40 years ago an unknown band led by an introverted genius was transformed into a global rock n roll phenomenon.
Rock band boston.
Boston s best known songs include more than a feeling peace of mind.
Generating three american top 40 hits the group s eponymous first album became the biggest selling debut in rock history.
Lots of scenes had scores of 60s inspired garage rock bands in the 80s but very few had bands of the caliber boston did.
Centered on guitarist songwriter and producer tom scholz a former product designer at polaroid corporation and an mit engineering student the band s best known works include the popular singles m read more.
The band toured in 2015.
Well we were just another band out of boston on the road to try to make ends meet playin all the bars sleepin in our cars and we practiced right on out in.
The band was boston the genius leader was tom scholz and their first album titled simply boston went on to sell over 17 million copies becoming the biggest selling debut in the history of american music a record they held for a decade until it was broken by guns n.
The last time boston played the td garden was in 2013 for the boston strong benefit concert where victims and heros where rightly honored in an emotionally mixed night of somber and celebration.
Produced by tom scholz and john boylan the album was released on august 25 1976 in the united states by epic records scholz had studied classical piano in his childhood and became involved in the boston music scene in the late 1960s.
Guitarist scholz who had earned a master s degree in mechanical engineering at the massachusetts.
He subsequently started to concentrate on demos recorded in his apartment basement with singer.
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Boston is a rock band that formed in 1974 in boston massachusetts united states.
Boston is the debut studio album by american rock band boston.
Boston is also the city where i began my own music career music education and met my wife playing in a boston local nightclub.