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POPSBo Diddley Dies In Florida At 79 Like B.B. King and other great blues and rhythm-and-blues artists, Diddley's first exposure to music came from church, in this case the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side. He learned to play the violin and the trombone. At age 12, Diddley took up the guitar after hearing John Lee Hooker's 1949 rhythm-and-blues hit, ``Boogie Chillen.'' ``Diddley claimed that playing the violin influenced his muted-string, choke-neck style of rhythm -- an early forerunner of funk that can be heard on songs like `Pretty Thing,''' the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame says in its official Bo Diddley biography.
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POPSR.I.P. Bo Diddley Sad news from the New York Times : Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive ''shave and a haircut, two bits'' rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79. Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation. I was half-convinced he could never die. Here's Bo Diddley playing a song named, appropriately enough, Bo Diddley .
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POPS Ethanol Bust::Stocks,Bush, Archer Daniels Losers
Ethanol is a form of alcohol indistinguishable from moonshine that's created by fermenting and distilling the starches from corn, sugar, wheat and other crops. Harvesting, crushing, fermenting and distilling corn requires 29 percent more energy than ethanol produces. Two years later, after ethanol prices tumbled to a 28-month low, VeraSun Energy Corp. of Brookings, South Dakota, halted work on a 110 million-gallon distillery in the town. Five other projects have been canceled since Oct. 1, including an Alta, Iowa, mill for BioFuel Energy Corp., which sold shares to the public for the first time in June. The stock dropped 52 percent since the offering, wiping out more than $180 million in market value. Lenders have cut off funds for mills that weren't already under construction when prices began to drop, says Ron Miller, chief executive officer at Pekin, Illinois-based Aventine. Today it's very difficult if not impossible to get financing based upon these current margins.''
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