Oh hell yes he was. That sound did not fail to register in my body, as a child. Long before I knew what those rhythms meant. And there they have stayed. To hear and to feel them today is to know a part of life that time does not touch. Neither wither nor stale. Bo Diddley—born Otha Ellas Bates, 28 December 1928, in McComb, Mississippi—was, and shall remain, classic.

Oh yes.