POP is short for popular and there has always been popular music. But until the 1950s there wasnt a style of music just for young people. That all changed when rock and roll began. Since then, hundreds of styles and stars have come and gone. Musical technology has changed a lot too. Here, we look at the highlights of rock and pops forty-year history.
The 50s
Rock and roll began in America. Some of its first big stars were black for example Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Little Richard. They brought traditional rhythm and blues to a big new TV audience. Then, white singers began to copy them. One of the first was Bill Haley. He and his band, The Comets, recorded an early rock and roll classic Rock Around the Clock. There were other white rockers, too, like Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly. But the most popular of them all was Elvis Aaron Presley.
Elvis wasnt like the American singers of the 40s and early 50s. He wasnt neat, sweet and safe. He was rough, tough and dangerous. His music was dangerous, too. He called himself The King of Rock and Roll and played an electric guitar. Teenagers all over the world fell in love with this new style. They bought millions of his records. Suddenly the younger generation didnt just have money, cars and television they had a hero, too.
The 60s
Pop exploded in the 60s. After Elvis, hundreds of new groups and singers appeared. In Britain, two groups quickly became more popular than all the others. One was the Rolling Stones. They played hard, aggressive rock and roll. The other group played a mixture of rock and pop. They came from Liverpool and the newspapers called them The Fab Four. Their real name was The Beatles.
Together, The Beatles and the Stones led a British invasion of the American charts. Thanks to them, pop became transatlantic.
But what about America itself during the 60s? What was happening there? Well, in Detroit, producer Berry Gordy started a new record label Motown. Stars on the Motown label included Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder and the Jackson Five (including the youngest of the Jackson brothers, Michael).
Singers / songwriters were also popular in America during the 60s. There were stars who mixed folk music with rock and pop styles. Bob Dylan was the most famous, but there were lots of others too like Joan Baez, James Taylor and Simon and Garfunkel.
Finally, there was hippy rock. This was the time of flower-power and protests against the Vietnam War. It was also the time when rock festivals became important. The biggest, in 1969 was on a farm in New York State called Woodstock.
The 70s
Two groups show the different sides of 70s pop Abba and The Sex Pistols. Swedens Abba worked with the latest technology. Their songs were popular with people from 8 to 80. They were rich. They made videos. They were, in fact, superstar entertainers. And they werent alone. There were a lot of other 70s superstars, too Elton John, David Bowie, Rod Stewart, Queen. By the mid-70s, music was a billion-dollar industry and artists like these controlled it.
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But not everybody was happy with superstar pop. For many people it didnt take enough risks. Some of them decided to play a new, more dangerous kind of music punk rock.
The punk revolution began in small clubs. One of them was the The 100 Club in Londons Oxford Street. Thats where bands like The Sex Pistols used to appear in the late 70s. Everything about their clothes and music was different. They didnt look happy and rich. They looked poor and angry. They didnt smile they spat. They werent good musicians many of them couldnt play their instruments at all.
Groups like The Sex Pistols brought new energy to music. Suddenly it belonged to the kids again. But not for long. Punk started as a revolution... by 1980 it was a fashion.
The 80s
The most important musical event of the 80s was Live Aid. The man who organised it was Bob Geldof. He started to raise money for the starving people of Ethiopia in 1984. First, there was the Band Aid record Do They Know Its Christmas?. Then he decided to organize a huge rock concert with many of the worlds top stars. That dream came true on 13 July 1985. For 16 hours, 1.5 billion people watched the best of British and American music live from London and Philadelphia (Live Aids stars included Sting, Sade, U2, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Madonna, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, The Beach Boys and Paul McCartney). The concert raised over $ 100 million. It showed that top musicians and their fans could change the world.
Something else changed in the 80s too musical technology. In less than two years video, compact discs and computers all became important in the pop industry.
Thanks to video, every single suddenly had its own three-minute film.
Thanks to compact discs, the quality of recorded sound was better than ever.
Thanks to computers it was possible to play and record thousands of new sounds.
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