| Pop & Rock |
You might be wondering at what time precisely rock/pop music began. There's no clear answer toward this. Some might say so as to it started through the advent of rock n roll by means of Bill Haley and the Comets in 1952. Others would say Elvis, even though not the first other than surely the innovative truly global superstar. Yet none of these were really the first. Rock n roll has its roots in blues which has its roots back toward the 19th century by means of black immigrant trying toward escape from their slave driven lives. Fast ahead on the way to the early 20th century in addition toward some of the earliest recordings on 78 began toward appear. Players as of this time such as Bobby Jo and Robert Johnson helped to form the structure of early blues. Robert Johnson had recorded merely thirty songs during his short life as he was banned as of achieving true fame at the same time as alive by being disillusioned by a jealous husband. He died soon before he was being sought on the way to appear at the 'Spirituals to Swing' concert in 1938 by record creator John Hammond. |
As a consequence, his standing merely took off after Hammond released an album of his recordings for Columbia in the early sixties. Later blues exponents like Muddy Waters in addition to Eric Clapton admitted borrowing heavily from these early stalwarts. In the 50's, artists took the basic blues style as well as used electric guitars, drums plus double bass for the first time creating early rock n roll, later known as rockabilly. Stalwarts like Chuck Berry, Buddy Hollie plus Jerry Lee Lewis were the most famous protagonists here. Later Elvis in the US plus to a lesser extent, Cliff Richard (later leading the Shadows) in the UK brought rock n roll to a truly worldwide audience. This cemented the way for the 60's beat era which could be measured the true beginning of pop music as we know it these days, certainly as far as bands were concerned. |
In the 50's in addition to early 60's, it was more often than not lead solo artists by means of just a backing band. By means of the advent of the beat era, bands dominated with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones in addition to the Beach Boys from the US taking the world by storm. Yet so, The Beatles later admitted organism heavily prejudiced by those earlier rock n roll in addition to blues artists. They more often than not played rock n roll in addition to blues covers at their pre-fame Hamburg concerts. In the early 60's. The Beatles on the other hand, were the first band toward productively blend classical music textures by means of rock n roll on the way to form perfectly crafted pop songs. While bands like The Rolling Stones continued with the mainly rock n roll theme. |