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June 2nd, 2008
Posted: 12:31 PM ET
(CNN) — Rock and roll pioneer Bo Diddley, whose signature beat laid the Diddley was a contemporary of Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Elvis Presley Born Ellas Otha Bates in McComb, Mississippi, Diddley’s family moved to He continued to tour well into 2007, but but suffered a stroke that May He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. |
 
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