Christopher Cross has been taking his audiences “Riding Like the Wind” on the notes of his easy-listening pop tunes since 1979, winning five Grammys, an Oscar and a Golden Globe along the way. Cross, ...
'80s Yacht Rock King, 74, Blows Fans Away With 'Timeless' Performance of Beloved Song originally appeared on Parade. ‘80s legend Christopher Cross dazzled fans with a five-minute-long version of his ...
In the mid-1970s and ‘80s in SoCal, bands like Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, and Toto blended jazz chords with R&B grooves and pop melodies to create a new soft style. Much of “yacht rock,” as the ...
A few years after his 1980 hit “Steal Away,” Robbie Dupree wondered if the phone would ever ring again. For a star of one of the era’s biggest musical genres, the momentum had stopped. “There were ...