Talk:Boston (band)

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References, references, references. Get an article for every bandmember, present and past. By "article", that is "not a stub". We need pictures, preferably released under GFDL, CCSA, or into PD. Fair use images will do. Expand the History section. Explain their music a bit more. Expand upon (and tidy up) articles on individual singles and albums. The immediate goal is to expand this into a good article. We can talk about featured once it starts to shape up. References are our current #1 target.

[edit] Brad Delp's Death

Need to add details of Brad Delp's passing as they come available.

Need to find out future plans of Boston after the untimely death of Brad Delp. Boston is now lead singer less and given how integral Brad is to the Boston sound, it will be almost impossible to find a lead singer that fits the Boston sound.

I erased that tag above the article, because there is already information later on in the proper place of the article. (On a personal note, this saddens me, becuase Brad Delp was one of the best voices in music) Splent 01:44, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changes

Should "than" in "More than a Feeling" be capitalized, per title case? Mkilly 01:28, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Yes, Atleast i think so. I Have every Boston CD. And Than Is Capitalized On The Debut CD And the Greatest Hits One. User:Tony Garcia 07:48 7 January 2005

Meteors rise? tilde 00:00, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion

I put a request for this page to be edited and expanded, as it is not that well formatted and Boston's album Boston is #11 on the List of best-selling albums in the United States (it went 17 times Platinum) ~~Omnimmotus

Boston's debut album isn't the best selling debut album of all time. Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill is. This is true, Boston was also passed by Whitney Houston's debut album in 1988 I believe.

Jagged Little Pill is her third album In Flames 17:19, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

• the RIAA currently lists Jagged Little Pill at 16x platinum, and Whitney Houston's debut is 13x platinum. But neither Morrissette nor Hootie & The Blowfish can ever be eligible for "best selling debut" status, since they had both released small-label albums prior to their major-label debuts. ScottSwan 08:55, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

In the article for the debut album Tom Scholz is credited with keyboards. The quality of the keyboard work is certainly good enough to deserve a mention on this page. --Art Raymond 12:02, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

What do you do if an you think entry has been copied word for word from an article.The entry about Barry Gourdeau solo album that keep being filed that mentions that Tom Scholz asked Epic to pull the album looks like a word for word copy of an article I read called "Boston though Time". In fact the whole original entry seems to have been copied from this article.My fellow Boston fans and myself have manage to fix the problem,but that one entry keeps being refiled.Boston fan

I reorganized the article a bit, and separated the info to reflect the major events in the history of the band. I'm having trouble finding info on Fran Sheenan, anybody have info on what happened to him after Boston? I know he's been doing single gigs here and there but aside from that I haven't found anything. Eatabullet 14:25, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Fran Sheehan injured his hand in a car crash and is no longer able to play bass.That's all I know.

Fran is retired, plays occasionally with friends/ sits in at events... Lives in Northern VT, Swamscott, MA and Florida. He's well.

[edit] disambiguation?

Should Boston have a disambiguation page?Badmuthahubbard 09:18, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

It does have at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_%28disambiguation%29 but it isn't linked properly. 83.104.249.240 15:59, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sheehan or Sheenan?

In the main article and in the discussion above both spellings are used. Only one can be correct! 83.104.249.240 15:59, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

The proper spelling is Sheehan. We need more information on the Cosmos too!!!

The Cosmos??? They're pretty much a non-notable afterthought in the Boston story. 156.34.218.16 19:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I've changed the two occurrences of 'Sheenan' to 'Sheehan' in the main article. 83.104.249.240 02:06, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bandmembers

I've deleted the musicians who were never official members of the band and cleaned up some of the membership dates. ScottSwan 08:55, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brad Delp

Brad Delp was a great guy, and it is very depressing to me that he died. But, put a link to Brad Delp's page to explain the details of the suicide. The section about his death is too long here. --71.224.19.29 15:55, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, move that section to the Brad Delp page. MH 07:59, 27 March 2007 (UTC)