Turn on the radio in the ’70s and ’80s and you were bound to hear a Little River Band song. It likely would have been their biggest hit — 1978’s “Reminiscing”: “Hurry, don’t be late, I can hardly wait ...

The year is 1978. Though reeling a bit from the rude explosion of punk rock in England, most of the musical world is comfortably ensconced in the mellow sounds of post-disco soft-rock, a genre that ...