The Bo Diddley Foundation recently announced plans for a celebration of the late blues great's music and legacy. Bo Diddley Explosion! will take place April 16 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Alachua Woman's ...

Mississippi is on track to honor a blues and rock legend who sang about being a "road running man." A state House passed a bill Thursday designating a stretch of Interstate 55 as the Bo Diddley ...

To assign a number to Bo Diddley would be impossible. The guitar great’s influence on rock and roll, blues, and R&B is immeasurable and can still be pinpointed in some of today’s biggest hits. His ...

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A lot of the musicians in this series were only filmed late in their lives because in their younger days, during the 1930s or earlier, nobody in Hollywood was paying much attention to what was going ...

Word is spreading across news outlets that Bo Diddley died today at home in Archer, Fla. He was 79. I'm sure glad that Bernie Clarke and David Katleski brought Diddley to Syracuse to headline the New ...

On Capitol Hill, Bo Diddley hovered over an 1898 Edison recorder, playing his trademark rectangular guitar and singing into a large zinc horn as a vibrating needle scratched bands onto a slowly ...

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The city of Detroit fascinated David Bowie and inspired one of the defining songs of his glam rock period, “The Jean Genie.” While touring in the United States, Bowie became struck by the stark ...

The lineup of performers for the Free Friday Concert Series at Bo Diddley Plaza ranges from music more familiar to Boomers all the way to today's hip hop, and a bit of sacred steel from the ...

Editor's note: National recording artists and Gainesville rock band Sister Hazel will no longer be performing at the event. The Bo Diddley Foundation recently announced plans for a celebration of the ...