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Three decades ago, in the summer of 1976, there was a band and an album with the simple title Boston. The 17-million-selling debut album and its 7-million-selling follow-up, Don't Look Back from 1978, remain two of the most enigmatic case studies of the modern rock age. Unjustly denigrated as role models of so-called "corporate rock", they were in reality the same basement tapes that mastermind Tom Scholz submitted as demos. Their commercial release deceived the company's executives in one of the great deceptive manoeuvres of rock.

Thirty years later, these master tapes have been digitally remastered - for the first time by Scholz himself - and the mysteries of Boston and Don't Look Back are being made visible so that history can be revisited.

Almost 25 million copies later, the irony that Boston is belittled by the critics because of the grandiosity of the production is a last laugh for Scholz and his most important collaborator, singer Brad Delp. "This demo and the album that followed turned the disco-crazy music industry upside down and broke all known rules to succeed in the world of rock 'n' roll," Scholz writes.

Boston was in the right place at the right time as an alternative to the disco and emerging punk rock movements of 1976. Certified gold a month after appearing on the Billboard albums chart and platinum a month later, it spent a solid 2 1/2 years on the list, producing hit singles "More Than A Feeling," "Long Time," and "Peace Of Mind."

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