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When Bill Haley rocked around the clock in a movie featuring His Comets, the Platters and other music stars in 1956, he opened the door for rock music films, and everyone from Elvis to The Beatles and Lady Gaga would follow.
Fred Goodman is a former Rolling Stone magazine staffer who says rock films give us insight into the music scene of the era in which they were produced.
He chronicles 70 years of rock & roll and cinema in his book, Rock on Film: The Movies That Rocked The Big Screen, which he discusses with Jesse Mulligan.
