Bo Diddley Hey Bo Diddley & Bo Diddley November 29, 1965

A bespectacled, duck-walking, pushing-40 Bo Diddley probably wouldn't be anyone's idea of a conventional heartthrob, but he sure got the girls screaming back in the day. The riotous crowd watching his two-song set here at The Big T.N.T. Show (sequel to the legendary T.A.M.I. Show flick from the year before) certainly had every reason to lose their shit, though — the strutting Diddley oozes rock and roll out of every pore, getting more out of one cha-chunked guitar chord than anyone else before or since. Watch the technique, indeed.