Bill Haley
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Report by Tony Brown, Melody Maker, 9 February 1957
AT 2.55PM on Tuesday, the organised and highly publicised reception for Bill Haley looked like being a flop. A few couples, exhorted by precariously perched ...
Report and Interview by 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 ...
Bill Haley & the Comets, Duane Eddy: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 11 May 1968
The Great Leap Backwards! ...
Bill Haley: A Piece of Gold in my Pocket
Profile by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1976
CLOSE TO his 50th birthday, Bill Haley seems to be in excellent repair. ...
Bill Haley: The Guardian Of Rock 'N' Roll
Profile and Interview by Martin Hawkins, Melody Maker, 7 April 1979
MARCH 1979, and rock king Bill Haley's in town, almost a quarter of a century since he recorded 'Rock Around The Clock', and 22 years ...
Bill Haley & His Comets: The Decca Years And More
Review by Jeff Tamarkin, Goldmine, 19 April 1991
TO A CONTEMPORARY listener already mystified by '50s rock 'n' roll. Bill Haley might be the greatest mystery of all. Elvis's success is easy to ...
Bill Haley: Indisputably The First
Retrospective by Colin Escott, Goldmine, 19 April 1991
It was, as writer Nick Tosches observed, "one of the first instances of a white boy really getting down to the art of hep." ...
Jim Dawson: Rock Around the Clock - The Record that Started the Rock Revolution
Book Review by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, June 2005
DID HOLLYWOOD create rock 'n' roll? That sounds like a strange, ridiculous and even offensive question to anyone who likes rock and all its musical ...
Bill Haley and His Comets: 'Rock Around The Clock'
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, backonthetracks.com, July 2007
12 April 1954: At Decca Records' Pythian Temple Studio, New York City, Bill Haley and His Comets record 'Rock Around The Clock' and 'Thirteen Women'. ...
Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, Summer 2013
BILL HALEY was an unlikely pioneer of the rock'n'roll revolution. Even in his pomp he looked like your dad. ...
Bill Haley: 'Rock Around the Clock' – the world's first rock anthem
Retrospective by Bob Stanley, The Guardian, 22 May 2014
The 1950s made stars of Elvis, Little Richard and Fats Domino, but Bill Haley & His Comets are rock'n'roll's forgotten pioneers. ...
Bill Haley Jnr & Peter Benjaminson: Crazy Man Crazy – The Bill Haley Story
Book Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, April 2019
IT WAS MY misfortune to see Bill Haley on stage for the first and only time in November 1979, about 15 months before he died, ...
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