When the 1970s rolled around, music fans craved something smoother than the hard-hitting rock dominating the airwaves. Soft rock bands delivered the perfect remedy with their mellow melodies, ...

In 1979, Christopher Cross released a song that would define the early sound of soft rock. The single "Sailing" rose to No. 1 ...

Building on the folk-singer-songwriter phase of the ’60s, the 1970s rock scene began to take on a softer edge. This would, rather uninventively, become known as “soft rock.” The ’70s would be rife ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The soft-rock genre dominated the music scene in the 1970s. From Carole King to Fleetwood Mac, hundreds of artists have topped the ...