Not to be confused with Underground soft-rock mining.
"Easy rock" redirects here. For the music radio brand, see Easy Rock.
Soft rock
Other names
Light rock
Stylistic origins
Pop rock[1]
sunshine pop[2]
Brill Building[3]
Cultural origins
Mid- to late 1960s, United Kingdom and Southern California
Derivative forms
Adult contemporary music
hypnagogic pop
Other topics
Folk rock
hard rock
yacht rock
Soft rock (also known as light rock) is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in Southern California 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]
^ abcAnon (n.d.). "Soft Rock". AllMusic.
^Stanley 2013, p. 179.
^Viglione, Joe. "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do". AllMusic. Archived from the original on October 24, 2016.
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