Презентация на тему Юнит 2 do you know rock and pop history

short for “popular” and there has always been popular

music. But until the 1950s there wasn’t 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 pop’s fifty-year history.

Some of it’s 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.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Elvis Aaron Presley

Elvis, hundreds of new groups and singers appeared. In

Britain, two groups quickly became more popular than all the others. One was 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. Thanks to them pop became transatlantic.

of the ‘70s. One of them is Abba. Sweden’s

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 weren’t alone. There were a lot of other ‘70s superstars, too- Elton John, David and, of course, Queen.

‘80s was “Live Aid”. The man who organized it

was Bob Geldof. He started to raise money for starving people of Ethiopia in 1984. Then he decided to organize a huge rock concert with many of the world’s 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 Aid’s Stars included Sting, Sade, U2, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Madonna, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, The Beach Boys and Paul McCartney). They were the stars of the ‘80s.

music were very popular in the’90s. Boy bands like

Backstreet Boys and The Spice Girls made their way to the stage.

Singers like Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopes became popular.

Today the new idols have appeared and many people followed them.

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Oh, I believe in yesterday

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
oh, yesterday came suddenly

Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
oh, I believe in yesterday

Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away
oh, I believe in yesterday, Mm

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