Todays Classic Rock Song of the Day is More Than A Feeling by Boston from their self titled debut album from 1976. Group leader Tom Scholz wrote this. A graduate of MIT, he was working at Polaroid up until this was released. According to Rolling Stone magazine, Scholz was inspired by the heart-tugging mood of the Left Bankes 1967 song Walk Away Renee. He worked on the song for 5 years in his basement studio before it was released on this album. This was Bostons first single. When they tried to release their first album, no one would produce it, so they made their own production company and did it all. The album Boston is one of the best selling of all time. It sold very well in the 80s and 90s due to catalog sales, which were these offers record companies made to the public where you could get something like 25 CDs for a penny and long as you chose from their selection and agreed to buy a certain number of albums in the future. For many years Boston was the best selling debut album in the US with 17 million sales. However their record was broken on September 23, 2008 when the Recording Industry Association of America certified Guns N Roses debut set Appetite for Destruction for 18 million sales.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 23:41:32 +0000
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