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(Clicka qua per la versione Italiana)
The band Boston was formed (in Boston, of course) by sound engineer, guitarist and
keyboardist Tom Scholz. Their debut album, Boston (Epic, aug 1976),
became one of the all-time best-sellers (eight million copies sold in ten
years), thanks to the catchy pop-metal of
More Than A Feeling and Peace Of Mind, which became the epitome
of AOR for the 1970s.
The eight-minute Foreplay was their tour de force, thanks to a
breathtaking instrumental opening that evoked Yes
at their most visceral.
Don't Look Back (1978) offered a watered-down, less inspired, version
of the same style (Don't Look Back). It took eight years for the band
to get rid of legal problems and release the third album, but it was another
winner: Third Stage (1986), containing
Amanda and We're Ready.
Six years later, instead, Walk On (MCA, 1994) introduced a faceless easy-listening group.
If the originality of their music is virtually nil (despite Scholz's much
publicized guitar tricks), the fact remains that
few musicians have sold so many records with so few albums.
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