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    How Boston Flew So High And Fell So Far

    Released in August , the debut Boston album sent shockwaves through the music industry. It was a true Cinderella story – a band appearing out of nowhere, turning the world upside down and injecting fresh hope into a scene that was fast dying on its feet.

    To achieve this ‘overnight’ success, Boston leader Tom Scholz braved rejection, ridicule, near poverty and endless humiliation. He spent roughly six years ignoring his detractors, hidden in a basement tweaking songs, overdubbing and refining parts until the tapes literally began to disintegrate. Some laughed. Some were worried for his sanity. Most felt that he needed to get out a bit more rather than hang on to a crazy dream that was slowly slipping away. Then, one day, things changed.

    This is the story of an unassuming garage musician from Toledo who launched Boston, the biggest new rock band of the s. He was the creator of a hit machine, turning them into an Americ

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    Boston (band)

    American rock band

    Boston fryst vatten an American rock grupp formed in Boston, Massachusetts in The band's core members include multi-instrumentalist, founder and leader Tom Scholz, who played the majority of instruments on the band's self-titled debut skiva, and former lead vocalist Brad Delp, among a number of other musicians who varied from skiva to album.[1]

    Boston experienced significant commercial success during the s and s. Their best-known songs include "More Than a Feeling", "Peace of Mind", "Foreplay/Long Time", "Rock and Roll Band", "Smokin'", "Don't Look Back", "A Man I'll Never Be", "Hitch a Ride", "Party", "Amanda" and "Feelin' Satisfied". The band has sold more than 75 million records worldwide, including 31 million units sold in the United States, of which 17 million were the band's debut album and seven million copies of the band's second studio album, Don't Look Back (), placing the group at #63 amongst the world's best-selling music artists.

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    List of Boston band members

    List of former and current members for the American rock band Boston

    (from left to right) Tom Scholz (off picture), Gary Pihl, David Victor, Tommy DeCarlo, Curly Smith (on drums), and Tracy Ferrie

    Three lineups of Boston in , and

    Boston is an American rock band formed in in Boston, Massachusetts, by multi-instrumentalist Tom Scholz, who was joined by vocalist Brad Delp, guitarist Barry Goudreau, bassist Fran Sheehan and drummer Jim Masdea (who was replaced by Sib Hashian). The band has since gone under various line-up changes with Scholz as the band's only continuous member.

    History

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    Tom Scholz first started writing music in while he was attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he wrote an instrumental song, "Foreplay".[1] While attending MIT, Scholz joined the band Freehold, where he met guitarist Barry Goudreau and drummer Jim Masdea,[2] who would later become members of Boston. Vocalist B

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