Diddley

With Bo Diddley wailing on electric guitar in the background, John McEnroe asks, “Bo knows tennis?” followed by U.S.

The commercial ends with Jackson doing his own wailing on guitar, only to have the real guitar legend tell him jokingly, “Bo, you don’t know Diddley.”

They even went on to enjoy commercial success in West Germany, where their cover version of Bo Diddley’s “Diddley Daddy” scored a top-five hit.

He’s penned several children’s books and a novella called “The Legend of Diddley Squatt,” loosely inspired by the life of the late comedian Richard Pryor, who grew up in a brothel.

I had interviewed Henry and thought he was going to play Jack Diddley, but he refused.