Boston’s “More Than a Feeling” became one of the biggest rock songs of the 1970s, but its journey began far from a major recording studio.
Tom Scholz worked on the song in his basement studio in Watertown, Massachusetts, while still working his day job at Polaroid.
Released in August 1976 as the lead single from Boston’s self-titled debut album, “More Than a Feeling” quickly became the song that introduced the band to the world. It entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on Sept. 18, 1976, and eventually reached No. 5…