POP ROCK

Farah Nasuha Johari

 Early days
Origins:

Pop rock genre come from the early 1950. Singer such Elvis Presley
amd Chuck Berry plays this genre of music accompanied by guitar
and bass guitar.
This music was popular and catchy to the public yet had the
original hints of rock which has changed ever so much over the
years.
 Development
In the 1960's, rock and roll became
pop rock and then split onto sub
catagories.

• The Beatles provided mellow rock

sounds capitalised on the pop culture.

• Artists such as Jimi hendrix also

came onto the scene and mixed up
the sounds we were hearing.
Jimi Hendrix
Through the decades...
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1960's is when music really took off. This new wave of
music gave people inspiration and lead to different
genres all deriving from the 1950's rockability genre that
6 the epopel grew up with.

0 • The Rolling Stones, the who and Jimi Hendrix lead to

the heavier rock genres.
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• 60's also saw hippies and punks starting to develp
s which both enjoyed bands of the pop rock genre. This
was experienced at Woodstock in 1969.
The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

As time moved on so did the pop rock genre although now it had became
that umbrella term over many bands and subs genres.
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mainstream rock went into soft and hard rock. 9
Soft rock involving Fleetwood mac an Rod Stewart and hard rock being
Led Zeppelin( my favourite ) and the punk scene which had by now
developed into massive scene with the Ramones, the clash andd the sex
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pistols leading the way. but this era lasted no more that 5 years before
punk died. 0
soft rock was the kind of background which continiued on into pop rock
music. Queen was one of the example of soft rock band. This bands was
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stylish and began involving their weird and extraordinary rock star look
that comes with being a star in this musc scene.
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 Fleetwood Mac

Led Zeppelin
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8 At this era, disco dominated the major music scene with the
pop rock taking a back seat. rock began to distance itself apart
0 more with glam rock, metal and alternative being different
scenes people followed.
' pop rock was alternative at this point. 1980's was a lull in pop
s rock. it had been swolled up and spat out.
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THE RETURNS
micheal Jackson started exploring into the rock genre with billie 9
jean. many major bands were reknown for their rock culture and
style which became so popular for the people of the time. 9
the band from America which made the new scene of pop rock as 0
we know today with bands being male fronted with the iconistic
style and somewhat childish nature of partying. '
some of them that were well known were Blink 182 and Foo
Fighters. this style echoed across the US and UK. it was a mix of
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punk rhythms with a mix of catchy pop culture. even groups
could mix grunge with pop to make post grunge under the pop
Micheal Jackson

Blink 182
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0 In the 2010 thw rock world seems to be consintantly stable
with all genres having major well known artists. Indie and rock
' and alternative rock have had a huge surge with the hipster
culture which began in early years of the era.

s Many succesful bands continue to thrive well in the charts. Pop

eock is sstill there yet teh artists within the genre are now
experimenting and following suit of the new succesful bands
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