Boston is a best-selling American rock band that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. The music of Boston is often cited as having been influential in the music industry’s move from hard rock in the 1970s to the power ballads that would dominate the 1980s. Centered on guitarist, songwriter, and producer Tom Scholz, a former product designer at Polaroid Corporation, the band’s best known works include the singles “More Than a Feeling”, “Peace of Mind”, “Foreplay/Long Time”, “Don’t Look Back”, and “Amanda”. Their 1976 self-titled debut is still the biggest-selling debut album of all-time in the U.S. with more than 17 million copies sold. “Third Stage” was only the second album to ever be certified triple platinum in its first month of release, in Nov. of 1986. The first was Lionel Richie’s “Dancing On The Ceiling” which did it one month earlier.
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