How does one describe yacht rock? The folks at MasterClass did a pretty good job. Essentially, it's a component of soft rock, adult contemporary, and Album-oriented rock (AOR) all rolled into one.

John Lennon and Frank Sinatra agreed that this classic 1970s song was the greatest of all time. Today, it is featured on channels of soft rock songs grouped in a genre called Yacht Rock.

Gone were the psychedelic '60s as the '70s ushered in a new era of soft rock (Elton John ... According to The Top Tens, the best rock artist of the 1970s is Bob Dylan. The folk-rock icon is ...