Written by Bo Diddley, "Bo Diddley" is a song that introduced the Bo Diddley beat and topped the Billboard R&B chart for two weeks in 1955. In 1998, "Bo Diddley" received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and it is included on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll". In 2011, the A and B-side pair were added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry list of "culturally, historically, or aesthetically important" American sound recordings. In 2017, the single was inducted in to the Blues Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone ranked the song at No. 62 on its 2004 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
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