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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Richard_From_CHI on March 10, 2007, 09:21:59 AM
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Who will write the next Hole album now???
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Brad Delp, the lead singer of the 1970s and '80s rock band Boston was found dead at his home in southern New Hampshire on Friday, local police said.
Delp, 55, apparently was home alone and there was no indication of foul play, Atkinson, New Hampshire, police said.
With Delp's big, high-register voice, Boston scored hits with "More Than a Feeling," "Long Time," and "Peace of Mind."
The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, but it remained active off and on, producing its last album "Corporate America" in 2002.
Delp was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and bought his first guitar at age 13 after seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show, according to his Web site. Since 1994, he spent his spare time working in a tribute band called Beatle Juice, the band's Web site said.
The band's Web site carried a statement, "We've just lost the nicest guy in rock and roll."
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Rest in Peace, dude. I got into the first Boston album as a kind of joke a few years ago, but now I genuinely think it's awesome. "Rock'n'Roll Band" is a karaoke killer. "Something About You" - unacknowledged cheese-rock masterpiece. Now he's singing with the angels.
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Boston's first record is a masterpiece!
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Commissioner Delp is mobbed up!
Boston Boston is one of two albums I can name with 8 out of 8 songs in relatively heavy airplay on Classic Rock radio.
Can anyone guess the other?
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Maybe a Who record? Or Led Zeppelin?
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I was thinking Led Zeppelin IV - even Four Sticks gets occasional airplay on the local classic rock station.