A Brief History Of The Pop Video/Pop Music

In the 1950s the only way for fans to see stars like 'Elvis', in England would be to go to see his film or he sometimes would appear on television on saturday night variety act show. This is because he never came to England to perform.

Cliff Ritchard, who was the English copy of Elvis, made many films which his fans would watch and he would release records of the songs in the film which fans would also buy.

It was difficult for people to hear popular music in the 1950s without buying the singers record. this is because the radio at that time could by law only play around 10 hours of records over the radio per week this was called needle time. So they would on a saturday night have like a chart show of all the popular records of the week. What radio stations did during the week was they had other unknown bands on to cover the songs, so they wouldn't have to play the record and use up the precious record time.

Because of this pirate radio was created, they had no restrictions as the normal radio stations did. These stations became very popular and over time the legal radio had to make changes because people wasn't listening, they got rid of the needle time and hired all the pirate radio presenters and put them to work for them.