What Happened Today In Music, July 6th 1925 was born Bill Haley (William John Clifton Haley), pioneering American rock and roll musician. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets. His recordings have sold over 60 million records worldwide. Haley died on February 9, 1981, at the age of 55. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B7xr_EjbzE #TodayInMusic