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Several bands patterning themselves after the Comets are also active in Europe, including Bill Haley's New Comets in Germany. [35] In 2011, Haley's son Bill Jr. formed the band Bill Haley Jr. and the Comets, and created a Rock 'n' Roll History Show. [36] On July 12, 2019, drummer Dick Richards died at age 95 in Ocean City, New Jersey. [37]
Bill Haley Jr., Haley's second son and first with Joan Barbara "Cuppy" Haley-Hahn, publishes a regional business magazine. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] In 2011, he formed a tribute band, performing his father's music and telling the stories behind the songs.
In 2011, Bill Haley's daughter, Gina Haley, will start working with the New Comets on the remembrance of her father's work, touring with them for the first time internationally. The band's most important event remains November 5, 1989, when the original 1954 Comets went back on stage in Bristol, England, inviting the New Comets to perform together.
Members of the rock and roll band Bill Haley & His Comets. Pages in category "Bill Haley & His Comets members" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The John Lane version of Bill Haley's Comets recorded a live album in the early 2000s, along with a Christmas single. Al Rappa's version of Bill Haley's Comets have recorded tracks with Joey Welz, including the 2011 album Rock and Roll Survivors released on the Canadian-American label. The 1954–55 Comets (a.k.a.
Grande and steel guitarist Billy Williamson were both members of the country band, Southern Swingsters before convincing Bill Haley to start a new group, the Saddlemen in 1949. [ 2 ] Grande was one of the original business partners who formed the Saddlemen (the other partners being Bill Haley himself (d. 1981) and steel guitarist Billy ...
Bill Haley first heard Kay and his band at a gig at an Italian social club in West Chester, Pennsylvania.After a brief audition in 1960, during which band members heard him play the guitar solo to the song "Rock Around the Clock," Kay was asked by Bill Haley to join his band, the Comets, when he was only nineteen years old.
The band was created by former members of Bill Haley & His Comets who had quit that group in a salary dispute. The name of the group was derived from the first letters of the first names of the founding members: Joey Ambrose (real name Joey d'Ambrosio) ( saxophone ), Dick Boccelli (under the name "Dick Richards") ( vocals and drums ), and ...