THE BEATLES

https://medium.com/@baswallet/how-technology-and-the-beatles-changed-art-sex-work-and-truth-e24493872d7b

https://www.soundoflife.com/blogs/mixtape/6-ways-the-beatles-changed-the-world-of-music-forever

They changed everything. The role of pop music in the 60s and how we perceived pop music as an art form.

https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/gb.shtml

If you like some thorough Beatle-analysis, Alan W. Pollack is your man.

1.001 ALBUMS YOU MUST HEAR BEFORE YOU DIE

A chronological list

BEST ALBUMS EVERRRRR

	BEST ALBUMS EVER 2025

1.	Songs in the Key of Life	Stevie Wonder	1976	1111111	USA
2.	Thriller	Michael Jackson	1982	111111	USA
3.	An Evening With Silk Sonic	Silk Sonic	2021	11111	USA
4.	Rumours	Fleetwood Mac	1977	1111	USA
5.	Voodoo	D'Angelo	2000	1111	USA
6.	In Rainbows	Radiohead	2007	1111	UK
7.	We Like It Here	Snarky Puppy	2014	1111	USA
8.	Dark Side Of The Moon	Pink Floyd	1973	1111	UK
9.	Of The Wall	Michael Jackson	1979	111	USA
10.	Grace	Jeff Buckley	1994	111	USA
11.	Aja	Steely Dan	1977	111	USA

	Brothers In Arms	Dire Straits	1985	11	UK
	Blue	Joni Mitchell	1971	11	CAN
	Future Nostalgia	Dua Lipa	2020	11	UK
	Appetite For Destruction	Guns 'n' Roses	1989	11	USA
	Abbey Road	The Beatles	1969	11	UK
	Wish You Were Here	Pink Floyd	1975	11	UK
	The Bends	Radiohead	1995	11	UK
	Debut	Björk	1993	11	ISL
	Two Star and the Dream Police	Mk.Gee	2024	11	USA

THE (R)EVOLUTION
OF ROCKNROLL

THE RIDDLES OF ROCKNROLL 
[by Leo D’Anjou] – reading questions

1. What and where is Tin Pan Alley?
2. What went wrong with TPA in the 1950s?
3. White teenagers were listening to what kind of radio stations? And what was the effect in the music industry?
4. What is the phase in-between discovery and consolidation?
5. Who was Alan Freed?
6. What was the 1st Rocknroll song to emerge on the Billboard national chart?
7. What did Bill Haley do with his lyrics (like many other artists)?
8. Who was Sam Phillips?
9. What is Rockabilly?
10. What were the 3 main streams in popular music before Rocknroll?
11. Why were the vocal groups important for the course of Rocknroll?
12. What is Doo-Wop?
13. Name the 6 most important independent record companies in Rocknroll.
14. What was the name of the record company where Chuck Berry released his singles? Which city are we talking about?
15. Why was the south of the USA important in the development of Rocknroll?

The Canon: What went wrong

Take a good look at all the lists combined on https://www.besteveralbums.com/index.php. Do you see the problem? How did this happen? How can we fix it?

Everytime you make a list, a ranking, you change the canon.

https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-albums-you-must-hear-before-you-die-every

Choose your TOP 5 from this list.

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Your TOP 5 might be different tomorrow, the canon changes in time.