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When Bo Diddley records a live BBC Radio session for the show Saturday Club in London, England, UK, Europe, his backing group is The Rolling Stones.Full article:
Peter Grant (road manager, Bo Diddley] : I was responsible for getting The Stones their first appearance on BBC Radio. There was a show in the early sixties called Saturday Club. They'd auditioned The Stones and turned them down for the programme because they weren't considered good enough. Now Bo Diddley needed a band to back him on the show and I suggested to the compere, Brian Matthew, that the Stones should fill this role. He agreed to it…
Bernie Andrews (BBC producer) : I wanted to get The Stones in, obviously, and at that time Bo Diddley was due to come over to the U.K. to do a tour, and I couldn't use the American backing musicians because of work-permit problems. So I had to employ a British band to back him.
Peter Grant : …but then I got a call from the producer of Saturday Club telling me that since the band had failed the audition he felt it wasn't such a good suggestion to use them. I replied, 'No Stones, no Bo Diddley.' They got the job …and the first break on the radio.
Bernie Andrews : Bo Diddley was trying to get Charlie Watts, the drummer, to do the Bo Diddley beat . Bo went up behind Charlie Watts on the drum kit, he held both of his hands from the back and he said, 'Come on. Like this …OK. Hold that. Keep going on that.' And he ran back to the vocal mike and carried on singing, and we recorded it.
(Peter Grant quotes from Raw, 19 May 1989)
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Bernie Andrews (BBC producer) : I wanted to get The Stones in, obviously, and at that time Bo Diddley was due to come over to the U.K. to do a tour, and I couldn't use the American backing musicians because of work-permit problems. So I had to employ a British band to back him.
Peter Grant : …but then I got a call from the producer of Saturday Club telling me that since the band had failed the audition he felt it wasn't such a good suggestion to use them. I replied, 'No Stones, no Bo Diddley.' They got the job …and the first break on the radio.
Bernie Andrews : Bo Diddley was trying to get Charlie Watts, the drummer, to do the Bo Diddley beat . Bo went up behind Charlie Watts on the drum kit, he held both of his hands from the back and he said, 'Come on. Like this …OK. Hold that. Keep going on that.' And he ran back to the vocal mike and carried on singing, and we recorded it.
(Peter Grant quotes from Raw, 19 May 1989)