Soft rock

For other uses, see Soft Rock.
"Easy rock" redirects here. For the music radio brand, see Easy Rock.

Soft rock
Other names
  • Light rock
Stylistic origins
Cultural originsMid- to late 1960s, United Kingdom and Southern California
Derivative forms
Other topics

Soft rock (also known as light rock) is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in the United States and the United Kingdom which smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock,[1] relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions. Soft rock was prevalent on the radio throughout the 1970s and eventually metamorphosed into a form of the synthesized music of adult contemporary in the 1980s.[1] The genre was pioneered by such artists as Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, James Taylor and Hall & Oates.

  1. ^ a b c Anon (n.d.). "Soft Rock". AllMusic.
  2. ^ Stanley 2013, p. 179.
  3. ^ Viglione, Joe. "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do". AllMusic. Archived from the original on October 24, 2016.