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Originally posted by Splitcoil:
You are talking about Burma now, right? I've been listening to NPR reporting from China pretty much since the moment the quake hit. As they keep saying over and over again, their people were in Chengdu working when the quake hit. They've been there ever since and it sounds like they're not really being bothered by the gov.

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Bo Diddley knew Bo Diddley's place in rock 'n' roll history: "I was the first dude out there."

Diddley, the pioneering performer whose shuffling rhythm guitar sound can be found in the DNA of hits by everyone from Buddy Holly to George Michael, and who famously found a sparring partner in two-sport athlete Bo Jackson, died today of heart failure at his Florida home. He was 79.

"Tell everybody you never get tool old to rock 'n' roll," Diddley told National Public Radio in 2007.

True enough, Diddley remained on the road until last year when he suffered first a stroke and then a heart attack.

A 1987 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Diddley's five-decade-long recording career was marked by hits such as "Who Do You Love" and the self-titled jam, "Bo Diddley." [...]

Diddley was born Ellas Otha Bates, on Dec. 30, 1928, in McComb, Miss. His official biography notes that he later took the surname McDaniel after the family member who raised him, but not even it is certain of where and how Ellas McDaniel morphed into Bo Diddley.

Whatever the story, the rechristened Diddley began making a music name for himself in 1955, with his first hit single, "I'm a Man."

"Bo Diddley" soon followed, and with it, the syncopated, 5/4 "Bo Diddley beat" that would go on to power songs such as Holly's "Not Fade Away" and Michael's "Faith," and inspire acts such as the Rolling Stones, the Who and even punk rock's the Clash, with whom Diddley toured in 1979.

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He stressed such an operation could only be conducted with US support.