Biography
The American singer Bill Heyli is among the pioneers of rock and roll. And although the king of the genre is recognized by Elvis Presley, it was hitting his less famous colleague called Rock Around The Clock gave the first impetus to the fact that the incendiary American music gained popularity throughout the planet.Childhood and youth
The musician was born in 1925 in the town of Highland Park, Michigan, and was named William John Clifton Haley. The childhood of celebrities had to for the period of the Great Depression, and therefore, in search of earnings, the family moved to Pennsylvania when the boy was 7 years old. Bill's parents were musicians: Father William deftly was controlled by Banjo and Mandolina, and Mushes Green's mother professionally played by keyboards, having a classic musical education.
In an effort to imitate adults, the boy performed the rooms under the accompaniment of the guitar carved from the cardboard. Looking at the child's addiction, parents gave him a real tool. From that moment on, he began to devote all his free time to music and by 13 years already performed at school events like heating before the basketball team match.
In 1940, taking the guitar and simple belongings, the young man left the house to earn and achieve success on his own. In the first time he had to be not easy, and his school life was working in parks in the open air, endless moving and eating once a day. He acted as part of the DOWN Homers and Four Aces of Western Swing, did not disdain any opportunity to get money and did not give his hands in those days when it was still far from glory.
Personal life
The musician had a stormy personal life, which included three official marriage. The first spouse became Dorothy Crowe, on which a man married in 1946. From the Union, which lasted 6 years, there are two children. The firstborn John carefully kept the memory of his father and even wrote his biography published under the name "Sound and Glory".The second wife of Barbara Joan Chupchak for 8 years of marriage gave birth to her husband five children, but they did not hold the musician in the family, which broke in 1960. The last companion of Hale's life became Martha Velasco, with which Bill lived to the end of his life. The woman presented the spouse of three heirs, whom the "emperor rock and roll" had a total of at least 10. Some siblings, for example, Gina's daughter and the Son Pedro, went in the footsteps of the Father and took up music.
Music
Having worked in random country groups, at leisure Haley experimented with sound. Being a DJ on the radio, the young man noticed an increased interest that the audience of the 1940s began to show to African American music. Then he decided to combine in his work the motives and the rhythms of both races, mixing blues, Bogi-Vuy and Country, which became a step towards creating an original style, which became famous called rock and roll.
In the early 1950s, the guy, together with the Comets team, began to record and execute in the new genre of the song, the main of which became Rock Around The Clock, glorified "Comet" and who had a revolution in the musical world.
The track, written in 1953, became a hit after the release of the film Richard Brooks "School Jungle" in 1955. The cinema "exploded" the rental, and the "rock around the clock" performed by Haley won the charts of America for a year and a half.
The song fell into the Guinness Book of Records as the best hit and gave the artist to the world famous. His concerts were held with the Anchelas in America and Europe, and Bill's albums became bestsellers. At that time, the clips were not yet in a wide move, but the Era of Rock films began, who replenished the filmography of the singer from the mid-1950s. The glory of the American began to fade with the advent of Elvis Presley, who became the recognized King of Rock and Roll. In the 1970s, Heili almost did not speak and was last replenished with discography in 1979.
Death
In the 1970s, the musician admitted to alcohol issues. He tried to fight a problem with varying success, which destroyed him and the life of the family. Martha's wife, the charter to put up with her husband's filings, insisted that the spouse left their common house.Haley began problems with the psyche, because of which he looked drunk, even being sober. The psychiatrist found that Bill's brain produces an excessive amount of adrenaline, and tried to adjust the behavior of a man with drugs.
Despite the treatment, the musician at times experienced the condition of the half-breed, which was accompanied by incoherent monologues. In 1980, the media reported: the American has discovered a brain tumor, which led to the fact that Haley ceased to learn anyone. After the speech in Texas, the performer lost consciousness and was taken to hospital, where the tumor was recognized by the inoperable.
The singer died on February 9, 1981 in his house in Harlingen, Texas, the official cause of the death of 55-year-old Bill was called a heart attack. The body of a man was cremated.
Discography
With the group Bill Haley and Four Aces of Western Swing:
- 1948 - Four Leaf Clover Blues
- 1949 - Tennessee Border
- 1949 - Candy Kisses
With Johnny Clifton and His String Band:
- 1950 - Stand Up and Be Counted
- 1950 - Loveless Blues
With Bill Haley and His Comets Group:
- 1956 - Rock 'N' Roll Stage Show
- 1957 - Rockin 'The Oldies
- 1958 - Rockin 'Around The World
- 1959 - Bill Haley's Chicks
- 1959 - STRICTLY INSTRUMENTAL
- 1960 - Haley's Juke Box
- 1961 - TWIST.
- 1961 - Bikini Twist
- 1963 - Madison.
- 1964 - Surf Surf Surf
- 1971 - Rock Around The Country
- 1973 - Just Rock 'N' Roll Music
- 1978 - GOLDEN COUNTRY ORIGINS
- 1979 - Everyone Can Rock and Roll