Bill Haley
July 6, 1925 (99 years old) in Highland Park, Michigan, USA
William John Clifton Haley (July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) 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 worldwide. In 1987, he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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- 2021 ·The Sparks Brothersas Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2013 ·My Father And The Man In Blackas Self (archive footage)
- 2004 ·Eddie Cochran & Friends: C'mon Everybodyas Self (archive footage)
- 1999 ·Hollywood Rocks 'n' Rolls in the '50sas Self (archive footage)
- 1983 ·When the Music's Overas Self (archive footage)
- 1980 ·Blue Suede Shoesas Self
- 1973 ·The London Rock and Roll Showas Self
- 1961 ·Besito a papáas
- 1958 ·Music of Alwaysas
- 1957 ·American Bandstandas Self
- 1956 ·Don't Knock The Rockas Himself
- 1956 ·Rock Around the Clockas Himself
- 1948 ·The Ed Sullivan Showas Self