He charges Doodles, who slips past him and goes into a chuckling, high-stepping diddley-bop.

This time last year, the name Macy Gray meant diddley-squat to the great record-buying public.

Apart from maybe keeping the rain out, diddley squat.

It's a diddley-eye date with destiny as the Dancing With The Stars semi-final doubles as St Patrick's Day-themed celebration of Irish music.

Do they call The Corrs, who have the requisite diddley-aye quotient, and who have already appeared on an episode of Beverly Hills 90210?

As a child Diddley lived in Chicago and made violins after school.

Steve channels the likes of John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley and Son House.

A new Bo Diddley record goes under the surgical knife.

Then there was the power in people's voices, like Muddy, John Lee, Bo Diddley.

That was an incredible lineup: the Everly Brothers, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Mickie Most.

Like his music, the tone of Diddley's funeral was celebratory.

Without Bo Diddley, we'd be missing an entire segment of the soundtrack of our lives.

Diddley died of heart failure on Monday, June 2.

But there was more to Diddley than the beat.

Imagine the Stones without the influence of Diddley's swagger, and you can see his true impact.

So we're exploring all kinds of ways to take (Diddley) into the 21st century.