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...taken white audiences 20 years to discover them. Until early in 1968, King was locked into a dreary circuit of one-nighters-sometimes more than 300 a year-in big-city ghetto clubs and back-country roadhouses and shacks. Unlike such performers as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, he was not flamboyant or commercial enough to cash in on the rock-'n'-roll explosion of the 1950s. Unlike such country stylists as Son House and Mississippi John Hurt, he was not primitive enough to be taken up in the folk revival of the early 1960s...
...than their musical output. They were formed in 1964 when Townshend, the son of a dance-band saxophonist in suburban London, met the other three in school. Their early local successes were based on imitations of U.S. blues and rock 'n' roll performers (John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley). Later, they pioneered in pop-art costumes, such as jackets made from Union Jacks. Then they began literally breaking things up-and probably inspired the guitar-burning antics of Singer Jimi Hendrix as well as the Yardbirds' memorable discotheque scene in the film Blow...
...this began to change with such English rock 'n' roll groups as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Animals, who made a point of crediting their sources?not only R & B figures such as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, but also country and urban bluesmen such as John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker and B. B. King. "Until the Beatles exposed the origins," says Waters, "the white kids didn't know anything about the music. But now they've learned that it was in their backyard all the time...
...Beatles, along with other British groups-the Rolling Stones, the Animals-revitalized rock by closely imitating (and frankly crediting) such Negro originators of the style as Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. Soon the Negro "soul sound" surged into the white mass market. The old-line blues merchants have enjoyed a revival, and a younger, slicker breed of rhythm-and-blues singers-notably Lou Rawls, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and the Supremes-have taken up commanding positions on the sales charts. "Until the Beatles exposed the origins, the white kids didn't know anything about the music," says...
...Diddley, Bo Diddley...