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soft rock
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music genre derived from popular and rock music
Key facts
- Other names
- Light rock mellow rock
- Stylistic origins
- Pop rock sunshine pop Brill Building
- Cultural origins
- Mid- to late 1960s, United Kingdom and Southern California
- Derivative forms
- Adult contemporary music hypnagogic pop
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Soft rock (also known as light rock, mellow rock or adult-oriented 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, 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.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “soft rock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.