Editing Bo Diddley (section)

==Early life==
Bo Diddley was born in [[McComb, Mississippi]],{{refn|group=nb|Some sources give his birthplace as [[Magnolia, Mississippi]], saying that his mother moved to [[McComb, Mississippi]], when he was an infant.<ref name="SewellDwight1984">{{cite book |last1=Sewell |first1=George A. |last2=Dwight |first2=Margaret L. |title=Mississippi Black History Makers |date=1984 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-60473-390-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ve8QmE8kdjIC&pg=PA312 |language=en}}</ref>}} as Ellas Otha Bates (also stated as Otha Ellas Bates or Elias Otha Bates).<ref name="Abjorensen2017">{{cite book |last1=Abjorensen |first1=Norman |title=Historical Dictionary of Popular Music |year=2023|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-5381-0215-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZyrDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA58 |language=en |page=58}}</ref> He was the only child of Ethel Wilson, a  sharecropper's teenaged daughter, and Eugene Bates,<ref name="GatesDubois2004">{{cite book |last1=Saniek |first1=David|editor1-last=Gates |editor1-first=Henry Louis Jr.|editor2-last=DuBois |editor2-first=W. E. B. |editor3-last=Higginbotham |editor3-first=Evelyn Brooks |title=African American Lives |date=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-516024-6 |pages=230–232 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rYgRDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA230 |language=en |chapter=Diddley, Bo}}</ref> whom he never knew. Wilson was only sixteen, and being unable to support a family, she gave her cousin, Gussie McDaniel,<ref name="Sawyers2012">{{cite book |last1=Sawyers |first1=June Skinner |title=Chicago Portraits: New Edition |year=2012 |publisher=Northwestern University Press |isbn=978-0-8101-2649-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qojgLBuEFEUC&pg=PA95 |language=en |page=95}}</ref> permission to raise her son.<ref name="SewellDwight1984" /> McDaniel eventually adopted him, and he assumed her surname.<ref name="Finkelman2009">{{cite book |last1=Finkelman |first1=Paul |title=Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: J-N |year=2009 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-516779-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gbQHxb_P0QC&pg=PA261 |language=en |page=261}}</ref> Diddley denied ever having the name "Otha" in a 2001 interview, saying "I don't know where they got that 'Otha' from",<ref>{{Citation |title=Speaking Freely: Bo Diddley | date=July 21, 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqvx2evI0eE@t=2m7s |issue=Ep.209 |type=Video recording |publisher=www.newseuminstitute.org |language=en |access-date=October 5, 2022}}</ref> but his website, maintained by his estate, confirms it as his middle name.

After his adoptive father Robert died in 1934, when Diddley was five years old,<ref name="Collis1998">{{cite book |last1=Collis |first1=John |title=The Story of Chess Records |year=1998 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-58234-005-0 |page=112 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZASIpS00zv8C&pg=PA112 |language=en}}</ref> Gussie McDaniel moved with him and her three children to the [[South Side, Chicago|South Side]] of Chicago;<ref name="Pruter1996" />{{refn|group=nb|Some sources say Gussie McDaniel moved to Chicago in 1935 rather than 1934.}} he later dropped Otha from his name and became Ellas McDaniel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bodiddley.com/history.html|title=Bo Diddley -History|website=Bodiddley.com|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-date=February 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212011528/http://www.bodiddley.com/history.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He was an active member of Chicago's [[Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church (Chicago)|Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church]],<ref name="Charry2020">{{cite book |last1=Charry |first1=Eric |title=A New and Concise History of Rock and R&B through the Early 1990s |year=2020 |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |isbn=978-0-8195-7896-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0nzZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59 |language=en |page=59}}</ref> where he studied the [[trombone]] and the [[violin]],<ref name="Pruter1996">{{cite book |last1=Pruter |first1=Robert |title=Doowop: The Chicago Scene |year=1996 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-06506-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j06dhDdsgioC&pg=PA72 |language=en |pages=72–73}}</ref> becoming so proficient on the violin that the musical director invited him to join the orchestra, in which he played until he was 18. However, he was more interested in the joyful, rhythmic music he heard at a local [[Pentecostal Church]] and took up the guitar;<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2066171/Bo-Diddley.html | work=The Daily Telegraph | location=London | title=Bo Diddley, who has died aged 79, was one of the most important influences in the development of popular music, even though for much of his career he was seldom in the charts or in the recording studio. | date=June 2, 2008 | access-date=April 26, 2010 | archive-date=November 1, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091101173449/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2066171/Bo-Diddley.html | url-status=live }}</ref> his first recordings were based on that frenetic church music.<ref name="Capace2001">{{cite book |last1=Capace |first1=Nancy |title=Encyclopedia of Mississippi |date=2001 |publisher=Somerset Publishers, Inc. |isbn=978-0-403-09603-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dlLDIiQv9twC&pg=PA170 |language=en}}</ref> Diddley said he thought that the trance-like rhythm he used in his rhythm and blues music came from the [[Original Church of God or Sanctified Church|Sanctified]] churches he had attended as a youth in his Chicago neighborhood.<ref name="Sullivan2013">{{cite book |last1=Sullivan |first1=Steve |title=Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings |date=2013 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-8296-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QWBPAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 |page= 86 |language=en}}</ref>