Boston – More Than a Feeling

“More Than a Feeling” – Single by Boston from the album Boston, released September 18, 1976
Recorded: October 1975 – April 1976

Group leader Tom Scholz wrote this song, which is about a guy who wakes up with the blahs, turns on some music, and gets lost in reverie dreaming of his days with Marianne. “It was written about a fantasy event,” he told Entertainment Weekly of the song. “But it’s one that almost everybody can identify with, of somebody losing somebody that was important to them, and music taking them back there.”

The dream girl in this song, Marianne, was based on a real person. “She was my older first cousin, who I had a crush on when I was 10,” Scholz explained. “I ran into her many many years later and she was very annoyed at me for mentioning that she was my older cousin.”

Boston played very few live shows before releasing the album, and when it took off so quickly, they found themselves playing large venues on short notice. An under-rehearsed band playing songs that were meticulously crafted in the studio sounds like a concert disaster, but fans and critics were thrilled to find out they were really good. The live interpretations of the songs worked very well and the band had years of experience playing in other outfits, giving them the chops to pull it off.

The single was edited down to 3:25 from the album version, which runs 4:44.

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Boston - More Than a Feeling (6/17/1979)

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• Tom Scholz – acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar
• Brad Delp – lead and backing vocals
• Sib Hashian – drums

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