Rock Around the Clock is a fluffy novelty hit, not a top song of the decade

Are we still rocking around the clock in 2026? Or has Bill Haley’s classic hit finally wound down and ground to a halt in the digital age?
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Rock around the clock': How a then-unknown country singer helped coin the term 'rock’n’roll' 70 years ago

Before there was Elvis Presley ... before there was Chuck Berry ... before there were Jerry Lee Lewis or Fats Domino or Lennon and McCartney, there was a wannabe country musician named Bill Haley. He ...