Bill Haley's Accomplishments

Bill Haley was born on July 6, 1925 in Highland Park, Michigan. His birth name is William John Clifton Haley. He died at the age 55 on February 9, 1981 in Harlingen, Texas because of a heart attack. However, in his life time he was a singer/song writer. When he was growing up, his family liked country music and he learned to play guitar at a very young age. Then as he grew up and persuade music he sang and played rock and roll, country, and rockabilly. Bill Haley was one of the first people to create rock and roll. In the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Haley says, “‘We put country and western together with rhythm and blues, and that was rock. The first three years were ours, all ours, till [Elvis] Presley came along.’” Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, accessed 30 April 2018, rockhall.com/inductees/bill-haley. In 1953, Haley's band, Bill Haley and His Comets made their first hit "Crazy Man Crazy." New York Times, accessed 30

At a young age he had an ear operation, but, the doctors accidentally severed the optic nerve in his left eye. Making it so that eye looked slightly off in another direction. So, Haley learned to style his hair in a big curl on the right side to distract for his left eye. He was also very shy. In the Texas Monthly it states, "Onstage, Haley wore a constant smile, but offstage he reverted to being the insecure kid with one good eye; he was increasingly uncomfortable with the adulation, withdrawing to his hotel room after shows and drinking cups of coffee and chain-smoking." Texas Monthly, accessed 30 April 2018, texasmonthly.com/articles/falling-comet/. In addition to all this, he had three wives and ten kids in all. He had two children with his first wife, Dorothy Crowe; five kids with his second wife Barbara Joan Cupchak, also known as Cuppy; and finally three kids with his last wife Martha Velasco. With all this said, Bill Haley was not the most faithful or perfect