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David Morton

Rock around the Toon - when American rock'n'roll pioneer Bill Haley played in Newcastle

'One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock...'

It's the intro to one of the most famous songs in popular music and, 65 years ago, American star Bill Haley, the creator of Rock Around The Clock, was performing in Newcastle.

By 1957, post-war Britain was on the up, and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan that year would tell people they'd "never had it so good".

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