Word: haleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London's Waterloo Station a crowd of 4,000 was waiting. They broke through barriers, eluded panting bobbies, swarmed around the waiting automobile of the newly arrived guest from the U.S. Singer-Bandleader Bill Haley regarded the fans through the windows, his cat's eyes rolling heavenward. "Fantabulous," said he, a step or two ahead of his pressagent...
...Haley's reception was indeed fantabulous up and down England, which, far more than the U.S., is now in the grip of the rock 'n' roll frenzy. In fact, rock has lately shown signs of becoming fashionable. Once the identifying oddity of the notorious Teddy Boys, it is now played at coming-out balls and high-toned birthday parties (including the Duke of Kent's, who was 21 last October), in the ballroom of Claridge's and in the drafty Victorian splendor of Balmoral Castle itself, where Queen Elizabeth last summer requested a showing...
...current English tour Rock 'n' Roller Haley has reaped the profits of the craze. Haley and his Comets played to packed houses for four days in London, are now zooming through the industrial cities of the north. At one rocking session Bassist Al Rex was so carried away by the shrieks of 3,000 fans he ripped his pants straddling his big fiddle, played on anyway. Haley's disk of Rock Around the Clock has become the first record to sell a million copies in Great Britain. And even the more dignified of the British papers have...
...following spring saw the ascendancy of Bill Haley and his Comets with their very big "Rock Around the Clock," a song which caused major riots from Boise to Berlin. However the Comets, like most of those achieving popular music stardom, turned out to be somewhat of a flash in the pan, and yielded to such people as Fats Domino and Elvis Presley...
Amid the anti-American shellbursts of the crisis, the London Times's influential Editor Sir William Haley reported to his readers on a recent tour of the U.S.: "It is easy to be superior about American brashness and naivety, to be scornful of material progress as a purpose; to picture a whole continent slowly being moulded to the ideals of Hollywood," he wrote. "These things are only the surface froth that gets whipped about by the winds of publicity. Underneath there is the great solid sea of an American nation as simple in its aspirations, as traditional...