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Bo Diddley: Still Rockin'

Bill DeYoung, Goldmine, 28 February 1997

ELLAS BATES McDaniel, a.k.a. Bo Diddley, has lived the life of a rural squire in North Florida since 1983, when a dentist, making small talk, told him about some acreage deep in the woods – with a two-story log cabin and a bass-fishing lake outside the back door – that an acquaintance had up for sale.

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