Bill Hayley and the Comets - Rock Around The Clock (Album Cover Art) - Framed Print - 16"H x 16"W

A 16"H x 16"W" framed print of Rock Around The Clock Album Cover Art

Bill Haley & His Comets were an American rock and roll band, founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known as Bill Haley and the Comets and Bill Haley's Comets, was the earliest group of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of 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.

Many fans consider them to be as revolutionary in their time as the Beatles or the Rolling Stones were a decade later.