This is a light music feature highlighting three soft rock songs from the 1970s, each explained through the personal story behind its lyrics.

– Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" was long thought to be inspired by a photograph of Caroline Kennedy, though Diamond later said in 2014 that it was actually written about his then-wife, Marcia Murphey, after he struggled to find a rhyme for her name.
– Christopher Cross's Grammy-winning "Sailing" draws on his teenage friendship with a man named Al, who used to take him sailing; the pair later reunited to discuss the song on The Howard Stern Show.
– Bob Seger's "Night Moves" reflects on his youth in Ann Arbor, Michigan, recalling a teenage romance with a girl whose boyfriend was away in the military, before the couple married on his return and left Seger heartbroken.