Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the orange and blue nation celebrates the Fourth of July and the nation's semiquincentennial, Bo Diddley Plaza is set to ...

Bo Diddley was one of the pioneers of classic rock. Notably, he didn’t think The Beatles were really rock ‘n’ roll artists like the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis Presley. In addition, he revealed ...

Blues legend Bo Diddley died yesterday at the age of 79, but his musical legacy lives on. Farai Chideya talks with Rob Fields, a music marketing executive and black rock blogger, about the musicians ...

The blues icon died Monday at 79, but his signature sound marches on. The "Bo Diddley beat" powers acts from the Rolling Stones to the White Stripes. Musicologist Ned Sublette celebrates Diddley's ...

Four days after suffering a stroke, Bo Diddley walked around the intensive-care unit at Creighton University Medical Center, and doctors were encouraged that the singer-songwriter-guitarist would be ...

Bo Diddley's funeral rocked and rolled Saturday with as much energy as his music. For four hours, friends and relatives sang, danced and celebrated the life of the man who helped give birth to rock ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ellas McDaniel became Bo Diddley when he was a teenager. He had been raised in Mississippi by his aunt, Gussie ...

Bo Diddley Plaza will host a Fourth of July celebration that also serves as the official launch of Mike Klein’s congressional ...

Many of the biggest names in rock music — the Rolling Stones and The Who among them — recorded Diddley’s songs or wrote songs inspired by his example; his performance on stage also influenced a ...