It fuses pop and with subtle infusions of rock. Soft Rock has a definitive core surrounded by fuzzy outlines where it touches other styles in that strange murky place where musical ideas mix and blend. Over beers with Musician Matthew Bannister I poised the question:Īfter some thought Matthew replied: “Soft Rock is pop music for adults.” Popular music emerged from the 60s innocence lost but altogether more knowing and self-aware and by the end of the decade Rock and Roll’s bad little brother Rock was flexing its muscles and giving birth to a diverse wealth of sub-genres that included the burgeoning Soft Rock scene. Rebellious fantasy with a hint of danger, it was mostly dance and make-out music for kids that by the early 1960s had gone from shouting ‘Golly Gee’ to whispering ‘Fuck You’.

By the mid-1950s it was firmly established as a stand-alone genre. Rock and Roll evolved from the ‘white hot mix’ of sounds that defined the American musical landscape through 1940s- swing, jazz, country and blues.

70s soft rock videos