Farewell to ‘the Originator’
LAST UPDATED AT 12:27 ON Tue 3 Jun 2008

The cover of his first release, the 1955 single Bo Diddley/I'm a man. Bo Diddley on the back of his customised scooter with Jerome Green in New York City in September 1959
Bo Diddley, one of rock 'n' roll's early pioneers, dies aged 79