In 1978, Kenny Loggins helped create a song that would become one of the defining soft rock classics of its era. "What a Fool ...

If you were young or just around in the 1990s, these soft rock songs were likely in your regular rotation during the ...

In 1983, Marc Jordan's "Margarita" was hardly a major commercial success, failing to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite ...

The singer turned experiences from life on the road into one of the most beloved soft rock ballads of the 1970s.

This enduring soft rock hit became one of the Fortunes' best-known songs in the early 1970s.

In 1974, the band America released a soft rock classic inspired by one of the most beloved movies ever made. "Tin Man" became ...

Kim Carnes' chart-topping hit has an extensive history.

The thoughtful hit overcame skepticism from record executives to become one of soft rock’s most enduring songs.

Soft rock was much more common in the 1970s than it is today, and that’s a shame. There’s something so soothing, relaxed, and musically interesting about soft rock from the latter half of the 20th ...

Everybody’s a softie — well, almost everyone — when it comes to a fondness for the not-so-hard-hitting heyday of “soft rock,” which has a strong overlap with what’s come to be known and celebrated as ...

THE BEST soft rock has always had a very hard centre. In its 1970s heyday it wasn’t the music of wine bars and drivetime playlists; it was the music of complicated emotions and adult lives. Think of ...