Forty Years of Pop

Today, I read "Forty Years of Pop", a series of Oxford Bookworms, leveled 2 book.

If you read it, you can learn about pop music culture.

In 1956, a young man from the south of the United States made a record called Heartbreak Hotel. The young man was Elvis Presley. 8 million people bought his record and it went straight to number one in the US charts. I t was the first of many hits for Elvis and it was also one of the first modern pop records.

Most pop doesn't mean very much. And yet, now and then, pop says something important in a beautiful way. There are some songs and sounds which speak to everyone.

This book tells us about some of the great stars and the great sounds of pop during the last forty years.