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Boston - Self Titled, S/T 1976 repress of the Orig 1st press ~Epic JE-34188 ~ VG+/VG

This classic 1976 album is in excellent condition with some light surface scuffs but plays very clean. Playback tested.

Album Jacket is slightly worn around outside edges and shows some light ware on both front and back cover but is in very good condition.

Boston is the debut studio album by American rock band Boston, released on August 25, 1976, by Epic Records. Produced by Tom Scholz and John Boylan, A multi-instrumentalist and engineer who had been involved in the Boston music scene since the late 1960s, Scholz started to write and record demos in his apartment basement with singer Brad Delp, but received numerous rejection letters from major record labels. By 1975, the demo tape had fallen into the hands of CBS-owned Epic Records, who signed them. Defying Epic Records's insistence on recording the album professionally in Los Angeles, California, Scholz and Boylan tricked the label into thinking the band was recording on the West Coast, when in reality, the bulk was being tracked solely by Scholz at his Massachusetts home. The album's contents are a complete re creation of the band's demo tape, and contain songs written and composed many years prior. The album's style, often referred to as the "Boston sound", was developed through Scholz's love of classical music, melodic hooks and early guitar-heavy rock groups such as the Kinks and the Yardbirds, as well as a number of analogue electronic effects developed by Scholz in his home studio. Besides Scholz, who played most of the instruments on nearly all of the tracks, and Delp, other musicians appear on the album such as drummers Jim Masdea and Sib Hashian, guitarist Barry Goudreau and bassist Fran Sheehan. All except Masdea became full-time band members. The album was released by Epic in August 1976 and broke sales records, becoming the best-selling album in the US at the time, and winning the RIAA Century Award as best selling debut album. The album's singles, most notably "More Than a Feeling" and "Long Time", were both AM and FM hits, and nearly the entire album receives constant air play on classic rock radio. The album is often regarded as a staple in '70s rock and has been included on many best-of/greatest lists. It has sold at least 17 million copies in the United States alone and at least 20 million worldwide making it one of the best selling debut albums of all time.