Wild Bill Haley
Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, 9 November 1967
THERE HE WAS, Wild Bill Haley, fifteen years older but not showing a day of it, his spit curl firmly in place on the forehead of his chubby face, standing on the tiny, red-fringed stage of the Cellar, a funky little club two blocks off the main drag in Reno.
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