Bill Haley, Berlin and the infamous 1958 riot at a Comets gig

Bill Haley, Berlin and the infamous 1958 riot at a Comets gig

Rock ‘n’ roll may not seem to be the beacon of rebellion that it once was, but for a time, the sound of a guitar signalled to paranoid parents and authority figures everywhere that trouble was brewing among their teenagers. The supposed ‘trouble’ was not always extreme; some defiance against authority, surely, mixed with the shocking embrace of a new sound defined by guitars and drums that provoked people to dance and shout beyond comprehension.…