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Bill Haley
William John Clifton Haley was an American rock and roll musician. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and million-selling hits such as "Rock Around the Clock", "See You Later, Alligator", "Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Rocket 88", "Skinny Minnie", and "Razzle Dazzle". Haley has sold over 60 million records worldwi…
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entertainment · American rock and roll music pioneer (1925–1981) · singer · bandleader · conductor · yodeler · composer · actor · guitarist · radio personality · songwriter · recording artist · also Bill Haley, William John Clifton Haley, Haley
Born 6 July 1925 · Died 9 February 1981 · Q202319
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2026· 1 entry
2019· 2 entries
Released album “Five Classic Albums”.
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Richards died at the age of 95, followed by Ambrose's death in 2021 aged 87
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2018· 1 entry
It was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “The 25 Best Songs”.
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2012· 1 entry
After a rule change allowed the induction of backing groups
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2011· 3 entries
Formed a tribute band, performing his father's music and telling the stories behind the songs
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Released album “Les pionniers du rock”.
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Released album “Rock Around the Clock - The Mexican Years”.
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2007· 3 entries
Ex-Comets guitar player Bill Turner opened the Bill Haley Museum for the public
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Released album “Rock Around the Clock (20 Hits)”.
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Released album “From Western Swing to Rock”.
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Bill Haley & Friends, Volume 3: The Story of Rock Around the Clock”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “For Dancers Only”.
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Rock Around The Clock”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Merry Christmas”.
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2000· 1 entry
Released ep “Budweiser”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Al compás del reloj”.
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1997· 4 entries
Released album “3 for 3”.
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Released album “A Profile of Bill Haley”.
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Released album “Back to Back”.
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Released album “Rock ’n’ Roll Legends: The Best of Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins”.
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “American Legends: Bill Haley”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “Let's All Rock Together”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “The Giants of Rock & Roll, Volume 1”.
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Released album “The World of Bill Haley and the Comets - Rock around the Clock”.
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1987).
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Was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “The King of Rock ’n’ Roll”.
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1982· 2 entries
Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings at least 25 years old and with "qualitative or historical significance"
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Haley made a succession of bizarre, mostly monologue late-night phone calls to friends and relatives toward the end of his life in which he was semi-coherent
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1981· 3 entries
Died 1981-02-09.
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Released ep “Class Of ’55”.
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Released album “The History of Rock, Volume Two”.
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1978· 1 entry
Haley expressed interest in having his life story committed to film, but this ultimately never came to fruition
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Golden Country Origins”.
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1960· 1 entry
For his contributions to the music industry
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1958· 1 entry
During the first season and on February 20, 1960, performing "Rock Around the Clock"; "Shake, Rattle and Roll"; and "Tamiami"
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1957· 2 entries
On the prime time show October 28, 1957, and on the regular daytime show on November 27, 1957
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Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe
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1955· 2 entries
On CBS in a broadcast that originated from the Shakespeare Festival Theater in Stratford, Connecticut
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On NBC in an a cappella and lip-synched version
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1954· 1 entry
Haley recorded "Rock Around the Clock"
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1953· 1 entry
Haley's recording of "Crazy Man, Crazy" (co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle, although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001) hit the American charts, peaking at number 12 on Billboard and number
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1952· 1 entry
The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets
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1951· 1 entry
The Saddlemen recorded a cover of the Delta Cats "Rocket 88"
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1947· 1 entry
Haley formed his own group, Four Aces of Western Swing, later renamed to the Saddlemen
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1938· 1 entry
For a Bethel Junior baseball team entertainment event, performing guitar and songs when he was 13 years old
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1929· 1 entry
The four-year-old Haley underwent an inner-ear mastoid operation which accidentally severed an optic nerve, leaving him blind in his left eye for the rest of his life
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-07-06.
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