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Sounds of the Seventies: A Bo Diddley Revival

Mike Jahn, Baltimore Sun, 28 November 1971

LAST SUMMER at a Creedence Clearwater Revival concert there was an unannounced special, a warm-up band. Its leader was a middle-aged black man carrying a ridiculous-looking rectangular guitar. His name was Bo Diddley.

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