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The Men Who Make the Blues: Bo Diddley

Max Jones, Melody Maker, 20 September 1969

BO DIDDLEY was born in Mississippi, in or near McComb, on December 30, 1928. Like many bluesmen from the South, he made the journey up to Chicago; but earlier than most — at the age of six, according to what he told me.

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