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April 12, 2004
50 years of "Rock Around the Clock" Bill Haley recorded "Rock Around the Clock" 50 years ago today, on April 12, 1954. By one way of looking at it, you could peg this as the first day of the rock era.
Some consider this the first rock and roll record, though of course there are a good many possibile contenders for the title. Coming along after the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, I've always thought the song was weak. Associating it with the watered down vision of the era from that whack Happy Days show doesn't make it seem any hipper.
On the other hand, you can't deny that it was a big hit, and somehow had a fairly unprecedented impact when it was featured in the movie Blackboard Jungle, with riots and vandalism in the theaters.
