These killer tunes did well on the charts back in 1981, but many listeners today have totally forgotten about them.

The thing about soft rock is that it was never an exclusive genre. Cross-pollinating among pop, rock, country rock and, especially, adult contemporary music of the day, the best soft rock records ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - If you haven’t checked out Yacht Rock, it’s high time you come aboard. The band Yachtley Crew first brought its take on retro ‘70s and ‘80s soft rock hits to the stage in 2017.

It’s a tradition as old as pop music itself: A band discovers how much money can be made by crossing over to the pop market and starts crafting softer music accordingly. It has happened to the best of ...

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Soft rock is a little hard to define. In general, one could say it’s simply a form of rock music that focuses more on lyrical content and melody over the “harshness” of hard rock’s instrumentation. It ...

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David Soul, the actor-singer who famously starred as Kenneth “Hutch” Hutchinson in the beloved TV series Starsky & Hutch and scored a Number One hit with the soft rock ballad “Don’t Give Up on Us,” ...