The document summarizes popular music genres and artists from the 1930s to present day in each decade. Some key highlights include big band, jazz, and blues being popular in the 1930s led by Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw. In the 1950s, rock and roll emerged as a dominant genre popularized by Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly. The 1960s saw the rise of The Beatles who revolutionized music. Through the decades, technology changed how people listened to and experienced music, shifting from radios to records, cassettes, CDs, and digital downloads.

1. By Joe Robinson

2. 30’s
Big band was a popular genre in the 30’s
So was Jazz and Blues
Glenn Miller’s orchestra was also popular with hits
like “In the mood”.

3. Artie Shaw was a famous clarinet player in the 30’s.
Benny Goodman was another famous clarinet player!
30’s: Instrumental (There was lots of big jazzy instruments like saxophones,
trumpets, drums ECT. This also meant there was rarely any vocals).
If you were poor you wouldn’t hear much music and there was nothing you
could really do. If you were rich then you could buy a load of tickets and go to
all these fancy concerts.

4. 40’s
Lots of music was influenced for WWII. Some songs
were made to help lift the soldiers and the women
and children at home’s spirits.
Jazz, Comedy (such as Gracie Fields and George
Formby ) and Slow were popular.
Vera Lynn was a hit with “We’ll meet again” to
remind people that the soldiers off in war will come
home soon and that you should keep them in mind.
She was also a hit with “The white cliffs of Dover”.
40’s: Comedy (uplifting to lift spirits of soldiers and their
relatives at home).
If you were poor you again wouldn’t hear much music but if
you were rich radios were used to listen to music.

5. 50’s
Blues was still big in the 50’s.
Rock and roll was also big at this time as well as
skiffle music.
It was easy to make a skiffle band. All you needed
was:
A guitar or banjo;
A wash board and some thimbles;
A tea chest bass (made from large boxes used for
shipping tea, a broom handle and a piece of string)

6. Elvis Presley was a very famous musician. His music
involved American style rock and roll and stuck-up hair.
Buddy Holly was also a famous slow rocker and also did a
bit of swing. He also did some rock and roll.
50’s: Rock + roll (after we teamed up with USA in
WWII, we were influenced by their rock and roll music
and we had Cliff Richard. Also, TV's made peoples
appearance more popular because they were in their
homes)
If you were poor then you would hear of the biggest
stars on the streets. If you were rich you would buy

7. 60’s
Motown and Rock and roll were very popular.
The Beatles were incredibly famous and are known as
the band that revolutionised music!!!!!!
Stevie Wonder (blind from birth) knew how to play
the guitar and piano from the age of 10 and started
business at that age!!

8. The who were a very popular band in the 60’s.
The Supremes were very big. Like Stevie Wonder, they were one
of the few bands or artists that were black since racism was still
going on then.
Cliff Richard was named the British equivalent to Elvis Presley
because of the hair and he performed the same kind of genre.
60’s: The Beatles (Elvis did covers but the Beatles wrote every single one of their
songs, moreover, they were a quartet, not a single artist).
If you were rich then you would buy a jukebox but poor
People would still only hear it on the streets.

9. 70’s
Punk was big in the 70’s but rock and roll was still at
large!
Michael Jackson (or the king of pop) was a
sensational hit and still is today with lots of hits like
“Thriller”, “Smooth Criminal” and “Bad”.

10. 1972:The Bee Gee’s were another famous rock band.
1973:ABBA were a popular Swedish band.
The sex pistols was a very popular punk band and reached
thousands of fans!
60’s and 70’s:Elton John was a famous keyboard player and
did his fair share of pop.
Rich people would have vinyl's and poor would still
only hear it on the streets.

11. 80’s
The 80’s was the decade of pop and lots of bands were
normally making pop music. Finally the long, long,
LONG years of rock and roll had ended.
1982:Adam and the ants were a very popular 80’s
band and made it to number 1 for FIVE WEEKS with
their most popular single “Stand and deliver”.

12. Run DMC were also another famous 80’s band and had
quite a lot of number 1’s. Their most popular hit is “Walk
this way”.
Wham are another example of a great 80’s band. One of
their most famous songs are “Wake me up before you go
go”.
Rich people would have cassettes but poor
People would only have listened to it on the streets
AGAIN only in restaurants and in cars.

13. 90’s
Pop was still big. Radiohead were a big pop band and
still are today.
Oasis were another great band which performed pop.

14. Damon Albarn’s group Blur were a great group and became
famous with the songs “Parklife”, “Song 2” and “Boys and girls”.
 When Albarn left Blur he started a computerized band with
Jamie Hewlett called Gorillaz. Gorillaz are probably my
favourite band and won peoples hearts with songs like “Clint
Eastwood”, “19-2000”, “5/4” and “Tomorrow comes today”.
70’s to 90’s: Computers changed the way music sounded. This
influenced people to buy computers and have them in their
homes. Rich people would buy cds and poor people would, well,
take a guess

15. Now
R/B, Pop and rap music are popular in our time. The
most popular hit at the moment is Psy and his only
hit “Gangnam style”. Talk about a good start. That's
his only song!
Naughties: Simon Cowell (the man who
killed music!!!) made boy bands, Britain's
got talent, X-factor. Rich would download
songs onto their computers, I-pods ECT but
poor would…