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 ...

Music history was made on July 9, 1955, thanks in part to a movie about inner-city school drama, the freedom of a new record deal, and a song with the now immortal opening lines: “One, two, three ...

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 ...