soft rock
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of soft rock
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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The quartet, who won in 2018 for second album Visions of a Life, have claimed their fourth nomination for The Clearing, an album rooted in the sounds of 1970s soft rock.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025
But the film’s musical touchstone, a soft rock number that “Euphoria” breakout star Hunter Schafer sings onscreen, didn’t come together until years later.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024
So I would make my list for "Daisy,' and then here's my more soft rock '70s for "Are You There?
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2024
Eric Carmen, the rock singer who led the 1970s power-pop pioneers the Raspberries before reinventing himself as a soft rock crooner who became a mainstay of 1980s music, has died.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2024
The walls of this chamber, which must have been fully thirty feet in height at its greatest altitude, were formed of the soft rock, out of which it had been excavated apparently uncounted ages before.
From The Border Boys Across the Frontier by Goldfrap, John Henry
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