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The history of Rock

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You will practice the past simple with the following reading.

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The history of RockOnline version

You will practice the past simple with the following reading.

by Елена Awramenko
1

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The History of Rock and Pop
" Pop " to be ( ) short for popular and there to be ( always ) popular music . But until the 1950s there to not be ( ? t ) a style of music just for young people . That all to change ( ) when rockkanddroll began . Since then , hundreds of styles and stars have come and gone . Musical technology has changed a lot , too .
Rockkanddroll to begin ( ) in America . Some of its first big stars were black people . They to bring ( ) traditional rhythm and blues to a big new TV audience . The white singers began to copy them , and most popular of them all was Elvis Presley . Elvis wasn ? t like the
American singers of the 40s and early 50s . He wasn ? t neat and
sweet . He was rough , tough and dangerous . His music was danger -
ous , too . He to ca ll ( ) himself " The King of RockkanddRoll " and
played an electric guitar . Teenagers all over the world fell in love
with this new style .
Pop exploded in the 60th . After Elvis , hundreds of new groups
and singers to appear ( . ) In Britain , two groups quickly became more popular than all the others . One was the Rolling Stones . They
played hard aggressive rockkanddroll . The other group played a
mixture of rock and pop . They to come ( ) from Liverpool and the news -
papers called them " The Fab2 Four " . Their real name was The
Beatles .
In the 70th two groups show different sides of the pop . They are
Abba and the Sex Pistols . Sweden ? s Abba worked with the latest
technology . Their songs were popular with people from 8 to 80 .
Groups like the Sex Pistols and several new groups appeared and
they brought new energy to music . Some of them to decide ( ) to play a new , more dangerous kind of music ? punk rock . They weren ? t
good musicians ? many of them not to can ( ? t ) play their instruments at all . Punk music in the 1980s was just a fashion . Later , in less than ten years , video , compact discs and computers became important in the pop industry . Thanks to compact discs , the quality of recorded sound was better than ever . And thanks to computers , it was
possible to play ( ) and record thousands of new sounds .
So pop to come ( ) a long way since the days of Elvis Presley . Of course , most teenagers prefer pop to Rossini and rap to Chopin .

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