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Old Jan 5 2008, 5:45 PM
ThePianoMan121 ThePianoMan121 is offline

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Originally Posted by robinjessome View Post
Perhaps the roots of Pop can be traced back then, but Pop as a genre only came to be in the 80's onward (developed out of disco). Pop is a sound, a sound that was simply not technically possible in the 50s...
Totally erroneous, again. Pop certainly didn't emerge out of disco, though disco influenced. The pop sounds that are popular today may have begun then, but pop singles from artists like the Beatles were all over the airwaves far before then.