It also survives as Top of the Pops 2, which began in 1994 and features vintage performances from the Top of the Pops archives. Though TOTP2 ceased producing...
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"Beat It" is a song by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson from his sixth studio album, Thriller (1982). It was written and composed by Jackson...
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under his own name, releasing Soul Session (1969) and The Gentures in Beat Pops (1970), with, among others, Hiromasa Suzuki, Kiyoshi Sugimoto and Masaoki...
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Birmingham, England, in 1978. Their music fuses Latin, ska, pop, soul, reggae and punk rock. The Beat, consisting of Dave Wakeling (vocals, guitar), Ranking...
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Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a British popular music genre and around Liverpool, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The genre melded influences...
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Black Messengers. Popping can be concentrated to specific body parts, creating variants such as arm pops, leg pops, chest pops and neck pops. With its roots...
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The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in...
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Beat Happening was an American indie pop band formed in Olympia, Washington, in 1982. Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis, and Bret Lunsford have been the band's...
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music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level). The beat is often defined...
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Pan's People (category Top of the Pops dance troupes)
the Pops began on 1 January 1964 as a weekly programme playing a selection of records from the current charts. From November 1964, Top of the Pops had...
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Bronski Beat were a British synth-pop band formed in 1983 in London, England. The initial lineup, which recorded the majority of their hits, consisted...
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Drop (music) (redirect from Beat drop)
A drop or beat drop in music, made popular by electronic dance music (EDM) styles, is a point in a music track where a sudden change of rhythm or bass...
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British Beat The Beat (American band), a power-pop band, later known as Paul Collins Beat The Beat (American band album), their debut album The Beat (Boney...
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late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, early pop rock was influenced by the beat, arrangements, and original style of rock and roll (and sometimes...
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Trap music (redirect from Trap beat)
subdivisions) from 50 (100) BPM to 88 (176) BPM, but the tempo of a typical trap beat is around 70 (140) BPM. As hip hop grew, it created many forms such as gangsta...
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The Beat Room is a British television series presenting beat, rhythm and blues and other pop music, shown on BBC2 from 1964 – 1965. The series was produced...
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studio album Excuse My French (2013), it was produced by Lee on the Beats. "Pop That" is a dirty rap and trap song of five minutes and four seconds in...
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Jimmy Somerville (category Bronski Beat members)
1961) is a Scottish pop singer and songwriter from Glasgow, Scotland. He sang in the 1980s with the synth-pop groups Bronski Beat and the Communards,...
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states that "[...] in the early 1960s, [the term] 'pop music' competed terminologically with beat music [in England], while in the US its coverage overlapped...
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A blast beat is a type of drum beat that originated in hardcore punk and grindcore, and is often associated with certain styles of extreme metal, namely...
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The Spektors were an Australian beat, pop and rock 'n' roll band active in Perth from 1964 to mid-1966. Their co-drummer and part-time lead singer, a...
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The Bo Diddley beat is a syncopated musical rhythm that is widely used in rock and roll and pop music. The beat is named after rhythm and blues musician...
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Marlon work on a daily basis. Their father, John "Pops" Williams (John Witherspoon), owns a diner called Pops' Joint, where Marlon once worked (during season...
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helped Pop Smoke win Top Billboard 200 Album and Top Rap Album at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards. On May 1, 2021, American producer Rico Beats hinted...
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Got the Beat (Korean: 갓더비트; RR: Gatdeobiteu; stylized as GOT the beat) is a South Korean supergroup and first sub-unit of project group Girls On Top....
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D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat is the debut studio album by Danish pop duo Junior Senior. Originally released in March 2002 in Denmark, an altered edition...
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J-pop (ジェーポップ, jēpoppu) (often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as pops (ポップス, poppusu)...
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"Turn the Beat Around" is a disco song written by Gerald Jackson and Peter Jackson, and performed by American actress and singer Vicki Sue Robinson in...
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The discography of the British pop music group Bronski Beat contains albums, singles, and videos. They were a synthpop trio which achieved success in the...
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analytical history of pop music (Manchester: Manchester University Press ND, 1987), p. 110. M. Campbell, Popular Music in America: And the Beat Goes on: Popular...
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