Fade Away

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Bo Knows Congestive Heart Failure

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Bo Deadley
Bo Diddley, a member of the Louisiana Gator Boys whose best moves and material made a lot of other people rich, has died at the age of 79 of heart failure. The music pioneer helped invent rock and or roll, employing a reliance on his R&B background and his signature beat — three strokes/rest/two strokes, which was ripped off on Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away,” Johnny Otis’s “Willie and the Hand Jive,” the Who’s “Magic Bus,” Bruce Springsteen’s “She’s the One” and U2’s “Desire,” among hundreds of other songs. As one of the first to develop a custom guitar, a square model intended to give him more freedom of movement on stage after an early performance left him with a groin injury, Diddley’s shows and songs were heavy on guitar work with witty, slangy, edgy lyrics, while jumping, lurching, balancing on his toes and shaking his knees as he wrestled with his instrument, sometimes playing it above his head, moves later pirated by Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix.