Thursday, December 22nd
sounds of Chicago
Bo Diddley (aka Ellas McDaniel, 1928-2008), “Bo Diddley” (E. McDaniel), live (TV show [The Ed Sullivan Show]), 1955
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2020
Friday, February 7th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Bo Diddley (AKA Ellas McDaniel, Ellas Otha Bates, 1928-2008), “Hey! Bo Diddley,” “Bo Diddley,” live, Los Angeles, 1965
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this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
There is still something I’d like to explain,
yet can’t be sure I’m ready yet.
Beside, we’ve done pretty well with the non-sequiturs,
and they by us, don’t you think?—John Ashbery (1927-2017), from “Hierarchy of the Unexpected”
2014
Friday, February 14th
What could be more romantic?
Bo Diddley (1928-2008), live, 1981
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2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
Jenny said when she was just five years old
There was nothin’ happening at all
Every time she puts on the radio
There was nothin’ goin’ down at all
Not at allThen one fine mornin’, she puts on a New York station
You know, she couldn’t believe what she heard at all
She started shakin’ to that fine, fine music
You know, her life was saved by rock and roll . . .—Lou Reed, “Rock & Roll” (The Velvet Underground, Loaded [1970])
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Bo Diddley, “Hey, Bo Diddley,” “Bo Diddley,” live (TV broadcast [Ed Sullivan Show]), 1955
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This well may be the human race’s greatest ever achievement.
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