Boston: Boston

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Jon Pareles wrote in the New York Times: "Brad Delp, the lead singer and a guitarist for Boston, a hugely popular rock band in the late 1970s, was found dead on Friday. … Mr. Delp sang the lead and harmony tracks on the first three Boston albums, starting with its 1976 debut, 'Boston.' On Tuesday the National Association of Record Manufacturers and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ranked the album No. 43 in a list of 200 'definitive' rock albums. The band, specializing in what became known as anthem rock — ballads beefed up with multilayered rock instrumentation — produced hits like 'More Than a Feeling,' 'Smokin' ' and 'Don't Look Back,' selling millions of albums. Mr. Delp joined Boston while working in a manufacturing plant making heating coils for Mr. Coffee machines and singing in Boston-area clubs at night, according to the band's Web site, bandboston.com/html. … In addition to Mr. Delp and Mr. Goudreau, Boston included its founder Tom Scholz and Jim Masdea, its drummer. When Boston later regrouped, its throwback-to-the-70s album 'Third Stage,' in 1986, was a blockbuster" (3/10/07).