Who is Bo Diddley dating?
Ever heard “I Want Candy” or “Not Fade Away” or “Willie & The Hand Jive”, Shirley & Company`s “Shame, Shame, Shame” or U2`s “Desire” or George Michael`s “Faith”? If you have, then you`ve heard the “Bo Diddley beat”, the most famous beat in the world! One of the founding fathers of rock `n` roll, Bo Diddley`s innovative pounding and hypnotic, Latin-tinged beat, his vast array of electric custom-built guitars, his use of reverb, tremelo and distortion to make his guitars talk, mumble and roar, his use of female musicians, his wild stage shows, and his on-record and on-stage rapping, pre-date all others. Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates on Sunday December 30, 1928, on a small farm near the town of McComb, Mississippi, in rural Pike County, close to the Louisiana border, the only child of Ethel Wilson and Eugene Bates, he had three half-brothers and a half-sister. He was adopted by his mother`s cousin, Mrs. Gussie McDaniel, along with his cousins Willis, Lucille and Freddie, and adopted the