Bill Haley News

In January 1959, a St. Paul teenager named Jim Pewter interviewed Buddy Holly and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson when they were in town to play the Promenade Ballroom.

It was a swinging jazz number that was danceable and part of a new music trend at the time -- rock `n' roll.

On Saturday, you'll be able to step back in time, to the 1950s, as The New Brunswick Country Showcase presents a '50s rock 'n' roll show.

Rock music has been a big part of the movies since Blackboard Jungle made Bill Haley a legend in 1955, and although the marriage of the two mediums hasn't always been a happy one , it's also produced some cinematic classics.

Hometown: North London, U.K. Album: Kitty, Daisy & Lewis For Fans Of: Carl Perkins, Bill Haley, Jason & The Scorchers As her fellow students at the Acland Burghley School in North London were looking for part-time jobs this summer, 16-year-old Kitty Durham already had hers lined up: opening for Coldplay's U.S. tour.

Don't let the title of Ryan Edwardson's Canuck Rock: A History Of Canadian Popular Music fool you.

Longtime Great Falls musician Bill Rapagnani has teamed up with former Bill Haley guitarist Johnny Kay to record an album that revisits the roots of rock and roll.

Longtime Great Falls musician Bill Rapagnani has teamed up with former Bill Haley guitarist Johnny Kay to record an album that revisits the roots of rock and roll.

By JACK CLARK jackclark@mvn.net Being a member of the Class of 1975 at Mt. Vernon Township High School, I realize that I spent my formative years witnessing a renaissance of what was to become known as rock music.

The music of legends such as Bill Haley, Eddie Cochran, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry will be celebrated on Sunday, August 2, along with tributes to Brenda Lee and Connie Francis.

9, 1981, Harlingen, Texas Main American singer and songwriter considered by many to be the father of rock and roll thanks to his 1955 hit "Rock Around the Clock." If not the father of rock and roll, Haley is certainly one of its fathers.

July 6 1925 Rock `n' roll pioneer Bill Haley is born in Highland Park, a section of Detroit.