Reblogged from The Selvedge Yard:
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1979, Cleveland -- Bo Diddley opened for The Clash on their US tour -- Image by © Bob Gruen. In 1979, Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon of the Clash asked that Diddley open for them on the band's first American tour. "I can't look at him without my mouth falling open," Strummer, starstruck, told a journalist during the tour.
"Every generation has their own bag" Bo Diddley talks about opening for The Clash on their 1979 US tour.