By Jethro Mullen—   Heavy D w/ Tribe Called Quest in 1990.  Rapper Heavy D (center, in shades) poses with members of the U.S. hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest around 1990. Hip-hop had the biggest influence on pop music between 1960 and 2010, a new study says. Story highlights British bands didn’t spur a revolution in American music in the ’60s, researchers say They analyzed pop’s evolution through thousands of songs in the Billboard Hot 100 (CNN)–Forget The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the most important development in pop music in the past half century is hip-hop. That’s not an opinion, it’s fact — backed up by hard data, says a team of researchers from two London universities. In a study published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the researchers say they threw out “musical lore and … Read entire article »