Crazy, Man, Crazy: The Bill Haley Story - Hardcover

The biography of the first rock n roll star, written by his son. The story of a country and western singer who became an overnight success with `Rock Around the Clock', mobbed wherever he went for two years (`Thousands of fans formed a crush at the station to greet the group in a raucous display the press dubbed "the Second Battle of Waterloo."'), accused of inciting riots and then completely eclipsed by a singer called Elvis with sex appeal. Haley's messy private life resulted in distancing himself from his kids before his big 1970s revival. Despite this reversal of his fortunes he had drunk himself to death by 1981.

Bill Haley Jr is a writer, reporter, editor and magazine publisher. After writing a term paper about his famous father as an undergrad at Temple University, he continued to conduct interviews and do research as part of a life-long journey of self-discovery aimed at coming to terms with his fractured relationship with Bill Sr. He's also the founder of the band Bill Haley Jr and the Comets, which performs his father's music, and shares stories about him, on concert stages and venues throughout the US and around the world. Peter Benjaminson is the author or co-author of nine other books, including The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard; Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar; and Super Freak: The Life of Rick James, all published by Chicago Review Press. Peter is also the author of The Story of Motown, published by Grove Press in 1979 and by Rare Bird Books in 2018.