Power pop
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Power pop is a subgenre of rock music and a form of pop rock based on the early music of bands such as the Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Byrds, and the Who. It typically incorporates melodic hooks, voc
Todd Rundgren's work with Nazz in the 1960s and as a solo artist in the 1970s was significant to the development of the genre.
Cheap Trick playing in 1978
The Posies, 2000
Weezer plays Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, August 2019
Arena rock
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Arena rock is a style of rock music that became mainstream in the 1970s. It typically involves radio-friendly rock music that was designed to be played for large audiences.
This Queen concert in Drammen, Norway, in April 1982 shows the scale and lighting of an arena rock concert, emphasis being on the performed spectacle.
Singer Steve Perry of Journey became one of the faces of arena rock in the late 1970s and early 1980s.