Soft rock

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Soft rock, also referred to as lite rock, easy rock, and mellow rock, is a style of music which uses the techniques of rock and roll to compose a softer, supposedly more ear-pleasing sound for listening, often at work. Soft rock is usually sung with higher-pitched vocals, and the lyrics tend to be non-confrontational, focusing in very general language on themes like love and relationships. The genre tends to make heavy use of pianos, synthesizers and sometimes saxophones.

Soft rock began in the early 1970's with bands like Bread and Fleetwood Mac. It became hugely popular by the late 1970's. By 1977, some radio stations, like New York's WTFM, had switched to an all-soft-rock format. [1] Around that same time, Chicago, which had previously been a jazz-rock band, switched to soft rock and reached their biggest commercial successes. Even Led Zeppelin, considered by some to be standardbearers of hard rock, flirted with the genre at the time in songs like 1979's "Fool in the Rain".

Other bands/singers who have recorded a considerable number of songs considered soft rock include: Air Supply, America, Phil Collins, Carole King, James Taylor, Wilson Phillips, Gloria Estefan, Eric Serra, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Carly Simon, Gordon Lightfoot, Bette Midler, Whitney Houston, Steve Perry, Céline Dion, Savage Garden and Seals & Crofts.

In the early 1990's, soft rock began to be known as "adult contemporary".

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