The iconic tune helped usher in a new era of music and became a record-breaking hit that generations of fans still remember ...

Danny Gatton said his playing “knocked him on his ass” and Brian Setzer calls it “the best solo of all time”: Danny Cedrone could have been rock’n’roll’s first guitar hero – but he didn’t live to see ...

"Rock Around the Clock" was the first time rock 'n' roll had ever been featured in a major Hollywood soundtrack. Glenn Ford was the tough teacher who has to keep the hoods in line. Sidney Poitier, ...

On this day 72 years ago, the first ever rock song to hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts - and it started a revolution.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hear tracks by the Strokes, beabadoobee, Normani and more. The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas onstage in 2011. (Sadly, we don’t have the specific time.)Credit...Chad Batka for The New York Times By ...

On April 12 in 1954, a now-iconic song that would help launch rock and roll into the mainstream was recorded during the final minutes of a rushed studio session. That song was "Rock Around the Clock" ...