Here's a list of songs that have the Bo Diddley beat:

The Who - "Magic Bus"

George Michael- "Faith"

U2 - "Desire"

Bruce Springsteen - "She's the One"

David Bowie - "Panic in Detroit"

Duane Eddy - "Cannonball"

Buddy Holly/Rolling Stones/Patti Smith - "Not Fade Away"

Johnny Otis - "Willie and the Hand Jive"

The Stooges - "1969"

Shirley & Company - "Shame Shame Shame"

The Strangeloves/Bow Wow Wow - "I Want Candy"

The Blues Rockers - "Callin' All Cows"

Elvis Presley - "His Latest Flame"

Steppenwolf - "Magic Carpet Ride"

The Guess Who - "American Woman"

Grateful Dead - "Man Smart, Woman Smarter"

Talking Heads - "Ruby Dear"

The Fall - "Bo Demmick"

Guns 'n Roses - "Mr. Brownstone"

(Source: Los Angeles Times)
[Edited 6/5/08 8:43am]

I love that beat, my fave though is

The Allman Brothers Band - No One To Run With

RIP Bo

Rest in peace, Bo.

The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time: Bo Diddley
by Iggy Pop (From Rolling Stone magazine)

Bo Diddley's music is enormous. It's deeply moving. It has the sultry, sexual power of Africa.

There's all sorts of mystery in that sound. People listen to Bo Diddley recordings and think, "Oh, you can just go bonk-de-bonk-bonk, de-bonk-bonk, and you got a Bo Diddley beat." But it isn't that easy. He played really simple things but with incredible authority.

I first heard him on a Rolling Stones album, on their cover of "Mona." It was such a great song; I looked at the credits and it said "Ellas McDaniel," and I thought, "Who the hell is that?" But when I wanted to get into songwriting, he was the key for me. I didn't have a lot of vocal range, and I didn't know a lot of chords on the guitar. So I was looking for a way to write, and there he was, writing very complete, very memorable songs without a lot of fuss. They weren't florid. He never bothered to change the chord, for one thing -- which is very heavy-metal! It's hypnotic. And, of course, there's the attitude, a chin-up, chest-out sort of thing. He was a bull; he had a bullish quality.

Vocally, he reminds me of gutbucket Delta blues: Muddy Waters, but brought to town, rocked up. And his voice is so damn loud. It's just a huge voice, and he's got a big, deep shout.

Then there's the way he played the guitar. First of all, Bo's hands are about a foot long from the wrist to the tip of the finger. He really controls his guitar. Bo plays his instrument, and the way the rhythm clicks is unique. What seems to pass for guitar more and more now is some wimp with a fuzz box. Somewhere around Hendrix, the line was crossed. Hendrix had both: He had the hands, and he had the fuzz box. Now all they have is the fuzz box -- a lot of them.

Bo Diddley had a huge impact on Sixties rock. The Stones covered Bo Diddley, and the Yardbirds did "I'm a Man," and the Pretty Things did his song "Pretty Thing." My band in high school, the Iguanas, did a few of his songs, including "Road Runner," and you can hear a bit of him in the Stooges. You can be damn well sure that Jack White has studied Bo's records.

I've had a little personal experience with Bo. I worked with him in Vegas once, and I kept running into him on airplanes in the Eighties and Nineties -- always in first class, always alone, always with a roll bag, his police hat and his sheriff's badge.

I think Bo and Chuck Berry have both suffered the trivialization of people who are covered too much. Their influence is everywhere, but their personal careers could use a boost. Some car or jeans company needs to put a track of his in a commercial so a lot of young dudes and dudettes can go, "Whoa -- that's rockin'!"