As with most irritants in life, I blame Lionel Richie. Of course, I am talking about the soft-rock genre of music labeled as Yacht Rock. The rhyming phrase started as a joke made by comedians on a ...

A comedic web series about the fictionalized highs and lows of McDonald (and his pop musical peers from the late 1970s and early ’80s) gave the music a name: yacht rock. HBO’s “Yacht Rock ...

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.

David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. (L-R) Michael McDonald and Christopher Cross from 'Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary.' Almost 20 years ago, the irreverent comedy series Yacht ...

As the HBO film, “Music Box: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary” chronicles, the term was first introduced by actors J.D. Ryznar and Hunter Stair in their online mockumentary, “Yacht Rock.” ...

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Katie Puckrik explores the 1970s American music phenomenon of yacht rock, a halcyon period of Los Angeles studio craft that married R&B with themes of longing, aspiration and melancholy.

Yachtley Crew is proud to fly the flag of Yacht Rock for each and every generation that loves good fun and good-time music, and they very much look forward to sharing new and classic Yacht Rock ...

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