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Rock and roll fans compete in the Bill Haley dance contest at Belle Vue, in February 1957

Beautiful songs are from dirty old town; Nostalgia looks back on the remarkable life of Salford singer and songwriter Ewan MacColl and the music of Manchester in the 1950s

Yes, compared with the previous post war 'Make Do and Mend' generation of teenagers who idolised the completely un-hip Bill Haley with his oh so ridiculous kiss curl, the Sixties were genuinely something else, yet this decade actually began with a clash of bin lids rather than a 'Ban the Bomb' march.

KEN ROGERS journeys into Liverpool's past

about two years ago I wrote in this column my fond memories of the appearance there of Bill Haley and his Comets in 1956 or 1957.

Move Odeon to Beamish; Letters

IN HIS splendid The Roots of Rock from Cardiff to Mississippi and Back (published by Seren at PS9.99), my literary friend Peter Finch recalls the time Bill Haley and his Comets came to Cardiff.

Rocking round clock with Bill at sell-out Capitol gigs; Cardiff Remembered ...with Brian Lee

AMERICAN band Bill Haley And The Comets had young couples dancing to songs like Rock Around The Clock and Shake, Rattle And Roll in the 1950s.

Everybody dance now; Do you head for the dance floor at the first strains of the Birdie Song ORAGADOO?As the new series of Strictly Come Dancing gets under way, Marion McMullen looks at some of the dance crazes to have swept Britain

1954: Bill Haley recorded Rock Around The |Clock, the first record to sell a million in Britain alone.

ON THIS DAY

The original show, which attracted audiences of up to 28 million, ran from 1955 until 1967, and featured The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Hope and Bill Haley.

Comic set for Funday Night at Palladium

Musician played lead guitar for Bill Haley and the Comets; reunited with.

Franny Beecher

Cliff Richard, the Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, Lulu, Tommy Cooper, Morecambe and Wise, Dusty Springfield, Bill Haley and The Searchers are among the big names.

There from the start; Sax man Lew was a real Fiesta fixture

I recall the Rainbow coffee bar in Shaftmoor Lane where we used to meet, with the jukebox playing Bill Haley and his Comets, Pat Boone, Frankie Lane, the Platters and many more.

Dancing to Bill Haley; nostalgia