Bill Haley & His Comets

Biography & Overview

William John Clifton Haley (July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was an American rock and roll musician who played a significant role in popularizing the genre in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets. He achieved international success with million-selling singles such as "Rock Around the Clock", "See You Later, Alligator", "Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Rocket 88", "Skinny Minnie", and "Razzle Dazzle". Over the course of his career, Haley sold more than 60 million records worldwide and was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Haley was born in Highland Park, Michigan. At the age of four, a mastoid operation severed an optic nerve, leaving him blind in his left eye.