Bo Diddley, correctly, never felt he got his due as one of the founding fathers of rock n’ roll.
Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley get most of the credit for what became the broader version of rock n’ roll, but as fellow legend Fats Dominos, said, what people called rock n’ roll had been played for 15 years in New Orleans, which pushes it back to the late ‘30s or early ‘40s.
But no one did it quite like Bo Diddley.
Born Elias Bates in Mississippi, he became Elias McDaniel when a relative raised him before becoming Bo Diddley.