Rock & Pop From 1950

1950s

Rock and pop really took off in the 50s. Born from R&B (rhythm & blues), the black popular music of the late forties and early fifties. The music being produced by the likes of Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry was aimed at teenagers, being heavily marketed and invested in at studios. This was when music began to become big business and arguably more of a commodity.
Read more here: Rolling Stone

1960s

Was when the UK’s music scene exploded with some of its greatest artists and most well known artists.

1970s

During the 70s a raft of other genres had evolved across the Anglo-American music scene. The 70s also heard the dawn of synthesizers in popular music.

1980s

The radical development of digital technology occurred elsewhere, in the new devices for sampling and manipulating sound, used by dance music engineers who had already been exploring the rhythmic and sonic possibilities of electronic instruments and blurring the distinctions between live and recorded music. Over the next decade the uses of digital equipment pioneered on the dance scene fed into all forms of rock music making.

1990s

A large aspect of 90s music was that so much of it was recycled from prior decades, resurfaced as samples in hip-hop or dance music.