Popular Music - Timeline

1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Vocal Jazz Ella Fitzgerald Perry Como Frank Sinatra Paul Anka
LPs & Singles for sale Rock 'n' Roll 1955 -Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & The Comets Buddy Holly
First Fender Guitar Dixieland / Trad Jazz Revival - Kenny Ball
Cool Jazz 1949-Mid 1970s John Coltrane Miles Davis Dizzy Gillespie
Musical & Movie Soundtracks Doris Day Oklahoma King & I Frank Sinatra
Big Band Jazz Duke Ellington Count Basie Stan Kenton
Elvis Presley Hound Dog King Creole
Be-bop Coleman Hawkins Charlie "Bird" Parker Dies Dizzy Gillespie
Country Slim Whitman Conway Twitty

Pop Cliff Richard Adam Faith

Skiffle/Folk Lonnie Donnegan

Carl Perkins Howlin' Wolf

AS Music Miles Davis Four on "Blue Haze" Album Honey Don't I'm Leavin' You
Duke Ellington 1952 Slim Whitman 1954 Lonnie Donnegan 1956 Howlin' Wolf 1959 Elvis 1959
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1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
Tommy Steele Tony Bennett Audio Cassette Invented Woodstock
Gerry Lee-Lewis Psychedelic Rock Hendrix Cream Moody Blues
Acker Bilk, Chris Barber Beatles She Loves You Help! Revolver Sgt.Pepper White Album Abbey Road
Dave Brubeck Take Five
South Pacific West Side Story James Bond Sound Of Music
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie Avant-Garde
Lonesome Tonight Viva Las Vegas Guitar Man Suspicious Minds
MOR Mantovani Black & White Minstrels
Jim Reeves- Best Selling Artist in UK Jim Reeves Dies Kenny Rogers
Beach Boys Pet Sounds
Shadows Roy Orbison The Hollies Kinks Sonny & Cher Monkees Bee-Gees
Soul Motown Supremes Marvin Gaye Diana Ross Stevie Wonder Four Tops
Rolling Stones Brian Jones Dies 1969
Reggae Desmond Dekker
Bob Dylan Simon & Garfunkel
The Who

Rock Fleetwood
David Bowie
A Day in the Life - Beatles
Waterloo Sunset - Kinks
Motown - The Crystals - 1962 The Beatles 1963 The Kinks 1967 Rolling Stones 1964 Stevie Wonder 1968
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1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
Barbra Streisand
Pink Floyd Jazz Rock & Fusion Weather Report Spirogyra
Split Apr 1970 Prog Rock Genesis-ELP Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon Yes Camel War Of The Worlds
Mike Oldfield-Tubular Bells Punk Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Jam New Wave
Paint Your Wagon Evita Grease
Free Jazz Miles Davis
American Trilogy Green Green Grass Elvis Dies
Carpenters Roger Whitaker Barry Manilow
Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man Dolly Parton Glenn Campbell
Surf's Up The Beach Boys Love You
Rod Stewart Osmonds Bay City Rollers Electric Light Orchestra
The Jacksons Drifters Stylistics Temptations Three Degrees Tavares Michael Jackson
Sticky Fingers Ronnie Wood Joins Black And Blue
Jimmy Cliff Bob Marley Johnny Nash Exodus
Steeleye Span Queen Bohemian Rhapsody We Are The Champions
Black Sabbath Status Quo Roxy Music Disco Donna Summer Saturday Night Fever
Glam Rock Slade Sweet Gary Glitter Mud T.Rex Marc Bolan Dies
Led Zeppelin Deep Purple Thin LizzyAlice Cooper Meat Loaf
Elton John Paul McCartney ABBA Metal Motorhead AC/DC
Tupelo Honey
You Can Get It If You Really Want It Howlin' Wolf Dies
Desmond Dekker 1970 Van Morrison 1971 Queen 1975 Sex Pistols 1977 Blondie 1978-1982
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1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
Audio CD Invented
Shakatak Pat Metheney
Rick Wakeman Peter Gabriel Marillion
New Romantics ABC Duran Duran Tears For Fears U2 Spandau Ballet Simple Minds Simply Red Pet Shop Boys
Cats Aspects Of Love

John Lennon Murdered The Smiths AOR Bryan Adams Springsteen Michael Bolton

Brian Wilson goes into rehab LIVE AID Goo Goo Dolls
Phil Collins Prince Style Council Tina Turner Madonna George Michael Whitney Houston
Thriller Album Lionel Richie Billy Ocean Luther Vandross
Emotional Rescue Dirty Work
UB40 Bob Marley Dies Madness The Specials
Flash Gordon Radio Gaga Kind Of Magic
Bee-Gees
Dance House Garage New Order REM
Van Halen Europe Motley Crue Guns n Roses
Def Leppard Iron Maiden Metallica Alice In Chains Bruce Dickinson goes Solo
Madonna

Phil Collins 1981 Michael Jackson 1982 Van Halen 1984 Madonna 1983+ Motley Crue 1988
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1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
My Way 9th Re-release Ella Fitzgerald Dies Frank Sinatra Dies
Brand New Heavies James Taylor Quartet

Morrissey New Punk Greenday

Joseph Titanic

Pavarotti Three Tenors Jane McDonald

Garth Brooks Shania Twain
Kurt Cobain Dies
Kylie Take That Right Said Fred East 17 Celine Dion Spice Girls Steps All Saints Britney Spears

Voodoo Lounge No Security

Innuendo Freddie Dies

Britpop Suede Oasis Blur Pulp Radiohead Supergrass Coldplay
Happy Mondays Stone Roses Shamen Shaggy Stereophonics
Nirvana Jamiroquai Lenny Kravitz
System Of A Down Black Sabbath Reform

Kinks & Beatles influence Britpop Don't look back in Anger Carl Perkins dies
Happy Mondays 1992 Oasis 1996 Spice Girls 1996 Greenday
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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Swing When You're Winning Michael Buble Jamie Cullum Paul Anka-Rock Swings
Eva Cassidy Norah Jones

MCR Zutons Avril Lavigne Killers ? ?

Moulin Rouge ? ?
Michael Brecker ?
Elvis Presley Revival
David Gray G4 Il Divo Paul Potts ? ?
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Amy Winehouse Rihanna Mica
Westlife S Club 7 Will Young Busted Girls Aloud McFly ? ?

Sir Mick Jagger ? ?

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Razorlight Snow Patrol
James Split KT Tunstall Franz Ferdinand Kaiser Chiefs Arctic Monkeys ?
Eminen Basement Jaxx Beyonce Faithless Crazy Frog Lily Allen Shakira ? ?
The Darkness Linkin Park ? ?
Trivium ? ?
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Desmond Dekker dies
Eminem The Darkness 2003 Kaiser Chiefs 2005 Sir Mick Jagger 2002 Arctic Monkeys 2007