Editing Bill Haley & His Comets (section)

==Revival==
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By the late 1960s, Haley and the Comets were considered an "oldies" act. The band's popularity never waned in Europe. The group signed a lucrative deal with [[Sonet Records]] of Sweden in 1968 and recorded a new version of "Rock Around the Clock", which hit the European charts that year. The band recorded a mixture of live and studio albums for the label over the next decade.

In the United States in 1969, promoter Richard Nader launched a series of [[rock and roll revival]] concert tours featuring artists of the 1950s and 1960s. At one of the first of these shows, held at the [[Felt Forum]] at [[Madison Square Garden]] in New York City, Haley received an eight-and-a-half-minute standing ovation following his performance, as Nader related in his recorded introduction to Haley's live album ''Bill Haley Scrapbook'', which was recorded a few weeks later at the [[The Bitter End|Bitter End]] club in New York.

The band appeared in several concert films in the early 1970s, including ''[[The London Rock and Roll Show]]'' (for which Haley's 1960–66 lead guitarist, John Kay, briefly rejoined the band) and ''[[Let the Good Times Roll (film)|Let the Good Times Roll]]''. After 1974, tax and management problems prevented Haley from performing in the United States, so he performed in Europe almost exclusively, though he also toured South America in 1975. The band was also kept busy in the studio, recording numerous albums for Sonet and other labels in the 1970s, several with a [[country music]] flavor. In 1974, Haley's original Decca recording of "Rock Around the Clock" hit the American sales charts once again, thanks to its use in the film ''[[American Graffiti]]'' and for two years, on the television program ''[[Happy Days]]''.<ref name="auto1"/>