Disc of the day
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
Magnificent late-'50s singles round-up that keeps on giving.
This year's Midas-like tunesmith has done it all, if you can call selling 120 million albums, being a fencing scholar, writing The Monkees' I'm A Believer and singing with Barbra Streisand in the school choir doing it all. Which we would, were it not for the other stuff, including authorship of the jaw-dropping Beautiful Noise and a virile comeback in the shape of 05's 12 Songs and this year's Home Before Dark, both produced by the legend-rehabilitation-service that is Rick Rubin.