How was born pop

The Americans invented rock, but the British appropriated the term encompassed dozens of styles and responding to a goal: to create the perfect song that infected the listener and endure over the years.

The Beatles were the first and largest representatives of pop music: rock & roll took the rhythm and blues and other derivatives of black music and compressed in an explosive music and hum, done for young people to identify with her . His message takes over the world to unsuspected limits.

Before 1962, England had groups and soloists such as Shadows, Tornadoes, Cliff Richard and Billy Fury, in the shadow of Americans as Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly or Ray Charles.

With the Beatles, the British aventajaron his first on the other side of the pond, and maintained their status in the sixties.

Merseybeat born in Liverpool, after reaching the swinging London, the Stones, psychedelia, glam and punk, all phenomena patented by the perfidious Albion.

In the eighties, pop was easy and soft because of synthesizers, productions verbose and the preponderance of the image on the artistic content. From Bowie spent a Culture Club, The Jam to Duran Duran. Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna, subjects Reagan, became the pop icons of the decade.

In'89, Manchester becomes fashionable, but the matter does not transcend borders. To make matters worse, the real alternative, rock noisy and dirty, comes from the United States. Then appear first Pixies, Sonic Youth, and others.

As the pride of the British pop claiming his inheritance, the English music press plays an important role, capable of unknown bands that are besieged by record executives. The grouping "Suede", was the first of these flashes of something that began so-called new wave, and then Brit pop.

The family tree of British pop

Reviewing the evolution of pop over time, is to trace the perfect chorus that gave the British pop genre a unique personality.

These groups are essential to brands and time, and above all, a string of unforgettable songs from its inception until the 80's, which had its greatest impetus.

1962-70: Here are the "Golden Years". Born pop. Songs short, energetic and chorus accurate, this marks a trend that until today, is one of the most comprehensive. The groups that characterized this period were:
- The Beatles - From Liverpool changed music forever. Always advanced to the competition, were dissolved the right time and became a myth.
- Rolling Stones - The Beatles put his face kind, they instead were the evil side! His music is rough sweeteners resisted by producers. His anthem: "Satisfaction".
- Pink Floyd - were born as a group devoted to pop hallucinogen. After expelling Syd Barrett for their excesses Lysergic, tended to a lower risk of marketability.

1971-76: The sexual revolution paves the way for the glam rock. The songs are ambiguous and with an aesthetic that plays to misunderstanding. Its representatives:
- David Bowie - Inspired by Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, singer-songwriter moves from a troubadour of glam.
- T.Rex - Marc Bolan was his boss. It offered pure and simple across effervescent pop songs that were directly in memory.
- Roxy Music - They were a sophisticated group of intellectuals who formed the most artistic version of this genre.

1977-78: Here are the basics again. In England was shaken dozens of banda that marked a turning point with an absolute rebellion. Bands:
- The Jam - Séller Trio led by Paul preached that the revival of aesthetics and philosophy mod. His subjects have roots of soul but were using force and punk.
- Buzzcocks - They are perfect songs, a miracle of realizing just three minutes. Banda totally punk.
- The Police - were never punks but won the phenomenon to make themselves known. They propose a pop white-based reggae.

1979-80: In this era pop wears mourning. Comes afterpunk characterized by its sound and its dark Gothic look. Bands:
- The Cure - tormented and claustrophobic.
- Joy Division - Rock intensely sad, which became legendary when its leader was hanged in 1980.
- Echo & The Bunnymen - Liverpool is experiencing a revival of its music scene. They become their top representatives.

1981-84: This is where synthesizers replace the guitars. Bands:
- Human League - introduced in the techno pop charts with themes of a lifetime, made with electronic keyboards.
- Depeche Mode - conquer the market with its simple lyrics and contagious.
- Soft Cell - The coldness techno front of a passionate voice.

1985-88 - Stage where pop becomes independent. Surf softening techno pop. It was desperately seeking heroes credible. Bands:
- The Smiths - emerged in the early eighties, with a pop with guitars that contrasted with the pomp of the new romantics.
- New Order - The remaining members of Joy Division are expected to cross between serious and pop rhythms discotequeros.
- Culture Club - One of the milestones of the decade pop songs of reggae with their honey.

The stars that have popularized the salsa in the world

Baptized in New York and breastfeeded by Puerto Ricans and Cuban, the salsa is peppered music of life.
Here we offer you more names than they popularized it in the world.

Eddie Palmieri: "the king of the white ones and the quarter notes
You call your orchestra the band of the happy feet, you destroy the pianos to blows, they call you "Rompeteclas" and your great desire is to insert you kettledrums to Bach. This from New York one, revolutionized the sauce taking a risk with the most experimental sonority, merging the "riffs" of the Cuban trumpet with the duets of jazzy trombone. Your salsa is not the habitual one that destroy the feet of the accomplished dancers; him his is musical imperiled vanguard and without complex.

The Great One Warps of Puerto Rico: "the mulattos of the flavor"
Under the direction of Rafael Ithier, this Puerto Rican orchestra takes 30 years playing with sure cadence about the essence of the they are and the salsa. For many, his is the best show in the planet. Fear as "The death", "Love me", "Not there is bed pa' so much people" and "The party of Pilito", they are Latin pure locira from Puerto Rico.

Van Van: "the witty of Cuba
Band with more than 25 years destroying bodies to make dance. Juan Formell captains the band that have given topics like "Shepherdess has guararé", "Witty" or "Titimanía." They maintain the Cuban orchestra's structure, but without trumpets. Your secret: to respect the tradition and to align it with tendencies from New York.

Willie Columbus: "armed with a trombone"
You were born in Bronx, you were raised in the street and you had the good taste of changing the trumpet for the trombone. You also had the luck to trip with Héctor Lavoe and Rubén Blades. Not it has pasted strong among the great public, but the puristic salseros they save your disks like a relic. Your letters are songs to the life, street histories of the neighborhood, peppered by the rewind force of your trombone and the scream of the Latin town.

NG the Band: "the one that send"
Been founded at the end of the eighty by José Luis Cortés that had been with Van Van and Irakere, you show off of having the metals of the terror and your letters are chronic street of Havana. They broke musical molds and starting from your essence it was born Havanan Chranga and The Physician of the Salsa.

Famous that made popular the Salsa worldwide

This Latin genus, "the Salsa", big musicians that have known how to transmit and to infect the passion that come off of this Caribbean music have given. There are some of them here.

Celia Cruz: "the guarachera of the world"
When Celia was born in Havana, you broke the mold and you burst the flavor. Your years they were never noted in your face, less in your physique and spirit. You always knew how to put to enjoy to whole generations to the they are of your password: "Azzzzzzúcar!" With more than 800 recorded topics, you began with the big teachers of your island, you were the voice of Sound Matancera.

Rubén Blades: "the poet of the salsa"
This Panamanian one that in 1994 you showed up to the presidency of your country, you are an atypical character in the universe of the sauce. In the seventy, you slapped to this musical genus with some topics where the letters, chronic urban duras with Quixotic characters, occupied a preferential place. "Plastic", "Pedro Knife" or "Pablo Town" are good examples of it. Blades searched to play the human sensibility and you have flirted with the literature.

Oscar D'Leon: "the biggest sonero"
With Ismael's licence Rivera, the biggest sonero is Venezuelan Oscar D'Leon. Your capacity to invent, with the music and the word, in the development of the they are montuno, you are overwhelming. To hear you is an exhausting exercise. With him, the musical expression reaches your maximum perfection. Your melodious voice, with your rhythmic inimitable and attractive fraseo, accompanied by a flowing and perverse improvisation, wraps up perfectly to your orchestra's rhythm. Ambitious, demanding, joker, vacilón, intelligent and I list as the hunger, you are a gentleman above the scenario.

Héctor Lavoe: "the voice"
The singer of the singers. You died in 1993 and still today one cries your absence. You played the neighborhood boy's story that arrive to rich and you don't assimilate your success, and the drugs caught it. Your crystalline shade allowed you to sing everything. you tried to commit suicide in 1988 and you were, practically invalid. Your legacy is unbeatable, and your memory, unforgettable.

Tito Bridge: "the genius of the kettledrum"
Alive legend of the Latin music, hit your kettledrums during all the times of glory of the Afro-Cuban sound. In your music, they converge the jazz explosively, the Afro-Cuban (they are, rumba, the chachachá, guaguancó) purest styles, the bolero, the polka, the foxtrot and the rhythm of which are considered the alive king: the mambo.