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:''This article is specifically about the singer. For detailed information about his rock and roll group, see Bill Haley & His Comets.''
Bill Haley ({{pronounced|ˈheɪliË) (July 6 1925 – November 9 1981) was one of the first United States|American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the mid-1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song ''Rock Around the Clock''.
Biography
Early life and career
Haley was born William John Clifton Haley (some sources append "Junior" to his name, but his eldest son states that this is erroneous) in Highland Park, Michigan and raised in Bethel Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania|Booth's Corner, Pennsylvania. Many sources (almost universally predating his death in 1981) state that Haley was born in 1927, which is due to Haley knocking two years off his age for publicity purposes in the 1950s. A few recent sources erroneously give a birth year of 1924.
Haley was blinded in his left eye as a child due to a botched operation. According to biographer John Swenson, Haley later adopted his distinctive spit-curl hairstyle to distract attention from his blind eye. The spit-curl caught on as a 50's style signature, although Haley and others had worn the hairstyle much earlier.
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