It might interest you to know that between the second and third albums by the group Boston, there was a 7 year gap!

Tom Scholz and the group started recording the album “Third Stage” in 1980, but then they broke up.

That doesn’t mean that Tom stopped working on it. In fact, he put in about 12,000 hours of of studio time on new material over the next few years.

One of the songs he worked on heavily was “Amanda,” which was destined to become a Great Song of 1986–but not without a major problem.

In 1984, a bootleg copy of “Amanda” was released to a few radio stations who began playing it under the stipulation that they wouldn’t report it

to the trade magazines for national chart listings.Why? Because Boston was still under contract with Epic records..and bootlegs were were considered to                             be breach of contract.

Well, of course somebody tattled…and it took 2 years to clean up the legal mess.

But the story has a happy ending. In 1986, Tom reformed Boston with some new personell, signed a new record contract with MCA Records,

and FINALLY released “Third Stage” with “Amanda” as the lead single.

Te wait was over…and Amanda became Boston’s first–and only–#1 hit, topping the Hot 100 in the US and the Top 40 in Canada! It was well worth the wait…                   and the trouble!