It was 70 years ago this month that Sgt. Pepper’s predecessor really taught the band to play. That was when “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and His Comets became the No. 1 song on ...

For a song destined to rock around the centuries, "Rock Around the Clock" — recorded 60 years ago this week — had the humblest and least expectant of beginnings, starting life as a lowly B-side that ...

Released in 1956, Rock Around The Clock was a musical film featuring the talents of Bill Haley & His Comets, and named after the group’s highly successful rock and roll record. Haley and his band were ...

Before there was Elvis Presley ... before there was Chuck Berry ... before there were Jerry Lee Lewis or Fats Domino or Lennon and McCartney, there was a wannabe country musician named Bill Haley. He ...

"Rock Around the Clock." What song better sums up an innocent time of malteds, saddle shoes and sock hops? When a show called "Happy Days" hit the airwaves in January 1974, "Rock Around the Clock" was ...

Ringo Starr said covering Bill Haley & His Comets' classic "Rock Around the Clock" for his new EP, Change the World, was a blast into his past — and more personal than is commonly known. He told a ...

According to a 2021 article from Ultimate Classic Rock, Ringo said he was in the hospital with tuberculosis when he was a teenager. “I had been there a year or so and was doing pretty good,” Ringo ...

Ringo Starr channels some of his earliest rock & roll memories for a lively performance of “Rock Around the Clock” in a new music video for his recent cover of Bill Haley and His Comets’ classic. The ...

Iconic Rock Group Changed the Course of Music 71 Years Ago With Their Biggest Hit originally appeared on Parade. Music history was made on July 9, 1955, thanks in part to a movie about inner-city ...