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By the early 1960s, even rock ‘n’ roll had become old-fashioned. Many of the
songs had begun to sound the same. It was at that time that a new group from
England became popular–the Beatles.

The Beatles first started by singing American style songs, but they soon developed
their own style with more complicated melodies. They also introduced different
instruments, such as the Indian guitars. Music groups like the Beatles had a very
important influence on the style of popular music.

By the early 1970s, rock ‘n’ roll had developed into a new form of music. Elec-
tronics had replaced the amplified guitars and drums of rock ‘n’ roll. ‘Rock’ had
arrived.

Rock Today
Rock music has continued to change and develop. It has combined with music
from different parts of the world. Today there are hundreds of different types of
rock music and almost every country has its own form of rock. There is ‘heavy
metal’ which is extremely loud with hard rhythms, ‘reggae’ from Jamaica, that
combines rock with jazz and Latin rhythms, ‘rap’ that developed on the streets
of New York, ‘disco’ a type of soft rock music for dancing, ‘Afro-rock’ that com-
bines rock with African rhythms. ‘Mex-rock which combines rock with traditional
Mexican melodies….and many, many more.