Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley (December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008) was the stage name for Ellas Otha Bates, an American rock and roll vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and inventor. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from the blues to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Clash,The Yardbirds, and Eric Clapton. He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard-edged guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs. Accordingly, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundationand a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He was known in particular for his technical innovations, including his trademark rectangular guitar.
Success in the 1950s and 1960s
On November 20, 1955, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, a popular television variety show, where he infuriated the host. "I did two songs and he got mad," Bo Diddley later recalled. "Ed Sullivan said that I was one of the first colored boys to ever double-cross him. Said that I wouldn't last six months". The show had requested that he sing the Merle Travis-penned Tennessee Ernie Ford hit "Sixteen Tons", but when he appeared on stage, he sang "Bo Diddley" instead. This substitution resulted in his being banned from further appearances.

The request came about because Sullivan's people heard Diddley casually singing "Sixteen Tons" in the dressing room. Diddley's accounts of the event were inconsistent. 
Chess included Diddley's recording of "Sixteen Tons" on the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger, which was originally released in 1960. 
He continued to have hits through the rest of the 1950s and even the 1960s, including "Pretty Thing" (1956), "Say Man" (1959), and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" (1962). He released a string of albums whose titles, including Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger and Have Guitar, Will Travel, were bolstered his self-invented legend. Between 1958 and 1963, Checker Records released 11 full-length albums by Bo Diddley. Although he broke through as a crossover artist with white audiences (appearing at the Alan Freed concerts, for example), he rarely tailored his compositions to teenage concerns.
In 1963, he starred in a UK concert tour with the Everly Brothers and Little Richard. The Rolling Stones, still barely known outside London at that time, appeared as a supporting act on the same bill.
In addition to the many songs recorded by him, in 1956 he co-wrote, with Jody Williams, the pioneering pop song "Love Is Strange", a hit forMickey & Sylvia in 1957. 
Bo Diddley was one of the first American male musicians to include women in his band, including "The Duchess" Norma-Jean Wofford, Peggy Jones (aka "Lady Bo"), Cornelia Redmond (aka Cookie), and Debby Hastings, who led his band for the final 25 years of his performing career. He also set up one of the first home recording studios.
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Bob Dylan All I Really Want to Do

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) was an American singer songwriterwho became a major figure in music for five decades. Many of the earliest known works of the 1960s when he was a columnist and an informal doll that seemed reluctant, social unrest. Some songs like "Blowin 'in the Wind" and "The Times They-Changin'" became the anthem for the civil movement rightsand anti-American war. His words at the beginning incorporated a variety of political influences, social and philosophical and literary. They challenged the existing pop music conventions and seek in the game very well developed. Originally inspired by Woody Guthrie song, [11] Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has been both enhanced and your personal music genre, exploring the different traditions in the American music, folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, androckabilly, English, Scottish and Irish folk music, jazz and even swing arm.

Dylan playing guitar, keyboard, and harmonica. Powered by changing lineup of musicians, he has been touring since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. His accomplishments as an artist and is very central player in his career, but the greatest contribution is generally regarded as his songs.

Since 1994, Dylan published three books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. As a composer and musician, Dylan has won many awards over the years, including a Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Awards, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame andSongwriters Hall of Fame. In 2008, Bob Dylan door open to honor the singer in her hometown of Duluth, Minnesota. Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special mention for what they call a profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.

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