Hey! Bo Diddley - Music

Ron Wood & Bo Didley Read The Biographies Of Both Artist Individually Below. Ron Wood Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood Born 1 June 1947 Is An English Rock Musician Songwriter Singer Artist And Radio Personality Best Known As A Member Of The Rolling Stones Since 1975 As Well As A Member Of The Faces And Former Member Of The Jeff Beck Group. Wood Began His Career In 1964 When He Joined The Birds On Guitar. He Then Joined The Mod Group The Creation But Only Remained With The Group For A Short Time And Appeared On A Small Number Of Singles. Wood Joined The Jeff Beck Group In 1967 As A Bass Player. They Released Two Albums Truth And Beck-Ola Which Became Moderate Successes. The Group Split In 1969 And Wood Departed Along With Lead Vocalist Rod Stewart To Join Former Small Faces Members Ronnie Lane Ian McLagan And Kenney Jones In A New Group Dubbed The Faces. The Group Although Relegated To Cult Status In The US Found Great Success In The UK And Mainland Europe. The Faces Released Their Debut Album First Step In 1970. The Group Went On To Release Long Player And A Nod Is As Good As A Wink... To A Blind Horse In 1971. Their Last LP Entitled Ooh La La Was Released In 1973. After The Group Split Wood Began Several Solo Projects Eventually Recording His First Solo LP I've Got My Own Album To Do In 1974. The Album Featured Former Bandmate McLagan As Well As Former Beatle George Harrison And Keith Richards Of The Rolling Stones A Longtime Friend Of Wood's. Richards Soon Invited Wood To Join The Rolling Stones After The Departure Of Mick Taylor. Wood Joined In 1975 And Has Remained A Member Ever Since. Besides I've Got My Own Album To Do Wood Has Recorded Several Other Solo Efforts. Now Look Was Released In 1975 And Peaked At Number 118 On Billboard And Wood Collaborated With Ronnie Lane For The Soundtrack Album Mahoney's Last Stand. He Released Gimme Some Neck In 1979 Which Hit Number 45 In The US. 1234 Was Released In 1981 Peaking At Number 164. He Released Slide On This In 1992 Not For Beginners Came Out In 2002. And I Feel Like Playing In 2010. As A Member Of The Rolling Stones Wood Was Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame In 1989 And Was Inducted A Second Time As A Member Of The Faces In April 2012. Official Website Ronnie Wood Bo Didley All Music Artist Biography By Richie Unterberger He Only Had A Few Hits In The 1950s And Early '60s But As Bo Diddley Sang "You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover." You Can't Judge An Artist By His Chart Success Either And Diddley Produced Greater And More Influential Music Than All But A Handful Of The Best Early Rockers. The Bo Diddley Beat -- Bomp Ba-Bomp-Bomp Bomp-Bomp -- Is One Of Rock & Roll's Bedrock Rhythms Showing Up In The Work Of Buddy Holly The Rolling Stones And Even Pop-Garage Knock-Offs Like The Strangeloves' 1965 Hit "I Want Candy." Diddley's Hypnotic Rhythmic Attack And Declamatory Boasting Vocals Stretched Back As Far As Africa For Their Roots And Looked As Far Into The Future As Rap. His Trademark Otherworldly Vibrating Fuzzy Guitar Style Did Much To Expand The Instrument's Power And Range. But Even More Important Bo's Bounce Was Fun And Irresistibly Rocking With A Wisecracking Jiving Tone That Epitomized Rock & Roll At Its Most Humorously Outlandish And Freewheeling. Before Taking Up Blues And R&B Diddley Had Studied Classical Violin But Shifted Gears After Hearing John Lee Hooker. In The Early '50s He Began Playing With His Longtime Partner Maraca Player Jerome Green To Get What Bo's Called "that Freight Train Sound." Billy Boy Arnold A Fine Blues Harmonica Player And Singer In His Own Right Was Also Playing With Diddley When The Guitarist Got A Deal With Chess In The Mid-'50s After Being Turned Down By Rival Chicago Label Vee-Jay . His Very First Single "Bo Diddley"/"I'm A Man" 1955 Was A Double-Sided Monster. The A-Side Was Soaked With Futuristic Waves Of Tremolo Guitar Set To An Ageless Nursery Rhyme The Flip Was A Bump-And-Grind Harmonica-Driven Shuffle Based Around A Devastating Blues Riff. But The Result Was Not Exactly Blues Or Even Straight R&B But A New Kind Of Guitar-Based Rock & Roll Soaked In The Blues And R&B But Owing Allegiance To Neither. Diddley Was Never A Top Seller On The Order Of His Chess Rival Chuck Berry But Over The Next Half-Dozen Or So Years He Produced A Catalog Of Classics That Rival Berry's In Quality. "You Don't Love Me " "Diddley Daddy " "Pretty Thing " "Diddy Wah Diddy " "Who Do You Love? " "Mona " "Road Runner " "You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover" -- All Are Stone-Cold Standards Of Early Riff-Driven Rock & Roll At Its Funkiest. Oddly Enough His Only Top 20 Pop Hit Was An Atypical Absurd Back-And-Forth Rap Between Him And Jerome Green "Say Man " That Came About Almost By Accident As The Pair Were Fooling Around In The Studio. As A Live Performer Diddley Was Galvanizing Using His Trademark Square Guitars And Distorted Amplification To Produce New Sounds That Anticipated The Innovations Of '60s Guitarists Like Jimi Hendrix. In Great Britain He Was Revered As A Giant On The Order Of Chuck Berry And Muddy Waters. The Rolling Stones In Particular Borrowed A Lot From Bo's Rhythms And Attitude In Their Early Days Although They Only Officially Covered A Couple Of His Tunes "Mona" And "I'm Alright." Other British R&B Groups Like The Yardbirds Animals And Pretty Things Also Covered Diddley Standards In Their Early Days. Buddy Holly Covered "Bo Diddley" And Used A Modified Bo Diddley Beat On "Not Fade Away" When The Stones Gave The Song The Full-On Bo Treatment Complete With Shaking Maracas The Result Was Their First Big British Hit. The British Invasion Helped Increase The Public's Awareness Of Diddley's Importance And Ever Since Then He's Been A Popular Live Act. Sadly Though His Career As A Recording Artist -- In Commercial And Artistic Terms -- Was Over By The Time The Beatles And Stones Hit America. He Would Record With Ongoing And Declining Frequency But After 1963 He Never Wrote Or Recorded Original Material On Par With His Early Classics. Whether He'd Spent His Muse Or Just Felt He Could Coast On His Laurels Is Hard To Say. But He Remains A Vital Part Of The Collective Rock & Roll Consciousness And Occasionally Reached Wider Visibility Via A 1979 Tour With The Clash A Cameo Role In The Film Trading Places A Late-'80s Tour With Ronnie Wood And A 1989 Television Commercial For Sports Shoes With Star Athlete Bo Jackson. read less