BILL HALEY AND HIS COMETS
The story of Bill Haley is one of music history's most significant. Each event of his early life was a stepping stone in the formation of rock and roll. Born in 1925 in Highland Park, Michigan and raised in the tiny town of Boothwyn, Pennsylvania (some 20 miles from Philadelphia), Bill was a reserved and self-conscious child due to the blindness in his left eye, the result of a routine but poorly-handled operation by a country doctor when he was in an infant. He never mention his "bad eye" to people, but to many it was obvious (as an adult, he was careful to be photographed showing his "good side" whenever possible). During his teenage years, there was a marketplace down the road from where he lived called the Auction Mart. He began playing instrumental ... MORE ››
