Yacht rock wasn’t always called yacht rock. Back in its heyday in the late 1970s and ’80s, it was known as soft rock, or adult-oriented rock, or the West Coast Sound and “featured elements of smooth ...
Since the mid-2010s, there has been a resurgence of soft-rock songs from the '70s and '80s, often referred to as "yacht rock" (think Toto's "Africa," Christopher Cross's "Sailing," and Boz Scaggs' ...