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Pop Music History Timeline

Date	Event	Description
1956	Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.	With so many hit songs, he was referred to as 'the king of rock n roll'. He is one of the best-selling solo artist in the history of popular music.
1957 Jul 6	John Lennon meets Paul McCartney	In March 1957 John Lennon formed a skiffle group called The Quarrymen. McCartney met Lennon on 6 July 1957, and agreed to join the group a few days later.
1958 Feb 6	Paul McCartney invited George Harrison to watch the Quarry Men	According to George Harrison, the first time he saw the Quarry Men was at the Wilson Hall, opposite the bus depot in Garston, Liverpool.
1958 Aug 29	Michael Jackson is Born	Michael Joseph Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana (an industrial suburb of Chicago, Illinois) to a working-class family on August 29, 1958. The son of Joseph Walter "Joe" and Katherine Esther, he was the seventh of nine children.
1960 May 10	The Quarry Men become The Silver Beats	The well-known British impresario Larry Parnes was looking for musicians and backing acts for his "stars", including Billy Fury and others, whom they would accompany on a tour of Northern England and Scotland. Parnes listened to each Liverpool group.
1961	American country singer 'Patsy Cline' becomes a mainstream pop music hit.	Cline was the first female vocalist who adapted to the change and became a successful pop singer. "Walkin' after Midnight" (1957), "I Fall to Pieces" (1961), "Crazy" (1961), and "She's Got You" (1962) are some of her hits.
1968 Oct 17	Ziggy Marley is born	David Nesta "Ziggy" Marley (born October 17, 1968, Trenchtown, Jamaica) is a four-time Grammy-winning Jamaican musician and leader of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody makers
1972	Michael Jackson's first solo hit "Ben" reaches No. 1	"Ben" is a number-one hit song recorded by the teenager Michael Jackson for the Motown label in 1972. The song, theme of a 1972 film of the same name, spent one week at the top of the U.S. pop chart. It also reached number-one on the Australian pop chart, spending eight weeks at the top spot.
1973	Karen Marley is born	Karen Marley, second daughter of Bob Marley, was born in England in 1973 but grew up in Jamaica.
1974	Michael Jackson introduces "The Robot"	In 1974, during a performance on "Soul Train," Jackson introduced a dance called the robot, made of moves that were mimicked on dance floors across the country.
1975-83	Popularity of disco and hip-hop lead to the popularity of pop.	The movie Saturday Night Fever was released. 'Disco music' gained popularity. 'Hip-hop' emerged as a blend of rock, jazz, and soul with African drumming in the New York City. Nonstop music videos were released by MTV. Cats began its journey. The debut album of Madona "Holiday" becomes a hit.
1983	Red Hot Chili Peppers are formed	Red Hot Chili Peppers (originally Tony Flow and the Majestic Masters of Mayhem) were formed by Fairfax High School alumni Anthony Kiedis, Hillel Slovak, Jack Irons and Michael "Flea" Balzary in 1983.
1984 Jan 27	Michael Jackson burns hair during Pepsi commercial	While filming a Pepsi Cola commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, he suffered second degree burns to his scalp after pyrotechnics accidentally set his hair on fire. Happening in front of a full house of fans during a simulated concert, the incident was the subject of heavy media scrutiny and elicited an outpouring of sympathy.
1985	Michael Jackson releases "Thriller"	The video becomes a classic
1985	Britney Spears emerges as a star of the music world.	At age 8, she made her musical television debut on Star Search. In 1999, about 1,319,193 copies of "...Baby One More Time" were sold in the first week after release.
1989 Dec 13	Taylor Allison Swift Is Born	Swift was born in the city of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Scott, a stock broker, and Andrea Swift, a homemaker.
1990s	Various famous groups made pop music more popular	Grunge rock was formed in Seattle, Backstreet Boys and Blackstreet were formed, the movie "Titanic" and the song "My Heart Will Go On," became popular.
1992 Sep	Radiohead releases their first single, "Creep"	"Creep" is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, written by vocalist Thom Yorke.
1993 Feb 10	Oprah Winfrey interviews Michael Jackson	Jackson gave a 90-minute interview with Oprah Winfrey in February 1993, his first television interview since 1979. He grimaced when speaking of his childhood abuse at the hands of his father, he confessed that he had missed out on much of his childhood years, admitting that he often cried from loneliness.
1994	Warped Tour first conceived	The Warped Tour was created in 1994 by Kevin Lyman, who got the idea while working on skateboarding shows such as the Vision Skate Escape and Holiday Havoc which included music with skateboarding contests.
1995 Sep 12	Red Hot Chili Peppers release One Hot Minute	Dave Navarro first appeared with the band at Woodstock '94, where they wore enormous light bulb costumes attached precariously to chrome metallic suits, making it near-impossible for them to play their instruments.
May 1997- Jan 1998	Radiohead releases "Paranoid Android" single, "OK Computer", "Karma Police" Single, "No Surprises/Running from Demon EP", and "No Surprises".	No Surprises/Running From Demons is an EP by Radiohead. Released on 10 December 1997, the EP was aimed at the Japanese market in order to promote the band's Japan tour of January 1998
2001 Jun 1	Keane releases second single "Wolf at the Door"	"Wolf at the Door" is a song performed and composed by English alternative rock band Keane and happened to be their second single release ever, originally intended only as a promo item with only fifty copies made, becoming the rarest Keane item in existence.
2002	Increased impact of television shows	Kelly Clarkson becomes the first American Idol.
2003	Marshall Mathers, known as Eminem, rapper of the evergreen "The Slim Shady LP" gained popularity.	Eminem was a radio and video superstar. In 2003, he won an Oscar for the song "Lose Yourself," from "8 Mile". He was the first rapper to win an Oscar.
2006	Mat Kearney Releases "All I Need" Single	"All I Need" was Kearney's first single and was featured on Grey's Anatomy and began to chart on iTunes top 100 downloaded songs. It peaked at #94 on the Billboard Pop 100.
2009 June 25	Death of Michael Jackson	American singer Michael Jackson died after he suffered cardiac arrest at his home in the Holmby Hills neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. He was treated by paramedics at his home, but was pronounced dead at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

instruments

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VOCALS

Vocals are the leading force of pop music. Music is often structured to fit around the lyrics written by the vocalist. Types of vocals can include singing, screaming, rapping or spoken word. Pop music without vocals is called instrumental pop music. Notable pop vocalists include Mariah Carey, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber and Madonna.

DRUMS

Drums in pop music can be played by a drummer on a drum kit or they can be produced electronically by a computer. Computer drums have a more digital sound that can feel robotic and less natural than drums played by a person. Drums are essential to establish the beat and keep the song moving forward.

GUITARS

Guitars are common in pop music. Types of guitars used in this type of music include bass guitars, acoustic guitars and electric guitars. A guitar is a stringed instrument. Bass guitars generally have four strings. Electric and acoustic guitars usually have six or 12 strings. Electric guitars, including electric bass guitars, must be used with a guitar cable and powered amplifier to output an audible level of sound 

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CHARACTERISTICS

♥if we are talking about pop music, music which is produced for the lowest common denominator, and to appeal to the broadest possible audience, a strict format is usually stuck to.
    - An aim of appealing to a general audience, rather than to a particular sub-culture or ideology.
    - An emphasis on craftsmanship rather than formal "artistic" qualities. 
    - An emphasis on recording, production, and technology, over live performance. 
    - A tendency to reflect existing trends rather than progressive developments. 
    - Much pop music is intended to encourage dancing, or it uses dance-oriented beats or rhythms. 
♥Pop art (like that of Andy Warhol) generally consists of the following:
   -Bright, quirky colors that stand out, sometimes neon.
   -Ordinary objects being turned into art.
   -Four paintings of the same picture using four different hues.
   -Focusing on the contours, shapes, and basics of a picture

MOST IMPORTANT ARTIST

later we will prove to be to them some of the important mas artists of the kind pop and will tell him his biography.