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The term may have been coined in an interview with Pete Townshend of The Who in the mid-1960s. As early as 1965, the Everly Brothers were playing music that can be called power pop; their "I'll See Your Light" displayed jangling guitars and an oblique harmonic approach that built upon the innovations of The Beatles and The Byrds. Those groups, along with The Who, are often cited as the progenitors of power pop, though they did not confine themselves to the style.

The groups that arose in the wake of The Beatles' success were also important in the evolution of the style: the Left Banke, The Beau Brummels, the Knickerbockers and The Zombies.

Modern power pop gained momentum in the late '60s with the first recordings by The Flamin' Groovies and Badfinger. Badfinger singles such as "No Matter What," "Baby Blue" and "Day After Day," all recorded around 1970, were the template for the power pop that followed. In the early '70s the form was codified by the work of The Raspberries, Big Star, Blue AshBlue Ash is a United States band. It was formed in Ohio in the summer of 1969 when bassist Frank Secich asked Jim Kendzor (a singer he knew) if he'd like to start a band. Guitarist Bill Yendrek and drummer David Evans were recruited in August and they deb, Dwight Twilley and Todd RundgrenTodd Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is a musician, songwriter and record producer born in Upper Darby, a suburb of Philadelphia. He is the founder of the bands Nazz and Utopia, and has produced albums for Meat Loaf, Patti Smith, The Tubes, XTC, Badfinger,. At that stage, power pop groups were nearly all American, and the first albums by Big Star and The Raspberries are still considered among the genre's essential recordings.

Although Rundgren and The Raspberries achieved some chart success during the period, Big Star spent years relegated to cult status, earning a wider name only after being extolled in the '80s by bands like R.E.M.is a rock band formed in Athens, Georgia in 1980 by Michael Stipe (vocals), Bill Berry (drums), Peter Buck (guitar) and Mike Mills (bass). Throughout the 1980s, while signed to the independent label I. they achieved a growing cult status due mainly to Sti and The ReplacementsFor the 2000 Keanu Reeves movie, see The Replacements (film). The Replacements were a seminal alternative rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. They began as a punk rock outfit, but they style shifted to more mainstream, blues-influenced rock following t. In the late '70s power pop enjoyed one of its periodic resurgences, with the dB'sThe dB's were a power pop group of the late 1970s and 1980s. The bandmembers were Peter Holsapple, Chris Stamey, Will Rigby and Gene Holder. The dB's formed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the '70s and were influenced by the music of bands such as the, the Records , Cheap TrickCheap Trick is an American rock and roll band from Rockford, Illinois that gained notoriety in the late 1970s. The band members are Rick Nielsen (guitarist and main songwriter), Bun E. Carlos (born Brad Carlson) (drums), Robin Zander (vocals and guitars),, The KnackThe Knack were a Los Angeles-based rock band that rose to fame with their first single, "My Sharona", in 1979 (see 1979 in music) from their debut album, Get the Knack''. My Sharona" was an international hit that earned the band comparisons to The Beatles, 20/2020/20 is a refferal to standard quality of vision see also Snellen chart 20/20 is an American television newsmagazine broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. The show was created by Roone Arledge. The original news anchors were veteran journalists Harold Hay and the Shoes drawing upon the innovations of earlier groups. Most notable was the smash success of The Knack's "My Sharona." A straightforward take on the more nuanced style of classic power pop, the single notched six weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in 1979.

The Flamin' Groovies, whose 1969 LP "Supersnazz" had contained both embryonic power pop and stylized reworkings of '50s rock and roll, turned decisively to the style in 1976 with songs like "Shake Some Action" and "You Tore Me Down." Nick Lowe recorded many songs in the power pop vein, including the 1979 hit single "Cruel to Be Kind."

In the 1980s and 1990s power pop continued to be a creatively viable if commercially limited genre, as artists such as Marshall Crenshaw (whose first two albums are considered classics of the genre), Matthew Sweet, Teenage Fanclub, Material Issue , The Posies and Jellyfish drew inspiration from Big Star, the Beatles and glam rock groups of the early 1970s like T. Rex and Sweet.

In the mid-1990s, while power pop flourished in the underground via acts such as the Shazam, the sound made a mainstream appearance with the success of Weezer. Some 1990s rock acts, such as Nirvana and Oasis, bore unmistakable signs of power pop influence. Today, power pop traits are prominently displayed by groups such as Fountains of Wayne, and found to a lesser extent in the work of acts such as Jet and The Vines.

See also: List of power pop musicians

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