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Interprète: Bill Haley & His Comets
Titre: Crazy, Man, Crazy
Année: 1953
Bill Haley ( - ) est l'un des premiers musiciens américains blancs de rock and roll.
Après le rock and roll afro-américain qui bat son plein de 1946 environ
à 1954, il est le premier artiste blanc à réellement avoir du succès
dans ce style avec son groupe Bill Haley & His Comets et leur
chanson Rock Around the Clock.
Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and the Comets and Bill Haley's Comets
(and variations thereof), was the earliest group of white musicians to
bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest of
the world. From late 1954 to late 1956, the group placed nine singles in
the Top 20, one of those a number one and three more in the Top Ten.
Bandleader Bill Haley had previously been a country music performer; after recording a country and western-styled version of "Rocket 88", a rhythm and blues song, he changed musical direction to a new sound which came to be called rock and roll.
Although several members of the Comets became famous, Bill Haley remained the star. With his spit curl
and the band's matching plaid dinner jackets and energetic stage
behavior, many fans consider them to be as revolutionary in their time
as the Beatles or the Rolling Stones were a decade later.
Following Haley's death, no fewer than seven different groups have
existed under the Comets name, all claiming (with varying degrees of
authority) to be the official continuation of Haley's group. As of the
end of 2014, four such groups were still performing in the United States
and internationally.
