In December 2004, six of his songs were included in the "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", namely "Johnny B. Goode" (# 7), "Maybellene" (# 18), "Roll Over Beethoven" (# 97), "Rock and Roll Music" (#128), "Sweet Little Sixteen" (# 272) and "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (# 374).[71] In June 2008, his song "Johnny B. Goode" ranked first place in the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time".[72]
A statue 8 feet (2.4 m) tall of Berry, funded by donations, has been erected along the St. Louis Walk of Fame. The dedication ceremony attended by Berry was held on July 29, 2011.[73]
Discography[link]
Main article: Chuck Berry discography
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| Birth name | Thomas Earl Petty |
| Also known as | Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr Muddy Wilbury |
| Born | (1950-10-20) October 20, 1950 (age 61) |
| Origin | Gainesville, Florida, U.S. |
| Genres | Rock and roll, roots rock, heartland rock, Southern rock, blues-rock, psychedelic rock, country |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Guitar, vocals, harmonica, piano, keyboards, percussion, bass, organ, harpsichord, drums |
| Years active | 1973–present |
| Labels | Shelter, Backstreet, MCA, Warner Bros., American, Reprise |
| Associated acts | Epics, Mudcrutch, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Traveling Wilburys, Stevie Nicks, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Grateful Dead, Roy Orbison, Bonnie Raitt, Dwight Twilley |
| Website | tompetty.com |
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Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20, 1950) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury.
He has recorded a number of hit singles with the Heartbreakers and as a solo artist, many of which remain heavily played on adult contemporary and classic rock radio. His music, and notably his hits, have become popular among younger generations as he continues to host sold-out shows.[1] Throughout his career, Petty and his collaborators have sold 60 million albums.[2]
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Childhood and early life[link]
Tom Petty was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, and attended Gainesville High School. His interest in rock and roll music began at age 10 when he met Elvis Presley.[3] In the summer of 1961, his uncle was working on the set of Presley's film Follow That Dream in nearby Ocala, Florida and invited Petty to come down and watch the shoot.[4] He instantly became an Elvis Presley fan and soon traded his Wham-O slingshot for a box of Elvis 45s.[5] In a 2006 interview on the National Public Radio program Fresh Air, Petty said that he knew he wanted to be in a band the moment he saw The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show.[6] One of his first guitar teachers was Don Felder, a fellow Gainesville resident, who would later join the Eagles.[7] As a young man, Petty worked briefly on the grounds crew for the University of Florida, but never attended as a student. An Ogeechee lime tree that he planted while employed at the University is now called the Tom Petty tree.[8][9]
Petty also overcame a difficult relationship with his father, who found it hard to accept that his son was "a mild-mannered kid who was interested in the arts" and subjected him to verbal and physical abuse on a regular basis. Petty was extremely close to his mother, and remains close to his brother Bruce.[10][11][12]
Recording career[link]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1976–1987)[link]
Main article: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Shortly after forming his musical aspirations, Petty started a band known as the Epics, later to evolve into Mudcrutch. Although the band, which featured future Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, were popular in Gainesville, their recordings went unnoticed by a mainstream audience. However, their only single, "Depot Street", remains popular amongst fans. The original Mudcrutch included guitarist Danny Roberts who was later replaced by bass guitarist Charlie Souza.
After Mudcrutch split up, Petty reluctantly agreed to pursue a solo career. Tench decided to form his own group, whose sound Petty appreciated. Eventually, Petty and Campbell collaborated with Tench and fellow members Ron Blair and Stan Lynch, resulting in the first line-up of the Heartbreakers. Their first album, simply titled Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, gained minute popularity amongst American audiences, achieving more success in Britain. The single "Breakdown" was re-released in 1977 and peaked at #40 in early 1978 after the band toured in the United Kingdom in support of Nils Lofgren. The debut album was released by Shelter Records, which at that time was distributed by ABC Records.[13]
Their second album, You're Gonna Get It!, marked the band's first Top 40 album[13] and featured the singles "I Need to Know" and "Listen To Her Heart". Their third album, Damn the Torpedoes, quickly went platinum, selling nearly two million copies; it includes their breakthrough singles "Don't Do Me Like That", "Here Comes My Girl" and "Refugee".[14]
In September 1979, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed at a Musicians United for Safe Energy concert at Madison Square Garden in New York.[15] Their rendition of "Cry To Me" was featured on the resulting No Nukes album.[16]
1981's Hard Promises became a top-ten hit, going platinum and spawning the hit single "The Waiting". The album also featured Petty's first duet, "Insider" with Stevie Nicks.
Bass player Ron Blair quit the group, and was replaced on the fifth album (1982's Long After Dark) by Howie Epstein; the resulting line-up would last until 1994. In 1985, the band participated in Live Aid, playing four songs at Philadelphia's John F. Kennedy Stadium. Southern Accents was also released in 1985. This album included the hit single "Don't Come Around Here No More", which was produced by Dave Stewart. The song's video featured Petty dressed as the Mad Hatter, mocking and chasing Alice from the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, then cutting and eating her as if she were a cake. The ensuing tour led to the live album Pack Up the Plantation: Live! and to an invitation from Bob Dylan; Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers joined him on his True Confessions Tour and also played some dates with the Grateful Dead in 1986 and 1987. Also in 1987, the group released Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) which includes "Jammin' Me" which Petty wrote with Dylan.[17]
Traveling Wilburys, solo career, and "return" to the Heartbreakers (1988–1991)[link]
Main articles: Traveling Wilburys and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
In 1988, Petty became a founding member of the Traveling Wilburys, along with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne. The band's first song, "Handle With Care", was intended as a B-side of one of Harrison's singles, but was judged too good for that purpose and the group decided to record a full album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. A second Wilburys album, mischievously titled Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 and recorded without the recently deceased Orbison, followed in 1990. The album was named Vol. 3 as a response to a series of bootlegged studio sessions being sold as Travelling Wilburys Vol. 2. In recent years, Petty has begun to incorporate Travelling Wilburys songs into his live shows, consistently playing "Handle With Care" in shows from 2003–2006, and for his 2008 tour making "End of the Line" a staple of his setlist.
In 1989, Petty released Full Moon Fever, which featured hits "I Won't Back Down", "Free Fallin'" and "Runnin' Down a Dream". It was nominally his first solo album, although several Heartbreakers and other well-known musicians participated: Mike Campbell co-produced the album with Petty and Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra, and backing musicians included Campbell, Lynne, and fellow Wilburys Roy Orbison and George Harrison (Ringo Starr appears on drums in the video for "I Won't Back Down", but they were actually performed by Phil Jones). Since all the original Traveling Wilburys except Bob Dylan participated on the album, it is sometimes considered the unofficial Traveling Wilbury's "Volume Two".[by whom?]
Petty & the Heartbreakers reformed in 1991 and released Into the Great Wide Open, which was co-produced by Lynne and included the hit singles "Learning To Fly" and "Into The Great Wide Open", the latter featuring Johnny Depp, Gabrielle Anwar, Faye Dunaway, and Matt LeBlanc in the video.
Before leaving MCA Records, Tom and the Heartbreakers got together to record, live in the studio, two new songs for a Greatest Hits package. "Mary Jane's Last Dance" and Thunderclap Newman's "Something in the Air". This was Stan Lynch's last recorded performance with The Heartbreakers. Tom commented "He left right after the session without really saying goodbye." The package went on to sell over ten million copies, therefore receiving diamond certification by the RIAA.
Move to Warner Bros. Records (1991–present)[link]
In 1989, while still under contract to MCA, Petty secretly signed a lucrative deal with Warner Bros. Records, to which the Traveling Wilburys had been signed.[18] His first album on his new label, 1994's Wildflowers (Petty's 2nd of 3 solo albums), included the singles "You Don't Know How It Feels", "You Wreck Me," "It's Good to Be King" and "A Higher Place". The album, produced by Rick Rubin, sold over three million copies in the U.S.
In 1996, Petty, with the Heartbreakers, released a soundtrack to the movie She's the One, starring Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston (see Songs and Music from "She's the One"). The album's singles were "Walls (Circus)" (featuring Lindsey Buckingham), "Climb that Hill" and a song written by Lucinda Williams, "Change the Locks." The album also included a cover of "Asshole," a song by Beck. The same year, the band accompanied Johnny Cash on Unchained, for which Cash would win a Grammy for Best Country Album (Cash would later cover Petty's "I Won't Back Down" on American III: Solitary Man).
In 1999, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers released their last album with Rubin at the helm, Echo. Two songs were released as singles in the U.S., "Room at the Top" and "Free Girl Now". The album reached number 10 in the U.S. album charts.
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers played "I Won't Back Down" at the America: A Tribute to Heroes benefit concert for victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The following year, they played "Taxman", "I Need You", and "Handle With Care" (joined for the last by Jeff Lynne, Dhani Harrison, and Jim Keltner) at the Concert for George in honor of Petty's friend and former bandmate George Harrison.
2002's The Last DJ included several attacks on the music industry, criticizing it for greed, watering down music, and releasing pop music made by scantily-clad young women and reached number 9 on the U.S. charts. Tom has commented though that he didn't like being called "bitter" by the media and that The Last DJ is full of hope, if you look for it.
In 2005, Petty began hosting his own show "Buried Treasure" on XM Radio, on which he shares selections from his personal record collection.
In February 2006, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers agreed to be the headline act at the fifth annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Following that announcement came the itinerary for Tom & the Heartbreakers' "30th Anniversary Tour". Special guests included Stevie Nicks, Pearl Jam, The Allman Brothers, Trey Anastasio, The Derek Trucks Band, and The Black Crowes (who also opened for Petty on their 2005 Summer Tour). Stevie Nicks would join Tom and the Heartbreakers on stage for renditions of "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" and "Insider," and "I Need to Know" where Nicks took the lead vocal spot. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam also joined Tom and the Heartbreakers on stage at some shows where Vedder sang the lead on "The Waiting" (which is available on the Runnin' Down a Dream package: bonus features) and a verse in the concert-closer "American Girl".
In July 2006, Petty released a new solo album titled Highway Companion, which included the hit "Saving Grace". It debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200, becoming Petty's highest chart position since the introduction of the Nielsen SoundScan system for tracking album sales in 1991. Highway Companion was briefly promoted on the "30th Anniversary Tour" with the Heartbreakers in 2006 with performances of "Saving Grace", "Square One", "Down South," and "Flirting with Time".
In 2006, the American Broadcasting Company hired Petty to do the music for its National Basketball Association playoffs coverage.
During the summer of 2007, Petty reunited with his old bandmates Tom Leadon and Randall Marsh along with Heartbreakers Benmont Tench & Mike Campbell to reform his pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch. The band originally formed in 1967 in Gainesville, Florida before relocating to California where they released one single in 1974 before breaking up. The quintet recorded this self titled new album of fourteen songs that was released on April 29, 2008 (on iTunes, an additional song "Special Place" was available if the album was pre-ordered). The band supported the album with a brief tour of California in the spring of 2008.
In 2007, artists as diverse as Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Norah Jones, Lenny Kravitz and Paul McCartney paid tribute to Fats Domino on the double-CD covers set Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino. The album's sales helped buy instruments for students in New Orleans public schools and they contributed to the building of a community center in the city’s Hurricane Katrina-damaged Ninth Ward. Tom and the Heartbreakers’ contributed a critically acclaimed cover of “I'm Walkin'" to the package.[19]
In January 2008, it was announced that the band would be embarking on a North American Tour which was set to start on May 30 following the appearance at Super Bowl XLII.[20] Steve Winwood served as the opening act, who joined Petty and the Heartbreakers on stage at select shows, starting on June 6, 2008 in Philadelphia, PA. Winwood's Spencer Davis Group hit "Gimme Some Loving" was performed and occasionally his Blind Faith hit "Can't Find My Way Home" was performed before it.
On February 3, 2008, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers performed during the halftime-show of Super Bowl XLII at the University of Phoenix Stadium. They played "American Girl", "I Won't Back Down", "Free Fallin'", and "Runnin' Down a Dream", in that order. 'I Won't Back Down' was used in the closing credits of the coverage on BBC Two.
The Live Anthology is the most-recently announced project of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.[dated info] Its announcement comes nearly a year after Petty's last record, Extended Play Live, by Mudcrutch.
In November 2009, Petty told Rolling Stone that he is working on a new album with the Heartbreakers, saying "It's blues-based. Some of the tunes are longer, more jam-y kind of music. A couple of tracks really sound like the Allman Brothers — not the songs but the atmosphere of the band." In February 2010, Petty announced a new Heartbreakers Album, Mojo to be released on June 15, 2010.[dated info] This was followed by a North American Summer Tour beginning on June 1, 2010.[dated info] The band also appeared as musical guests on the season finale of Saturday Night Live on May 15, 2010.
Petty has been managed by Tony Dimitriades since 1976.[5]
Acting[link]
Petty's first appearance in film took place in 1978, when he had a cameo in FM. He later had a small part in 1987's Made in Heaven, and appeared in several episodes of It's Garry Shandling's Show between 1987 and 1990, playing himself as one of Garry Shandling's neighbors. Petty was also featured in Shandling's other show, The Larry Sanders Show, as one of the Story within a story final guests. In the episode, Petty gets bumped from the show and nearly comes to blows with Greg Kinnear.
Petty appeared in the 1997 movie The Postman, directed by and starring Kevin Costner, as The Bridge City Mayor (from the dialogue it is implied that he is playing a future version of himself).
In 2002, he appeared on The Simpsons in the episode "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation". In it, he spoofed himself as a "tutor" to Homer Simpson on the art of lyric writing, composing a brief song about a drunk girl driving down the road while concerned with the state of public schools. Later in the episode, he loses a toe during a riot.
Petty had a recurring role as the voice of Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt in the animated comedy series King of the Hill.
In 2008, Petty made a guest appearance as himself in the Comedy Central show Lil Bush's season 2 finale. He is asked to write a song for Bush and his cronies. At the end, he is shown riding off into the sunset in a flying car alongside Iggy Pop, who is a regular voice actor on the people.
In 2010, Petty made a 5-second cameo appearance with comedian Andy Samberg in a musical video titled "Great Day" featured on the bonus DVD as part of Lonely Island's new album "Turtleneck & Chain". In this video, Samberg plays an enthusiastic, upbeat cocaine addict who believes that Alec Baldwin (who also co-stars) and Tom Petty are his very best friends--only to be quickly rejected by both. After finding out the hard way they are quite the opposite and feeling heartbroken, the addict then briefly sings about losing them.
Awards and accolades[link]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Tom Petty
In 1994, You Got Lucky, a Tom Petty tribute album featuring such bands as Everclear and Silkworm was released.
In April 1996, Petty received the UCLA's George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement. The next month, Petty won the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers' Golden Note Award.
In 1999 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their contribution to the recording industry.
In 2002, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On December 6, 2005, Petty received the Billboard Century Award for his lifetime achievements. The same year, Conversations with Tom Petty, an oral history/biography composed of interviews conducted in 2004 and 2005 with Petty by music journalist Paul Zollo was published (ISBN 1-84449-815-8).
On September 21, 2006, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers received the keys to the city of Gainesville, Florida, where he and his bandmates either lived or grew up.[21] From July 2006 until 2007 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio featured an exhibit of Tom Petty items. Much of the content was donated by Petty himself during a visit to his home by some of the Hall's curatorial staff.
Peter Bogdanovich's documentary film on Petty's career entitled Runnin' Down A Dream (film) premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 14, 2007.
Views on artistic control[link]
Petty is known as a staunch guardian of his artistic control and artistic freedom. In 1979, he was dragged into a legal dispute when ABC Records was sold to MCA Records. He refused to be transferred to another record label without his consent. In May 1979, he filed for bankruptcy and was signed to the new MCA subsidiary Backstreet Records.
In early 1981, the upcoming Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album, which would become Hard Promises, was slated to be the next MCA release with the new list price of $9.98, following Steely Dan's Gaucho (album) and the Olivia Newton-John/Electric Light Orchestra Xanadu soundtrack. This so-called "superstar pricing" was $1.00 more than the usual list price of $8.98.[22] Petty voiced his objections to the price hike in the press and the issue became a popular cause among music fans. Non-delivery of the album and naming it Eight Ninety-Eight were considered, but eventually MCA decided against the price increase.[23] In 1987, Petty sued tire company B.F. Goodrich for $1 million for using a song very similar to his song "Mary's New Car" in a TV commercial. The ad agency that produced the commercial had previously sought permission to use Petty's song but was refused. A judge issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting further use of the ad and the suit was later settled out of court.[24]
Some have claimed that the Red Hot Chili Peppers single "Dani California", released in May 2006, is very similar to Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance".[25] Petty told Rolling Stone, "I seriously doubt that there is any negative intent there. And a lot of rock 'n' roll songs sound alike. Ask Chuck Berry. The Strokes took 'American Girl' for their song '[[Last Nite]]', and I saw an interview with them where they actually admitted it. That made me laugh out loud. I was like, 'OK, good for you' ... If someone took my song note for note and stole it maliciously, then maybe [I'd sue]. But I don't believe in lawsuits much. I think there are enough frivolous lawsuits in this country without people fighting over pop songs."[26]
Personal life[link]
His first marriage, to Jane Benyo, lasted 22 years from March 26, 1974 to September 9, 1996. He spent most of those years working, on the road or in the studio. Petty and Benyo have two daughters; Adria is a film director and AnnaKim Violette is an artist. Since June 3, 2001 he is married to Dana York, whom he first met years earlier when she visited one of his concerts. Petty has a stepson from York's first marriage named Dylan.[27]
On May 17, 1987, an arsonist set fire to Petty's house in Encino, California. Firefighters were able to salvage the basement recording studio and the original tapes stored there, as well as his Gibson Dove acoustic guitar. His signature gray top hat, however, was destroyed. Petty later rebuilt the house with fireproof materials.[28][29]
Musical equipment[link]
Petty owns and has used a number of guitars over the years. From 1976-1982, his main instrument was a sunburst 1964 Fender Stratocaster. He has also used a number of Rickenbacker guitars from 1979 onward, notably a 1965 Rose Morris 1993 and 1987 reissue of the Rose Morris 1997, a 1967 360/12 and 1989 660/12TP. The Rickenbacker 660/12TP was designed by Petty (specifically the neck) and featured his signature from 1991 to 1997.[30] Other electrics currently used on tour include a Gretsch Tennessean, two 1960s Fender Telecasters and a Gibson Firebird.
For acoustic guitars, Petty has had a signature C.F. Martin HD-40, and has written virtually all of his songs on a Gibson Dove acoustic saved from his 1987 house fire. He currently uses a Gibson J-200 in a natural finish and a late '70s Guild D25 12-string acoustic.
Petty's current amplifer setup features 2 Fender Vibro-King 60 watt combos.[31]
Heartbreakers lineup[link]
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Discography[link]
Main article: Tom Petty discography
See also[link]
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart
- List of best-selling music artists
References[link]
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- ^ Sager, Mike (2006-06-30). "What I've Learned: Tom Petty". Esquire. http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/ESQ0806WIL_134. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
- ^ "Tom Petty's life changed when he met Elvis". The Gainesville Sun. 2007-08-16. http://tompetty.warnerreprise.com/lastdj_newsdetail.php?section=announcements&id=8965. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
- ^ a b Newman, Melinda (2005-11-28). "Tom Petty: A Portrait Of The Artist". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2007-11-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20071103133707/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/feature/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001571263. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
- ^ "Tom Petty Knows 'How It Feels'". National Public Radio. 2006-07-27. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18580517. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
- ^ Felder, Don (2008). Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-28906-8. p. 28
- ^ Bernie Machen (2006-09-06). "September 13, 2006 Speech to Campus Community Council". University of Florida Office of the President. http://www.president.ufl.edu/speeches/2006/09/campusCommunityCouncil.html. Retrieved 2008-09-10.
- ^ "Tom Petty Gets Key to Gainesville, Fla". Fox News. 2006-11-22. Archived from the original on 2008-04-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20080406202958/http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Sep22/0,4670,PeopleTomPetty,00.html. Retrieved 2008-04-15.
- ^ DeYoung, Bill. "Full Steam Ahead" Goldmine July 13, 1990
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| Birth name | Charles Hardin Holley |
| Born | (1936-09-07)September 7, 1936 Lubbock, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | February 3, 1959(1959-02-03) (aged 22) Grant Township, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, U.S. |
| Genres | Rock and roll, rockabilly |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano, violin |
| Years active | 1955–1959 |
| Labels | Decca, Brunswick, Coral |
| Associated acts | The Crickets, The Picks |
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Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll."[1] His works and innovations inspired and influenced contemporary and later musicians, notably The Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones, Don McLean, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton, and exerted a profound influence on popular music.[2] Holly was among the first group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.[3] In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Holly #13 among "The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time".[4]
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Biography[link]
Early life[link]
Charles Hardin Holley was born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, to Lawrence Odell and Ella Pauline (Drake) Holley. In Philip Norman's biography it is stated that his mother's family claimed to be descended from the English navigator Francis Drake.
Holly was always called "Buddy" by his family because he was so nice to everyone. Buddy was the youngest of three siblings, and brothers Larry and Travis taught him to play a variety of instruments, including the guitar, four-string banjo and lap steel guitar. At the age of five, his young voice and exuberance won him a talent contest singing a then-popular song, "Have You Ever Gone Sailing (Down the River of Memories)."[5] In 1949, still retaining his soprano, he recorded a bluesy solo rendering of Hank Snow's "My Two Timin' Woman" on a wire recorder borrowed by a friend who worked in a music shop.[6]
In 1952, he met Bob Montgomery at Hutchinson Junior High School. They shared an interest in music, and teamed up as "Buddy and Bob". Initially influenced by bluegrass, they sang harmony duets at local clubs and high school talent shows. The duo performed on a local radio station KDAV Sunday broadcast that made them a top local act. Hutchinson Junior High School now has a mural honoring Holly, and Lubbock High School, where he sang in the school choir, also honors the late musician.[7]
The Crickets[link]
Main article: The Crickets
Holly saw Elvis Presley sing in Lubbock in 1955, and began to incorporate a rockabilly style, similar to the Sun Records sound, which had a strong rhythm acoustic and slap bass.[5] On October 15, 1955, Holly, along with Bob Montgomery and Larry Welborn, opened the bill for Presley[6] in Lubbock, catching the eye of a Nashville talent scout.[8] Holly's transition to rock continued when he opened for Bill Haley & His Comets at a local show organized by Eddie Crandall, the manager for Marty Robbins.[6]
Following this performance, Decca Records signed him to a contract in February 1956, misspelling his name as "Holly".[6] He thereafter adopted the misspelled name for his professional career. Holly formed his own band, later to be called The Crickets, consisting of Holly (lead guitar and vocals), Niki Sullivan (guitar), Joe B. Mauldin (bass), and Jerry Allison (drums). They went to Nashville for three recording sessions with producer Owen Bradley.[9] However, Holly chafed under a restrictive atmosphere that allowed him little input.[9] Among the tracks he recorded was an early version of "That'll Be The Day", which took its title from a line that John Wayne's character says repeatedly in the 1956 film The Searchers.[10] (This initial version of the song played more slowly and about half an octave higher than the later hit version.) Decca released two singles, "Blue Days, Black Nights" and "Modern Don Juan", that failed to make an impression. On January 22, 1957, Decca informed Holly his contract would not be renewed,[6] insisting, however, that he could not record the same songs for anyone else for five years.[11]
Holly then hired Norman Petty as manager, and the band began recording at Petty's studios in Clovis, New Mexico. Petty contacted music publishers and labels, and Brunswick Records, a subsidiary of Decca, signed the Crickets on March 19, 1957.[12] Holly signed as a solo artist with another Decca subsidiary, Coral Records. This put him in the unusual position of having two recording contracts at the same time.[13]
On May 27, 1957, "That'll Be The Day" was released as a single, credited to the Crickets to try to bypass Decca's claimed legal rights. When the song became a hit, Decca decided not to press its claim. "That'll Be the Day" topped the Billboard US "Best Sellers in Stores" chart on September 23, and was on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in November. The Crickets performed "That'll Be the Day" and "Peggy Sue" on The Ed Sullivan Show on December 1.[6] They also sang "Peggy Sue" on The Arthur Murray Party on December 29 and were given a polite introduction by Kathryn Murray.[14] The kinescopes of these programs are the only record of their 1957 television appearances.
Holly helped win over an all-black audience to rock and roll/rockabilly when the Crickets were booked at New York's Apollo Theater for August 16–22, 1957.[6] Unlike the immediate acceptance shown in the 1978 movie The Buddy Holly Story, it actually took several performances for the audience to warm up to him. In August 1957, the Crickets were the only white performers on a national tour including black neighborhood theaters.[8]
As Holly was signed both as a solo artist and a member of the Crickets, two debut albums were released: The "Chirping" Crickets on November 27, 1957 and Buddy Holly on February 20, 1958.[15] His singles "Peggy Sue" and "Oh Boy!", with backing vocals later dubbed on by The Picks,[16] reached the top ten of United States and United Kingdom charts. Buddy Holly and the Crickets toured Australia in January 1958 and the UK in March.[17] Their third and final album, That'll Be the Day, was put together from early recordings and was released in April.
In the liner notes to Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, Billy Altman notes that "Peggy Sue" was originally written as "Cindy Lou" (after Holly's niece), but Holly changed it prior to recording as a tip of the hat to Crickets drummer Jerry Allison's girlfriend, Peggy Sue Gerron. Allison wanted the song to be named after Gerron to make up for a recent fight. The two later married.
Holly wrote "True Love Ways" about his relationship with his wife, Maria Elena. It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham "Boomie" Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.[18]
Holly in New York[link]
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Buddy Holly on The Ed Sullivan Show with Ed Sullivan, January 26, 1958, New York.
In June 1958, he met Maria Elena Santiago, a receptionist for Murray Deutch, an executive for New York publisher Peer-Southern Music.[18] Holly managed to have Santiago invited to a luncheon at Howard Johnson's, thanks to Deutch's secretary, Jo Harper. He asked her to have dinner with him that night at P. J. Clarke's. Holly proposed marriage to her on their very first date. "While we were having dinner, he got up and came back with his hands behind his back. He brought out a red rose and said, 'This is for you. Would you marry me?' Within the beautiful red rose, there was a ring. I melted." Holly went to her guardian's house the next morning and Maria came running at him and jumped into his arms, which was a sign to him that it was a "yes".
They married in Lubbock on August 15, 1958, less than two months later.[18] "I'd never had a boyfriend in my life. I'd never been on a date before. But when I saw Buddy, it was like magic. We had something special: love at first sight. It was like we were made for each other. He came into my life when I needed him, and I came into his." she told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal on what would have been their 50th wedding anniversary.[19] The newlyweds honeymooned in Acapulco.[18] Maria Elena traveled on tours, doing everything from the laundry to equipment setup to ensuring the group got paid. However, many fans became aware of his marriage only after his death.[18]
The ambitious Holly became increasingly interested in the New York music/recording/publishing scene, while his band mates wanted to go back home to Lubbock.[citation needed] As a result, the group split up in late 1958. The Hollys settled in Apartment 4H of the Brevoort Apartments located at 11 Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village. Here he recorded the series of acoustic songs, including "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" and "What to Do," known as the "Apartment Tapes," which were released after his death.[20]
The Hollys frequented many of New York's music venues, including The Village Gate, Blue Note, Village Vanguard, and Johnny Johnson's.[citation needed] Maria Elena reported Buddy was keen to learn finger-style flamenco guitar, and would often visit her aunt's home to play the piano there.[citation needed] He wanted to develop collaborations between soul singers and rock 'n' roll, hoping to make an album with Ray Charles and gospel legend Mahalia Jackson. He also had ambitions to work in film, like Elvis Presley and Eddie Cochran, and registered for acting classes with Lee Strasburg's Actors' Studio, where the likes of Marlon Brando and James Dean had trained.[18]
According to Billy Altman's liner notes to the Geffen/Universal compilation, Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, in addition to "True Love Ways", during the October 1958 sessions at Decca's Pythian Temple, Holly also recorded two other songs, "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" and "Raining In My Heart." The songs were firsts for Holly, not only in the use of orchestral backing players, but also the tracks were his first stereo recordings. They were also to be his last formal recording studio sessions.
Although Holly had already begun to become disillusioned with Norman Petty before meeting Maria Elena, it was through her and her aunt Provi, the head of Latin American music at Peer-Southern, that he began to fully realize what was going on with his manager, who was paying the band's royalties into his own company's account.[18] Holly was having trouble getting his royalties from Petty, so he hired the noted lawyer Harold Orenstein at the recommendation of his friends the Everly Brothers, who had engaged Orenstein following disputes with their own manager, Wesley Rose. Yet, with the money still being withheld by Petty and with rent due, Buddy was forced to go back on the road.[18]
Death[link]
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Holly's headstone in the City of Lubbock Cemetery
Main article: The Day the Music Died
Holly was offered a spot in the Winter Dance Party, a three-week tour across the Midwest opening on January 23, 1959, by the GAC agency,[citation needed] with other notable performers such as Dion and the Belmonts, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson. He assembled a backing band consisting of Tommy Allsup (guitar), Waylon Jennings (bass) and Carl Bunch (drums), and billed as The Crickets.[citation needed]
Following a performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 2, 1959, Holly chartered a small airplane to take him to the next stop on the tour. Holly, Valens, Richardson and the pilot were killed en route to Moorhead, Minnesota, when their plane crashed soon after taking off from nearby Mason City in the early morning hours of February 3.[21] Bandmate Waylon Jennings had given up his seat on the plane, causing Holly to jokingly tell Jennings, "I hope your ol' bus freezes up!" Jennings shot back facetiously, "Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes!" It was a statement that would haunt Jennings for decades.[22]
Holly's funeral was held on February 7, 1959, at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock.[23] The service was officiated by Ben D. Johnson, who had presided at the Hollys' wedding just months earlier. The pallbearers were Jerry Allison, Joe B. Mauldin, Niki Sullivan, Bob Montgomery, Sonny Curtis and Phil Everly.[24] Waylon Jennings was unable to attend due to his commitment to the still-touring Winter Dance Party. Holly's body was interred in the City of Lubbock Cemetery in the eastern part of the city. His headstone carries the correct spelling of his surname (Holley) and a carving of his Fender Stratocaster guitar.
Holly's pregnant wife, a widow after barely six months of marriage, miscarried soon after, ending that part of the Holly family tree. The miscarriage was reportedly due to “psychological trauma”.[25] Because of this incident, authorities found it necessary, in the months following, to implement a policy against announcing victims’ names until after families had first been informed.[25] María Elena Holly did not attend the funeral, and has never visited the gravesite. She later told the Avalanche-Journal:
In a way, I blame myself. I was not feeling well when he left. I was two weeks pregnant, and I wanted Buddy to stay with me, but he had scheduled that tour. It was the only time I wasn't with him. And I blame myself because I know that, if only I had gone along, Buddy never would have gotten into that airplane.[19]
The first song to commemorate the musicians was “Three Stars” by Eddie Cochran. This song was recorded just one day after the disaster occurred.[25] Twelve years later, in 1971, Don McLean released his single, "American Pie”, to commemorate Buddy Holly’s death and further accentuate the loss of the United States’ innocence.[25] Don McLean’s song began the reference to the tragedy as "The Day the Music Died".
Influence[link]
Holly set the template for the standard rock and roll band: two guitars, bass, and drums, He was one of the first in the genre to write, produce, and perform his own songs.
Holly managed to bridge the racial divide that marked music in America. Along with Elvis and others, Holly made rock and roll, with its roots in rockabilly country music and blues-inspired rhythm and blues music, more popular among a broad white audience.[citation needed] From listening to their recordings, one had difficulty determining if the Crickets, the name of Buddy's band, were white or black singers. Holly indeed sometimes played with black musicians Little Richard and Chuck Berry. The Crickets were only the second white rock group to tour Great Britain. Holly's essential eyeglasses encouraged other musicians, such as John Lennon, also to wear their glasses during performances.[citation needed]
In his biography of rock legend Elton John, Philip Norman recounted that by his early teens, John (then known as Reg Dwight) was wearing glasses "not because he needed them, but in homage to Buddy Holly." After wearing glasses for a while, his eyes became adjusted to the lenses, and at that point he became nearsighted and really did need glasses, which would years later establish John as one of the most famous "four-eyes" in rock and roll, though Holly is widely considered to be the first.[citation needed]
Contrary to popular belief, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not attend a Holly concert, although they watched his television appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium;[citation needed] Tony Bramwell, a school friend of McCartney and George Harrison, did. Bramwell met Holly, and freely shared his records with all three.[citation needed] Ian Whitcomb said "Buddy Holly and the Crickets had the most influence on the Beatles."[26] Lennon and McCartney later cited Holly as a primary influence.[27] (Their bug-themed band's name, The Beatles, was chosen partly in homage to Holly's Crickets.)[26] The Beatles did a cover version of "Words of Love" that was a close reproduction of Holly's version, released on late 1964's Beatles for Sale (in the U.S., in June 1965 on Beatles VI). During the January 1969 sessions for the Let It Be album, the Beatles played a slow impromptu version of "Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues" — although not written by Holly, it was popularized by him — with Lennon mimicking Holly's vocal style;[citation needed] the recording was eventually released in the mid-1990s on Anthology 3. In addition, John Lennon recorded a cover version of "Peggy Sue" on his 1975 album Rock 'n' Roll. McCartney owns the publishing rights to Holly's song catalogue.[28]
A 17-year-old Bob Dylan attended the January 31, 1959, show, two nights before Holly's death. Dylan referred to this in his 1998 Grammy acceptance speech for his Time out of Mind being named Album of the Year:
"And I just want to say that when I was sixteen or seventeen years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play at Duluth National Guard Armory and I was three feet away from him...and he LOOKED at me. And I just have some sort of feeling that he was — I don't know how or why — but I know he was with us all the time we were making this record in some kind of way."[29]
Keith Richards attended one of Holly's performances, where he heard "Not Fade Away" for the first time.[citation needed] The Rolling Stones had an early hit covering the song.
The launch of Bobby Vee's successful musical career resulted from Holly's death, when he was selected to replace Holly on the tour that continued after the plane crash. Holly's profound influence on Vee's singing style can be heard in such songs as "Rubber Ball" and "Run to Him."
Holly influenced many other singers during and after a career that lasted barely two years. Keith Richards once said Holly had "an influence on everybody."[30] In an August 24, 1978, Rolling Stone interview, Bruce Springsteen told Dave Marsh, "I play Buddy Holly every night before I go on; that keeps me honest."
The Grateful Dead performed "Not Fade Away" 530 times over the course of their career, making it their seventh most-performed song.[citation needed] The song also appears on eight of their official live recording releases.
Various rock and roll histories have asserted the singing group The Hollies were named in homage to Buddy Holly.[citation needed] According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly (and years later produced an album covering some of his songs), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.[31]
Don McLean's popular 1971 ballad "American Pie" is inspired by Holly and the day of the plane crash.[32] The American Pie album is dedicated to Holly.
On September 7, 1994 (Holly's 58th birthday), Weezer released their single, "Buddy Holly".
Discography[link]
Main article: Buddy Holly discography
Buddy Holly released only three albums in his lifetime. Nonetheless, he recorded so prolifically that Coral Records was able to release brand-new albums and singles for 10 years after his death, although the technical quality was very mixed, some being studio quality and others home recordings.
Buddy Holly continued to be promoted and sold as an "active" artist, and his records had a loyal following, especially in Europe. The demand for unissued Holly material was so great that Norman Petty resorted to overdubbing whatever he could find: alternate takes of studio recordings, originally rejected masters, "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" and the other five 1959 tracks (adding new surf-guitar arrangements), and even Holly's amateur demos from 1954 (where the low-fidelity vocals are often muffled behind the new orchestrations). The last new Buddy Holly album was Giant (featuring the single "Love Is Strange"), issued in 1969. Between the 1959–60 Jack Hansen overdubs, the 1960s Norman Petty overdubs, various alternate takes, and Holly's undubbed originals, collectors can often choose from multiple versions of the same song. There are also many different versions of Holly's "Greatest Hits" as well as covers/compilation albums of Buddy's songs performed by various artists. One such album has been announced recently at an event at P.J. Clarke's in New York.[33] Listen to Me: Buddy Holly is being produced by Peter Asher and includes contributions from Stevie Nicks, The Fray, Cobra Starship, Jeff Lynne, Train's Pat Monahan, Patrick Stump, Jackson Browne, Chris Isaak, Natalie Merchant, Imelda May, Ringo Starr, Lyle Lovett, Zooey Deschanel, Brian Wilson and more.[34]
Film and musical depictions[link]
Holly's life story inspired a Hollywood biographical film, The Buddy Holly Story. Star Gary Busey received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Holly. The movie was widely criticized by the rock community and Holly's friends and family for its inaccuracies. This led Paul McCartney to produce and host his own documentary about Holly in 1985, titled The Real Buddy Holly Story. This video includes interviews with Keith Richards, Phil and Don Everly, Sonny Curtis, Jerry Allison, Holly's family, and McCartney himself, among others.
In 1987, Marshall Crenshaw portrayed Buddy Holly in the movie La Bamba. He is featured performing at the Surf Ballroom and boarding the doomed airplane with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. Crenshaw's version of "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" is featured on the La Bamba original motion picture soundtrack.
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, the Jukebox Musical depicting his life, is credited as being the first of its kind, spawning a breed of jukebox shows, including the likes of Mamma Mia! and We Will Rock You. Buddy – as it is abbreviated on occasion – is still running in the UK after 22 years, with a UK tour that went out in February 2011.
Holly was depicted in the Quantum Leap episode entitled "How the Tess Was Won" although his identity isn't revealed until the very end of the episode. According to this episode, Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) influences Buddy Holly to change the lyrics from "piggy, suey" to "Peggy Sue", thus setting up Holly's future hit song.
There are also a number of acts both in the US (Johnny Rogers, John Mueller) and UK (Marc Robinson, Spencer J etc.) who specialize in bringing Holly's songs to life.
In 2010, Guy Kent portrayed a modern-day interpretation of Holly in the independent film The Day the Music Died.[35][36] The film has yet to be theatrically released.
Lubbock[link]
Holly was based in Lubbock as his career took off between 1956 and 1958. In 1980, Grant Speed sculpted a statue of Holly playing his Fender guitar. This statue is the centerpiece of Lubbock's Walk of Fame, which honors notable people who contributed to Lubbock's musical history. Other memorials to Buddy Holly include a street named in his honor and The Buddy Holly Center, which contains a museum of Holly memorabilia as well as a Fine Arts Gallery. The Center is located on Crickets Ave, one street over from Buddy Holly Ave, in what used to be the Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway Depot.[37]
In 2010, Grant Speed's statue was taken down for refurbishment, and construction began on a new Walk of Fame. On May 9, 2011, the City of Lubbock held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for The Buddy and Maria Elena Holly Plaza, the new home of the statue and the Walk of Fame.[38] The plaza is across the street from the museum.
Due to copyright restrictions, personal and professional photography of memorabilia is not allowed inside of the Holly exhibit. Visitors are, however, welcome to take pictures of objects outside the museum. These include the giant recreation of Buddy's glasses at the entrance and the Grant Speed statue across the street. His actual eyeglass frames recovered from the crash site are on display inside the museum.
Hollywood Walk of Fame[link]
On September 7, 2011 (what would have been Holly's 75th birthday), he received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame posthumously. His widow, Maria Elena Santiago, attended, as did Phil Everly, Peter Asher, Priscilla Presley and actor Gary Busey, who played Holly in The Buddy Holly Story.[39]
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Further reading[link]
- Amburn, Ellis (1996). Buddy Holly: A Biography. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-14557-6.
- Bustard, Anne (2005). Buddy: The Story of Buddy Holly. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4223-9302-4.
- Dawson, Jim; Leigh, Spencer (1996). Memories of Buddy Holly. Big Nickel Publications. ISBN 978-0-936433-20-2.
- Gerron, Peggy Sue (2008). Whatever Happened to Peggy Sue?. Togi Entertainment. ISBN 978-0-9800085-0-0.
- Goldrosen, John; Beecher, John (1996). Remembering Buddy: The Definitive Biography. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80715-7.
- Goldrosen, John (1975). Buddy Holly: His Life and Music. Popular Press. ISBN 0-85947-018-0
- Gribbin, John (2009). Not Fade Away: The Life and Music of Buddy Holly. London: Icon Books. ISBN 978-1-84831-034-6
- Dave Laing, Professor. Buddy Holly (Icons of Pop Music). Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-22168-4.
- Lehmer, Larry (1997). The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens. Schirmer Trade Books. ISBN 0-02-864741-6 or 978-0028647418.
- Mann, Alan (1996). The A-Z of Buddy Holly. Aurum Press (2nd edition). ISBN 1-85410-433-0 or 978-1854104335.
- McFadden, Hugh (2005). Elegy for Charles Hardin Holley, in Elegies & Epiphanies. Belfast: Lagan Press.
- Norman, Philip (1996). "Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly" or "Buddy: The Biography of Buddy Holly" (1997), ISBN 0-684-83560-6 or ISBN 0-330-35223-7.
- Peer, Elizabeth and Ralph II (1972). Buddy Holly: A Biography in Words, Photographs and Music Australia: Peer International. ASIN B000W24DZO.
- Peters, Richard (1990). The Legend That Is Buddy Holly. Barnes & Noble Books. ISBN 0-285-63005-9 or 978-0285630055.
- Rabin, Stanton (2009). OH BOY! The Life and Music of Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer Buddy Holly. Van Winkle Publishing (Kindle). ASIN B0010QBLLG.
- Tobler, John (1979). The Buddy Holly Story. Beaufort Books.
- VH1's Behind the Music "The Day the Music Died" interview with Waylon Jennings
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- Buddy Holly at the Internet Movie Database
- Buddy Holly discography at MusicBrainz
- Listen to Me: Buddy Holly - Songmasters
- peermusic presents Maria Elena: My Life with Buddy
- Buddy Holly - sessions and cover songs
- Telegraph article on the last songs written by Buddy Holly
- 'The Day the Music Died' at The Death of Rock: The Archive
- Buddy Holly is Alive and Well On Ganymede
- The Texas Experience - John Connally Presents Buddy Holly, from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image
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| Name | Holly, Buddy |
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| Date of birth | September 7, 1936 |
| Place of birth | Lubbock, Texas, U.S. |
| Date of death | February 3, 1959 |
| Place of death | Grant Township, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, U.S. |
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