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In 1955 bandleader Bill Haley and His Comets recorded “Rock Around the Clock”. This was the Comets number one hit for eight weeks, and it sold 22 million copies worldwide. Haley adapted black R&B song streamlined rock and roll beat, to the music him and his band played. Another song that was a successful for the group was “Crazy, Man, Crazy”; it was the first rock and roll record to make Billboard Pop Chart. The group was owned a regular radio show at a Chester, Pennsylvania, a raido station. In 1952 they released “Rock This Joint”, it sold 75,000 copies. In 1953 the group changed its name to Bill and His Comets. “Rock Around the Clock” became an anthem for rebellious fifties youth. The same song, latter became a move. Haley and his Comets have sold 60 million records worldwide. Haley died of a heart attack in 1981. (DeCurtis, Anthony, The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. 3rd ed. Random Hse1992. Rowley, Kay. Concerts. Crestwood, 1992. Music. 1992)

on’t know that to your mind, but when I hear that word I think of the people that sing rock and roll today not back in the day when it first got stared. I thought that is would be something interesting to do for a report. One question that I have had on my mind is how did all the people get to like it? What motivated the people to like the songs? Also the types of song that songwriter wrote? Along with the types of things they wrote about? In this report I will be talking to you about some of the famous rock and roll people, and how they influenced the people along with the music industry. I think that the music back then is the same reason that people lesion to it today. I will be showing what caused the teenagers and artist to turn music. What do you think caused teenagers and artist to turn to drugs?

Chuck berry was a singer, composer, and a guitarist. He was known as one of the first most important performers of rock and roll music. His real name was Charles Edward Anderson Berry. He was born on October 18, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri. When chuck first started to be interested with the guitar was during his teenage years. Berry first hit single was “Maybellence”, which was also the first to have three number ones in separate Billboard. The categories were rhythm and blues, pop, country and western. What made him so popular were his outstanding performances, the people liked his complex guitar runs and energetic dancing. One of his guitar runs was called “duck step” it was a combination of crouching a

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