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Bo Diddley, Who Gave Rock His Beat, Dies at 79

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

June 3, 2008 Bo Diddley, Who Gave Rock His Beat, Dies at 79 By BEN RATLIFF NY Times Bo Diddley, a singer and guitarist who invented his own name, his own guitars, his own beat and, with a handful of other musical pioneers, rock ?n? roll itself, died Monday at his home in Archer, Fla. He was 79. The cause was heart failure, a spokeswoman, Susan Clary, said. Mr. Diddley had a heart attack last August, only months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. In the 1950s, as a founder of rock ?n? roll, Mr. Diddley ? along with Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and a few others ? helped to reshape the sound of popular music worldwide, building on the templates of blues, Southern gospel, R&B and postwar black American vernacular culture...continue to full post

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