Bo Diddley - Mona download song

Johnny Marr's use of this riff for The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now" -- something he has acknowledged -- seems pretty clear upon listening to it.

The hippest Bo Diddley song. Listen to how intense he sounds, how deep the song seems to cut. So sad to hear of his passing just now

this track feels ahead of its time. how soon is 1957?

I discovered Bo Diddley at age 13 when The Rolling Stones recorded "Mona." Still on my top-ten list of Stones' recordings.

I grew up on the Sun Records artists of Memphis cause my Dad's big influence on me musically I started with Elvis of course then Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee and Johnny Cash ...Sonny Burgess, Carl Mann , others like legendary Buddy Holly, I could go on ...Bo Diddley was one of the guitar icons I discovered on my own, I bought his 1960 classic Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger at a garage sale around early 1977, I dug for more Bo after that !...all my friends talk of who's the best guitarist of all time ...Eddie Van Halen, Dimbag Darrel, Tony Iommi, always listed ...Bo is where it started Rock & Roll guitar thunder at it's bestest and juiciest Bo Diddley best! rest in peace Diddley !

One of the greatest and most underrated.

His voice is incredible on this, best version for that alone.

Beautiful lyrics: build my house next door to you...we can throw kisses through the blinds, listen go my heart go bumpety bump

this man invented rock n roll.... love you bo diddley

A great rock and roll track from Bo. A legend of his time and a good record many have tried to do and can't come near to this at all.

Wow Johnny Marr wasn't kidding... I realize it's just the tremolo effect, but anyone else hear How Soon Is Now?

reply to whippersnappertgr I was at that Louisville concert you mentioned 1982. It was a magical night. Bo used a local backing band and another local band, The Holidays, opened for him. For the last song, they played Mona for over 15 minutes and every musician there plugged in and played along. As I recall, including Bo, there where eight guitarist playing Mona, almost comical. It was such a festive crowd and mood no one wanted to stop, and even Bo Diddley seemed to be elevated by the night and kept the Mona going strong for one round after another. And like you observed, it seemed everyone in the place danced to every second of it. My favorite concert memory of all time owed to the great Bo Diddley.

bo diddley forever

Anyone out there today even remotely talented as Bo Diddley? I doubt it.

You will notice that Bo does not use the same rhythmic pattern on Mona as he does on his first hit, "Bo Diddley". Yet every artist who covers it does. That is because Bo's many different rhythmic patterns were complex, and nobody else has mastered most of them. Everybody knows just that first one.

It is not just the tremolo effect Bo did at some time build his own Amplifiers that also gave Him a wider range of sounds if you listen to other Artists you can hear that they could get close but not as close to copying Bo due to his early masterful sound that he created

I would love to have been a fly on the wall for the tour featuring this legend and the Clash, the days of odd paired concert bills.

I'm now telling everyone that I was named after this song.

Bo wrote many classic songs. I always loved his plaintive cry for Mona. She must have been quite a woman. Hey! Hey Hey Hey! Mona ...