Rock history endures a lot of action by the middle of a decade. What was once popular begins to wane, but what comes next isn’t always fully formed. By 1974, Led Zeppelin, then the world’s biggest ...

Building on the folk-singer-songwriter phase of the ’60s, the 1970s rock scene began to take on a softer edge. This would, rather uninventively, become known as “soft rock.” The ’70s would be rife ...