Jones yawned in opponents' faces - literally - he talked endlessly about stepping up to challenge Evander Holyfield at heavyweight, he played basketball on the eve of fights, he cut hip-hop records.

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He knew exactly how to get his records played.

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Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates in Mississippi and grew up in Chicago, where he played guitar on street corners before being discovered by Chess Records.

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In the early 1960s, he left South Africa, first going to London, then coming to the U.S. Harry Belafonte, whose calypso records had launched his career, sponsored Masekela's studies at Manhattan School of Music, where he played trumpet in the symphony and sang in the opera choir.

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