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A date on the first tour of Britain by an American rock and roll act, at the Hippodrome in Belfast on Friday 1 March 1957 to Saturday 2 March 1957. Bill Haley and His Comets had crossed on the Queen Elizabeth and docked at Southampton on 5 February 1957, where a crowd reported at around five thousand was waiting; the reception at Waterloo station in London was written up in the press as the Second Battle of Waterloo. The tour ran from 6 February to 10 March, opening and closing at the Dominion Theatre on Tottenham Court Road, and took in twenty-three engagements across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.