The Resume

(July 6, 1925-February 9, 1981)
Lead vocalist of Bill Haley and the Comets
Recorded the first Rock 'n Roll song 'Rock Around the Clock' (1954)
Recorded 'Shake Rattle and Roll'

Why he might be annoying:

He dropped out of school at 14 years old, in the eighth grade (1940).
He was a horrible driver.
He wanted to be a country singer.

Why he might not be annoying:

He was credited for creating Rock and Roll (1954).
He inspired a genre of music that is still popular 50 years later.

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs [Performers] (Ranked: 50)
• Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire'
• Blue Eyed Soul Artists
• Carnegie Hall Concerts
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [July] (Ranked: 7061925)
• Ed Sullivan Show Guests
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [H-L]
• I Covered Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin Around the Christmas Tree’
• I Covered 'Mack the Knife'
• I Covered 'Me and Bobby McGee'
• I Covered 'Stagger Lee'
• I Did Not Graduate High School [F-I]
• I Died in 1981 (Ranked: 56)
• I Have a Brain Tumor [Menegioma]
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[F-I]
• I Sing About Knifes
• Look at Me, I'm a Man in Shades
• Look at My Guitar
• MCA's 20th Century Master Artists
• Midnight Special Performers [A-K]
• My Band, My Name
• My Music was Lost in the 2008 Universal Studios Fire
• My Name is U.S. Currency
• My Song was Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Ranked: 1982)
• Profiles 1751-2000 (Ranked: 1954)
• Q Magazine's 100 Songs that Changed the World [Artists] (Ranked: 12)
• Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Members (Ranked: 1987)
• Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time (Ranked: 30)
• Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time - 101-200 [Performers] (Ranked: 158)
• Satirized on Rocky and Bullwinkle
• Songs of the Century [2001] (Ranked: 12)
• The Chipmunks Covered My Song
• They Might Be Giants References
• VH-1's 100 Greatest Shocking Moments in Rock 'n Roll (Ranked: 42)
• WatchMojo’s Top 10 Ed Sullivan Show Musical Performances [2017] (Ranked: 7)
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19810209)
• Weather Names

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 10 Votes: 10.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 34 Votes: 11.76% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 8 Votes: 12.50% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 16 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 23 Votes: 52.17% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 17 Votes: 35.29% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 19 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 26 Votes: 65.38% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 26 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 52 Votes: 34.62% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 94 Votes: 52.13% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 166 Votes: 42.17% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 279 Votes: 42.65% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 349 Votes: 41.26% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 1044 Votes: 43.58% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 1913 Votes: 43.13% Annoying
In 2001, Out of 6386 Votes: 36.78% Annoying