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Europop (also spelled Euro pop) is a style of pop music that originated in Europe during the mid-to-late 1960s [2] and developed to today's form throughout the late 1970s. . Europop topped the charts throughout the 1980s and 1990s, with revivals and moderate degrees of appreciation in the 2
Europop refers to a style of pop music that originated in Europe and is generally more dance and trance oriented than American pop. Europop includes Italo disco and later Eurodance . The Europop genre originated in the late 1970s and topped the charts throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Eurodisco derivatives generally include Europop and Eurodance, with the most prominent sub-genres being space disco of the late 1970s and Italo disco of the early 1980s. The genre declined in popularity after 1986 in preference to electronic rock and hi-NRG, with a small revival of Italo disco in the late 1990s.
Middle of the Road, 1972. Middle of the Road are a Scottish pop group who have enjoyed success across Europe and Latin America since the 1970s. Before ABBA established themselves in the mid 70s, Middle of the Road were the sound of early Europop with their distinctive harmonies and lead vocals from Sally Carr.
In the Soviet Union during the late 1970s, the group were paid in oil commodities because of an embargo on the rouble. [66] The band members (from left to right: Björn, Anni-Frid, Agnetha, and Benny) in Rotterdam, October 1979. On 13 September 1979, ABBA began ABBA: The Tour at Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton, Canada, with a full house of 14,000.
The Aachen Open Air Pop Festival was a rock festival held at Hauptstadion in Aachen, West Germany, on 10–12 July 1970.The "Soersfestival", as it is commonly called, was the initiative of three local students: Golo Goldschmitt, Walter Reiff, and Karl-August Hohmann in particular.
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Online music magazine Pitchfork positioned Dancing Queen at number 80 in its 2016 ranking of the 200 best songs of the 1970s. Reviewer Cameron Cook wrote it is "a song so confident in its structure that its starts from the middle of its chorus", adding that it "bottles the out-of-body euphoria that accompanies dancing for dancing's sake, with ...