![]() ![]() From the end of the 1960s, it became common to divide mainstream rock music into soft and hard rock, with both emerging as major radio formats in the US. By 1968, hard rock had been established as a mainstream genre. Softer sounds in rock music could be heard in mid-1960s songs, such as “A Summer Song” by Chad & Jeremy (1964) and “Here, There and Everywhere” by the Beatles and “I Love My Dog” by Cat Stevens (both from 1966). ![]() Soft rock was prevalent on the radio throughout the 1970s and eventually metamorphosed into a form of the synthesized music of adult contemporary in the 1980s. The style smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock, relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions. region of Southern California and in the United Kingdom. Soft Rock is a form of pop rock that originated in the late 1960s in the U.S.
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