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Rock Around the Clock: The Record That Started the Rock Revolution!
Music detective Jim Dawson reveals the real story of rock 'n' roll's beginnings like it's never been told before. It's all here, from the song's murky origins and Bill Haley's early struggles as a professional musician, to the record's explosion through motion pictures like The Blackboard Jungle and Haley's resulting success and eventual burnout. Dawson makes the case that...more
Paperback, 207 pages
Published
May 10th 2005
by Backbeat Books
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Fun book about the definitive rock'n'roll record by the author of 45 RPM (another wonderful piece of record-industry history) and co-author of WHAT WAS THE FIRST ROCK'N'ROLL RECORD (another good one). Lots of information about Bill Haley (though this is not a biography of him), the various Comets, the song's origins, other similarly named and themed songs that preceded it, and its significance, including the truth about the BLACKBOARD JUNGLE cinema "riots." Ian Whitcomb, the British p...more
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