Bo Diddley
Also Known As: Elias Otha Bates, The Originator
Biography: Bo Diddley, born Elias Otha Bates, was an original and influential American rock & roll singer, guitarist and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of the key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones to name a few. He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and hard-edged guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: McComb, Mississippi, USA
Birthday: December 30, 1928
Deathday: June 02, 2008
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Gender: Male
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Eddie Cochran & Friends: C'mon Everybody
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Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Blues Brothers 2000
Overview: Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops.
Genres: Music Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-05
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Chuck Berry - Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
Overview: St. Louis, 1986. For Chuck Berry's 60th, Keith Richards assembles a pickup band of Robert Cray, Joey Spampinato, Eric Clapton, himself and long-time Berry pianist, Johnnie Johnson. Joined on stage by Etta James, Linda Ronstadt and Julian Lennon, Berry performs his classic rock songs. His abilities as a composer, lyricist, singer, musician and entertainer are on display and, in behind-the-scenes interviews, are discussed by Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bruce Springstein, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison and others. There's even a rarity for Berry—a rehearsal. Archival footage from the early 1950s and a duet with John Lennon round out this portrait of a master.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-09
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Sweet Toronto
Overview: Sweet Toronto is a documentary by D.A. Pennebaker of the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, a one day festival held September 13, 1969 at Varsity Stadium on the campus of the University of Toronto and attended by some 20,000 persons. John Lennon played as part of the Plastic Ono Band, whose members also included Yoko Ono, Klaus Voorman, Alan White, and Eric Clapton. The video also features a selection of other acts: Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Bo Diddley.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-22
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Rockula
Overview: Ralph is a sexually frustrated vampire who suffers from a peculiar curse. He's condemned for eternity to watch his one true love, Mona be murdered by a pirate wielding a ham bone. But now? Now it's 1990, and Ralph is determined to break Mona's cycle of reincarnation. His first order of business is winning her affections-- He does that by starting Rockula: a rock band that's sure to stake a claim on her heart.
Genres: Horror Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-23
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The Big T.N.T. Show
Overview: Live performances by some of the top rock-and-roll acts of the mid 60s. Includes Ray Charles, The Byrds, Joan Baez, Ike and Tina Turner, Donovan, The Lovin' Spoonful, and several more.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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Guitar Legends EXPO '92 at Sevilla - The Blues Night
Overview: Guitar Legends was a concert held over five nights, from October 15 to October 19, 1991, in Seville, Spain, with the aim of positioning the city as an entertainment destination to draw support for Expo '92 beginning the following April. The event featured 27 top guitarists, including BB King, Brian May, George Benson, Joe Walsh, Keith Richards, Les Paul, Robbie Robertson, Robert Cray, Roger Waters, Albert Collins, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. The vocalists included Rickie Lee Jones, Bob Dylan and Joe Cocker. Five 90-minute shows and a one-hour documentary were broadcast. Forty-five countries showed at least one live show. Later, broadcasters in 105 countries broadcast one or more programmes.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-15
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Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street
Overview: This 90 minute, 3-act documentary details the rise & fall of Maxwell Street, Chicago's great outdoor market, the birthplace of the electric blues and where "the only color that mattered was green".
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-31
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The Rolling Stones: Voodoo Lounge
Overview: Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge DVD contains 17 tracks which are Not fade away, Tumbling Dice, You got me rocking, Satisfaction, Angie, Sweet Virginia, Its all over now, Stop breaking down, Who do you love, Miss you, Honky Tonk Woman, The Worst, Sympathy for the devil, Start me up, Its only rock n roll, Brown Sugar, Jumpin Jack Flash.
Genres: Music Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-05
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Bo Diddley's Back in Town
Overview: Rock and roll legend Bo Diddley spends a day in Toronto with a young musician, and shares his philosophies and experiences. They hang out and play music together before Diddley puts on an electrifying concert that evening.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Ron Wood and Bo Diddley: Japan 1988
Overview: “Live In Japan” was recorded in Tokyo and was the first of eleven club gigs for Ron Wood & Bo Diddley in March ’88.
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Original Language: en
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Let the Good Times Roll
Overview: Documentary of a 1950s rock and roll revival show, with split-screen editing to rival Woodstock.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-25
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Dick Clark's Good Old Days
Overview: Dick Clark reviews popular music of the '50s and '60s.
Genres: TV Movie Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-11
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me
Overview: Portrait of an important American musician through the testimonies of fellow musicians and people from his environment, but also through archival material and documents from various stages of his life and career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-01
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Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!
Overview: In the sixties, Eddie and the cruisers was the hottest band around. But the tragic death of its lead singer broke the band up. Only Eddie is not dead. He works as a carpenter in Montreal. His love of music forces him to create a new band which will have to struggle with its anonymity.
Genres: Drama Thriller Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-18
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Legends of Rock 'n' Roll
Overview: Are you ready for some old-time rock and roll?! Then you are ready for the masters, the originators, the men who made the music, the "Legends of Rock 'n' Roll Live." Join the "Godfather of Soul" James Brown, "The Killer" Jerry Lee Lewis, "Mr. Blueberry Hill" Fats Domino, "Hey" Bo Diddley, the "Genius" Ray Charles, "King of the Blues" B.B. King and "Tutti Frutti" Little Richard as they raise the roof "old school style." There's nothing like the originals, and this concert proves it once and for all! Songs: Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, I Feel Good [I Got You] (James Brown), Bo Diddley, I'm a Man (Bo Diddley), Mess Around, I'm a Fool For You (Ray Charles), Great Gosh a' Mighty (Little Richard), The Wild One [Real Wild Child], Great Balls of Fire, Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (Jerry Lee Lewis), I'm Ready, Blueberry Hill (Fats Domino), Let the Good Times Roll, How Blue Can You Get? (B.B. King), All-Star Jam (Company).
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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A Tribute to Muddy Waters - Live
Overview: 1. Koko Taylor - I'm Ready 2. Big Bill Morganfield - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man 3. Keb Mo - I Can't Be Satisfied 4. Keb Mo - Two Trains Running 5. Bo Diddley - I'm A Man 6. Phoebe Snow - Just To Be With You 7. John Hyatt - Big Legged Woman 8. M. Shannon - Gypsy Woman 9. George "Buddy" Guy - Make A Woman Feel Satisfied 10. Robert Lockwood Jr. - Mean Black Spider 11. Nick Gravenites - Forty Days And Forty Nights 12. Peter Wolfe - Rollin'And Tumblin' 13. Koko Taylor - Long Distance Call 14. Gregg Allman - Someday Baby 15. Big Bill Morganfield - Mojo 16. Remember Muddy
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-20
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Bluesy Entertainment: Live
Overview: 1. Introduction 2. Someday Baby - Gregg Allman 3. Just To Be With You - Phoebe Snow 4. Chains Of Love - Big Joe Turner 5. Make A Woman Feel Satisfied - George "Buddy" Guy 6. Sweet Papa John - Johnny Winter 7. Big Legged Woman - John Hyatt 8. Baby Don't You Know - Roy Milton 9. Porty Days And Porty Nights - Nick Grave Nites 10. Texas Plood - Stevie Ray Vaughan 11. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man - Big Hill Morganfield 12. Misery - Esther Phillips 13. Rollin' And Tumblin' - Peter Wolfe 14. The Thrill Is Gone - B.B. King 15. I'm Ready - Koko Taylor 16. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley 17. Mean Black Spider - Robert Lockwood 18. Gypsy Woman - Matt Shannon 19. Two Trains Running - Keb Mo 20. Follow the Blues
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-30
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This Is America Part 2
Overview: The sequel to This is America, aka Jabberwalk. This film goes inside the real America circa 1980 - a world of punks, orgies and worm-eating hicks! Romano Vanderbes back on the film making side and Norman Rose back on narrating duty for the second of the This Is America trilogy. Things kick off slightly louder this time with a performance by The Dictators doing a version of America the Beautiful while the titles role, then right into piece about punk star Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedy's running for mayor of San Francisco. Then back into a more This Is America feeling segment about a crazy fat bloke called Captain Sticky. Among some of the other more interesting segments we get a look at underground vagrants, a piranha attack, martial arts nuns, a family of worm eaters, a drug abusing church and ends with a death row electrocution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-05
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30th Anniversary of Rock 'n' Roll All-Star Jam: Bo Diddley
Overview: Some of rock's greatest musicians -- including Ron Wood, John Lodge, Kenny Jones, John Mayall, Carl Wilson and Mick Fleetwood -- jam with Bo Diddley at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in California. This tribute to the legendary guitarist includes backstage interviews and rehearsal footage as well as recordings from the 1985 concert. Songs include "I'm a Man," "Bo Diddley Put the Rock in Rock 'n' Roll," "Who Do You Love?" and more.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Godfathers and Sons
Overview: Director Marc Levin travels to Chicago with hip-hop legend Chuck D (from Public Enemy) and Marshall Chess (son of Leonard Chess and heir to the legacy of Chess Records) to explore the heyday of the Chicago blues and how they come together to produce an album that seeks to bring veteran blues players along with contemporary hip hop musicians. Along with never before seen footage from Howlin 'Wolf, Muddy Waters and Paul Butterfield Blues Band, they are original performances by Koko Taylor, Otis Rush, Magic Slim, Ike Turner and Sam Lay.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-02
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Live Aid
Overview: Live Aid was held on 13 July 1985, simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, and the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, United States. It was one of the largest scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: watched live by an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations. "It's twelve noon in London, seven AM in Philadelphia, and around the world it's time for Live Aid...!"
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-13
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Crush Proof
Overview: A young man recalls his affair with a young French woman who traveled with him across the United States. They began to drift apart during the trip, and eventually each had affairs with other people before realizing that their relationship had run its course.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-04
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The Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge Uncut
Overview: Voodoo Lounge Uncut presents for the first time the full, unedited show filmed on November 25th 1994 at Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium. Originally directed by the legendary David Mallet, this new version features 10 performances omitted from it's previous release in the 90s, and the full show is now presented in it's original running order. With its ahead-of-its-time cyberworld staging, guest appearances from Sheryl Crow, Robert Cray and Bo Diddley, and a setlist combining classic tracks with material from the Voodoo Lounge album, this phenomenal show can now be enjoyed as originally intended. As an added bonus, all visual formats feature five tracks from an earlier date on the Voodoo Lounge Tour that weren't performed in Miami - making this the definitive record of The Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge Tour.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-16
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The London Rock and Roll Show
Overview: Filmed record of a major rock and roll festival held at Wembley Stadium, London, in August 1972. London Rock and Roll Show begins with excerpts from numerous "warm-up" performers shown singing either covers of 1950s hits, or original tunes, including a performance by Screaming Lord Sutch that threatens to end the concert prematurely when he brings a stripper on stage. The main concert segment begins with Bo Diddley and continues with a string of other major performers including Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Bill Haley and His Comets. The concert ends with an extended performance by Chuck Berry, who at the time was enjoying major chart success in Britain and the US with his "My Ding-a-Ling" (although he does not perform that song in this film). Mick Jagger also appears in several non-musical interludes in which he is interviewed about the performers.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Chuck Berry & Bo Diddley: Rock 'n' Roll All Star Jam
Overview: In 1985, Bo Diddley put together a band that included Ron Wood, John Mayall, Mick Fleetwood, Kenny Jones, Carmine Appice, John Lodge, Ronnie Lane, Carl Wilson, and members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Chicago, Quiet Riot, and Three Dog Night. He cooked them all a barbecue dinner, and then they put on a show. It's a 55-minute Rand B jamfest.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-25
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Trading Places
Overview: A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-07
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Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
Overview: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Little Richard, The Doors, Chuck Berry, Alice Cooper, and other legendary musicians performed at the 1969 Toronto Rock and Roll Revival music festival. This behind-the-scenes look at “the second most important event in rock and roll history” culminates in John Lennon’s first public performance with The Plastic Ono Band, triggering his decision to leave the Beatles.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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