Garbage

The offical track listing as follows: Bad Boyfriend, Run Baby Run, Right Between the Eyes, Why Do You Love Me, Bleed Like Me, It's All Over But The Crying, Boys Wanna Fight, Sex is Not The Enemy, Metal Heart, Why Don't You Come Over, and Happy Home. Two additional groups also claim the name Bill Haley's Comets and extensively tour in the United States: one featuring Haley's 1965-68 drummer John "Bam-Bam" Lane, the other run by his 1959-69 bass player, Al Rappa. Garbage's next album, Bleed Like Me, will be released on April 11th 2005 (April 12th in North America). The Original Comets, who performed with Haley in 1954-1955, are still touring the world as of 2004, packing showrooms in the United States and Europe. Garbage followed the album up with a successful tour of the US and Europe. Several Comets reunions were attempted in the 1980s. Still, the album managed to reach #6 in the UK and #13 in the US, though it quickly slid down the charts. More than 100 musicians performed with Bill Haley & His Comets between 1952 and Haley's death in 1981, many becoming fan favorites along the way.

Hence, no songs charted in the US, and the four singles released charted in the 20s in the UK. But further concerts and recording sessions were cancelled -- including a potential reunion with past members of the Comets -- and he returned to his home in Harlingen, Texas where he died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack on February 9, 1981. While it represented the band's most eclectic and mature sound to date, it contained no standout commercial singles. The tour was critically lambasted, but surviving recordings of a show in Johannesburg show Haley in good spirits and good voice. After again retreating into the studio for several years, Garbage released beautifulgarbage in 2001. In 1980, Bill Haley and His Comets toured South Africa but Haley's health was failing and it was reported that he had a brain tumor. In 1999, they performed the theme song to the James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough. It was also the last time he performed in Europe and the last time most fans saw him perform "Rock Around the Clock.".

Their second album Version 2.0 topped the charts in the UK and hit #13 in the US. In November 1979, Haley and the Comets performed for Queen Elizabeth II, a moment Haley considered the proudest of his career. "Push It" was released and became a summer hit in 1998, reaching #9 in the UK and #52 in the US. An almost completely new group of musicians, mostly British, were assembled to perform as The Comets, and Haley appeared on many TV shows as well as the movie Blue Suede Shoes, filmed at one of his London concerts. Garbage spent two years working on their follow-up album, during which time Shirley Manson became well-known by the technologically savvy by being one of the first artists to maintain a blog. In 1979, Haley was persuaded to return to performing with the offer of a lucrative contract to tour Europe. It went top 20 in the US and top 10 in the United Kingdom. The Comets continued to tour on their own.

They released their debut album, Garbage, later that year. In early 1977 he announced his retirement and settled down at his home in Mexico. Garbage released a string of increasingly-successful singles over the year 1995, culminating in the massive hit "Stupid Girl". Haley continued to tour for the next year with a replacement musician, but confessed that his heart was no longer in it. The fact that Garbage is composed of three music producers is made obvious by the high production quality, with many layers and a "wall of sound" production aesthetic. In February 1976, Haley's saxophone player and best friend, Rudy Pompilli, died of cancer after a 20-year career with the Comets. Garbage utilizes samples, electronic loops, grungy guitars, and various other effects to produce haunting and melodic tracks, made distinctive by Scottish singer Shirley Manson's sultry vocals. In 1974, Haley's original Decca recording of "Rock Around the Clock" hit the American sales charts once again thanks to its use in American Graffiti and Happy Days.

This made the band particularly popular with disaffected youths. 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. Garbage's angry, emotional lyrics contrasted with their catchy, pop alternative rock music. 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. Another anecdotal origin for their name, was that Butch Vig contributed a remix to Nine Inch Nails' album Fixed, which Trent Reznor labeled "garbage". The band's popularly never waned in Europe, and the group signed a lucrative deal with Sonet Records of Sweden in 1968 that resulted in a new version of "Rock Around the Clock" hitting the European charts that year. The band may have derived its name from their insertion of seemingly unusable noise in their songs. By the late 1960s, Haley and the Comets were considered an oldies act, and toured with great success with Richard Nader's Rock and Roll Revival tours through the early 1970s.

Mackenzie and Angelfish), they asked her to join the band. In 1966, the Comets (without Bill Haley) cut a Mexican album with Big Joe Turner, who had always been an idol to Haley; no joint performance of "Shake, Rattle and Roll" was recorded, however. After the group saw Shirley Manson on MTV (from her careers with Goodbye Mr. The band had continued success in Mexico and Latin America over the next few years, selling many recordings of Spanish and Spanish flavored material and simulated live performances (overdubbed audience over studio recordings). They hosted a TV series entitled Orfeon a Go-Go and appeared in several movies. Vig, the producer of such influential albums as Nirvana's Nevermind and the Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream decided he wanted to play in a band and asked fellow producers Marker and Erikson to join him. In 1961-1962, Bill Haley y sus cometas (as the band was known in Latin America) scored an unexpected hit with "The Spanish Twist" and later had what was, for a time, the biggest selling single in Mexican history with "Florida Twist." Although Chubby Checker and Hank Ballard were credited with starting the Twist craze in America, in Mexico and Latin America, Bill Haley and His Comets were proclaimed the Kings of the Twist. Garbage is an international rock group formed in 1993 by Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Steve Marker, and Duke Erikson. The group continued to be a top concert draw in Europe throughout the 1960s, including a successful stint at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany where they played around the same time the Beatles performed there.

2002 "Shut Your Mouth" #20 UK. For commercial success in the 1960s, the band had to turn to venues outside the United States. 2002 "Breaking Up the Girl" #27 UK. In 1964 there was an abortive attempt to return to Decca with a low-selling recoring of Jim Lowe's "The Green Door" backed by "Yeah, She's Evil!" a song that would later be recorded by Elvis Presley for the soundtrack of his movie, Girl Happy. 2002 "Cherry Lips" #22 UK. Guest Star Records released an album of Haley recordings under the name Scott Gregory, possibly due to the fact Haley was having major problems with the Internal Revenue Service at the time. 2001 "Androgyny" #24 UK. Sees Combo in order to trick American radio stations into playing music by the so-called "has been" group.

1999 "The World is Not Enough" #11 UK. APT Records even went so far as to release a single under the name B.H. 1999 "You Look So Fine" #19 UK. Between 1961 and 1969, Haley and His Comets recorded unsuccessful singles for a number of small labels in America such as Newtown Records, Guest Star Records, APT Records, as well as for United Artists Records. 1999 "When I Grow Up" #9 UK. That year, Haley left Decca Records for the new Warner Brothers label, where his band recorded a series of critically acclaimed, but commercially unsuccessful songs, many in the country and western style. 1998 "Special" #15 UK, #52 US. In 1960, the band enjoyed its last new hit in the United States with an instrumental version of "Skokiaan".