In the late 1960s, Tom Scholz began attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he first … See more

Boston was recorded primarily at Scholz's own Foxglove Studios in Watertown in "an elaborate end run around the CBS brain trust." Epic wanted a studio version that sounded identical to the demo tape, and Scholz deci… See more

Boston is composed mainly of songs written many years prior to their appearance on the album. Scholz wrote or cowrote every song on the first album (with the exception of "Let Me Take You Home Tonight," w… See more

Boston was released by Epic Records on, according to varying sources, either August 23 or August 25, 1976. The album broke out of Cleveland first, and the following week, it had been added at 392 stations. Had the rec… See more

The album soared, with three singles becoming Top 40 hits. All eight of the songs on the album receive regular airplay on classic rock radio decades later. Taking a mere three weeks to earn an RIAA Gold Record Aw… See more

The first tour in support of the album was a short six-week promotional club tour throughout the Midwest. Boston soon found themselves on a nationwide tour that lasted 10 months. "We started playing the Agoras in … See more