That same year Dutch rapper Extince released his first record: Rap Around The Clock.

He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets ( inspired by Halley's Comet ) and million selling hits such as, " Rock Around the Clock ", " See You Later Alligator ", and " Shake Rattle and Roll ".

The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album " Rock Around The Clock " describe Haley's early life and career thus: " Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $ 1 a night.

In 1953, a song called " Rock Around the Clock " was written for Haley.

When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.

" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.

Haley continued to score hits throughout the 1950s such as " See You Later, Alligator " and he starred in the first rock and roll musical movies Rock Around the Clock and Don't Knock the Rock, both in 1956.

* A book on the history of Haley's most famous recording, Rock Around the Clock: The Record That Started the Rock Revolution by Jim Dawson was published in June 2005.

* Jim Dawson, Rock Around the Clock: The Record That Started the Rock Revolution!

* 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release " Rock Around the Clock ", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.

Bill Haley and his Comets performing " Rock Around the Clock " on TV in 1955

In terms of its wide cultural impact across society in the US and elsewhere, Bill Haley's " Rock Around the Clock ", recorded in April 1954 but not a commercial success until the following year, is generally recognized as an important milestone, but it was preceded by many recordings from earlier decades in which elements of rock and roll can be clearly discerned.

Three months earlier, on April 12, 1954, Bill Haley & His Comets recorded " Rock Around the Clock ".

" Rock Around the Clock " was a breakthrough for both the group and for all of rock and roll music.

If everything that came before laid the groundwork, " Rock Around the Clock " introduced the music to a global audience.

At the same time British audiences were beginning to encounter American rock and roll, initially through films including Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ) and Rock Around the Clock ( 1955 ).

Both movies contained the Bill Haley & His Comets hit " Rock Around the Clock ", which first entered the British charts in early 1955 – four months before it reached the US pop charts – topped the British charts later that year and again in 1956, and helped identify rock and roll with teenage delinquency.

* March 20 – Evan Hunter's movie adaptation of the novel Blackboard Jungle premieres in the United States, featuring the famous single, Rock Around the Clock, by Bill Haley and His Comets.

* April-Bill Haley & The Comets record " Rock Around The Clock " thus starting the Rock and Roll craze.

is steeped with references to the 1960s popular music scene ( at one point a list of 200 fictional bands performing at the Walpurgisnacht rock festival is reeled off ( including a handful of actual bands of the 60s ), and there are numerous references to the famous rock and roll song, " Rock Around the Clock "), and has influenced many bands and musicians.

: For the movie named after the song, see Rock Around the Clock ( film ).

For the 1955 record album by Haley, see Rock Around the Clock ( album ).

" Rock Around the Clock " is a 12-bar-blues-based song written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers ( the latter under the pseudonym " Jimmy De Knight ") in 1952.

The original full title of the song was " We're Gonna Rock Around the Clock Tonight !".

This was later shortened to "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock ", though this form is generally only used on releases of the 1954 Bill Haley Decca Records recording ; most other recordings of this song by Haley and others ( including Sonny Dae ) shorten this title further to " Rock Around the Clock ".

Around 1960, O ' Brien came up with a proposed treatment, King Kong vs. Frankenstein, where Kong would fight against a giant version of Frankenstein's monster in San Francisco.

Around 100, 000 Goths were reportedly killed in battle, and Ariaricus, son of the King of the Goths, was captured.

Around 713 BC, the semi-mythical successor of Romulus, King Numa Pompilius, is supposed to have added the months of January and February, allowing the calendar to equal a standard lunar year ( 354 days ).

Around 1119, the French knight Hugues de Payens approached King Baldwin II of Jerusalem with the proposal of creating a monastic order for the protection of these pilgrims.

Around that time, Robert Stillington, the bishop of Bath and Wells, informed Richard that Edward IV's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville had been invalid due to an earlier union by the King with Eleanor Butler, making Edward V and his siblings illegitimate.

Around 1046 BC, Wen's son, King Wu of Zhou, led an army of 45, 000 men and 300 chariots across the Yellow River and defeated the Shang King Di Xin at the Battle of Muye, marking the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty.

" Around 853 AD, Æthelwulf and his son-in-law, Burgred, King of Mercia, defeated Cyngen ap Cadell of Wales and made the Welsh subject to him.

Around nine in the morning of 16 June, King Henry's forward troops, commanded by the Earl of Oxford, encountered the Yorkist army assembled in a single block, on a brow of a hill surrounded on three sides by the River Trent at the village of East Stoke.

Around Lent of 1314, Edward Bruce, brother of the Scottish King, began the siege of Stirling Castle, which was commanded by Sir Philip Mowbray.

Around 1324 Basarab became a vassal of King Charles I of Hungary ( 1308 – 1342 ), but later the king called him ‘ unfaithful ’ on the pretext that Basarab had occupied crown territories.

In 1983, the Police released their last studio album, Synchronicity, which spawned the hit singles " Every Breath You Take ", " Wrapped Around Your Finger ", " King of Pain " and " Synchronicity II ".

Around 1810 Hampshire Terrace, Landport Terrace, King ’ s Terrace, Jubilee Terrace and Bellevue Terrace were built adjacent to the town walls.

Around 1127, Harald went to Norway and declared he was an illegitimate son of the former King Magnus Barefoot, who had visited Ireland just before his death in 1103.

Around 1218 his father arranged his marriage with Princess Anna, daughter of King Ottokar I of Bohemia ; this union with the royal Přemyslid dynasty allowed Henry II to participate actively in international politics.

Around the end of the fifteenth century, King James IV ( ruled 1488 – 1513 ) built Holyroodhouse, by the abbey, for his principal Edinburgh residence, and the castle's role as a royal home subsequently declined.

Around 1206 King John permitted the monks to enclose and clear part of the nearby Perry woods.

Around the time of the birth of their younger son, Richard, the Prince was lured into a war on behalf of King Peter of Castile.

Around 1835 a monument to King George IV was built at the junction of Gray's Inn Road, Pentonville Road and New Road, which later became Euston Road.

Around the same period King Edward III ’ s wife, Queen Philippa is said to have dined on fish caught by Blakeney ’ s fishermen.

Around 1199, King Otto gave three golden crowns made for the three wise men as a present to the church of Cologne: " Otto rex coloniensis curiam celebrans tres coronas de auro capitibus trium magorum imposuit "; MGSS 17, 292.

She followed it up with a version of Nat " King " Cole's " Unforgettable ", and then two highly successful duets in 1960 with Brook Benton, " Baby ( You've Got What It Takes )" ( Number 5 pop, Number 1 R & B ) and " A Rockin ' Good Way ( To Mess Around and Fall in Love ) (# 7 pop, # 1 R & B ).

Around 1989, inspired by Afrika Bambaata, Barnes decided to try his hand at electronic music production, the result of which was the track Not Forgotten, released on the Rhythm King label, and More Than I Know.

Around this time, Belew also met King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp at a Steve Reich concert.