When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Night Ranger in 1984 (from left): Alan Fitzgerald, Jeff Watson, Jack Blades, Kelly Keagy, Brad ...

The thing about soft rock is that it was never an exclusive genre. Cross-pollinating among pop, rock, country rock and, especially, adult contemporary music of the day, the best soft rock records ...

Ambrosia is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. Known for their smooth harmonies and mix of progressive rock with soft pop, the band gained major attention in the late ’70s ...

In the summer of 1975, a soft rock ballad dominated the charts in both the United States and the U.K. The song was 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love,” written by former Neil Sedaka backup band members Eric ...

When Foreigner's sixth studio album, Inside Information, arrived on Dec. 7, 1987, it further drove a wedge between the band's two creative forces. Though Inside Information was armed to continue ...

Soft rock is a subgenre that by its very name is easy to make fun of. It’s goopy. It’s sappy. It’s full of pianos and emotional longing. Now it’s gotten the documentary treatment on Paramount+. The ...

“Jive Talkin’” is based around some appropriated lingo the Bee Gees shouldn’t have been using. There’s a reason you don’t hear it today. The fact that this song topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the ...

In 1997, Blur, one of Britpop’s giants, released its biggest single, “Song 2”. The irony being that it sounded like an American record. Oasis continued with Britpop on Be Here Now, the same year, and ...

One of the big hit songs of 1984 was Sister Christian by San Francisco rock band Night Ranger. But that success came after a run of bad luck that would have finished off a lesser band. When these guys ...