Did you know? '(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock' became the first rock 'n' roll song to reach Number 1 on the Billboard charts this week in 1955! Turn it up and rock on! | Bill Haley

On This Day in Rock and Roll History – June 7, 1954 The fuse was lit, and the world was about to shake, rattle, and roll… It was 70 years ago today that Bill Haley and His Comets stepped into Decca Records’ New York studio and cut their version of Shake, Rattle and Roll — a bold, backbeat-driven cover of Big Joe Turner’s R&B smash that would soon ignite jukeboxes and sock hops across America. At the time, Big Joe Turner's original was tearing up the R&B charts, but Haley’s version gave the song