Creem Profiles
GEORGE THOROGOOD
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
HOME: No particular place to go.
AGE: Dixie fried.
PROFESSION: A bad to the bone gear jammer.
HOBBIES: Drinking alone, practicing the hand jive, moving it on over, studying old Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and ancient blues records, watching old Maverick reruns.
LAST BOOK READ: You Can’t Judge A Book By Its Cover by Bo Diddley.
LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Facing a crawling king snake—and surviving.
QUOTE: He’s usually howling for his darling.
PROFILE: Rising out of Delaware, George & his Destroyers got a reputation as one of the country’s best “bar bands” playing their brand of hard rocking rhythm & blues along the east coast. Soon their audience grew from a cult following to a super-cult following, they moved from Rounder to a major record label, opened shows for the Stones, and remain one of the best “bar bands” playing anywhere on any given night.