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Creem Profiles

GEORGE THOROGOOD

(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)

July 1, 1985

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.

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