The white thirties Bill Haley was an unexpected rock and roll hero in 1956. Yet he knew the first global rock and rollhit score with catchy Rock Around The Clock. Other well-known songs were Shake, Rattle & Roll See You Later Alligator. Between 1954 and 1958, Bill Haley and his band The Comets were one of the most controversial groups in the world. Partly due to the fact that he wrote his own songs
… do not, Haley did not grow to a pop icon. After the rock and roll craze had blown over, hit the singer into oblivion and to drink. He died in 1981 of a brain tumor.more