Franny Beecher, Guitarist for Bill Haley & the Comets, Dies at 92 A rock n' roll pioneer has passed away. Franny Beecher, lead guitarist for Bill Haley & the Comets from 1954 to 1962 ...

"Rock Around the Clock" was a B side by Bill Haley and his Comets — a struggling country-western band that had recently made the transition to R&B. It was not the first "rock 'n' roll" record ...

The decade that gave us the UK's first singles chart, as well as Al Martino, Bill Haley, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. 1952 – the first Singles Chart is published in the New Music Express ...