Compléter The history of RockVersion en ligne You will practice the past simple with the following reading. par Елена Awramenko 1 began been brought to has come has came wasn called couldn appeared decided changed play is 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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