More Than a Feeling

This is the first track off of Boston’s self-titled debut album, which describes the emotions that the singer is going through when he hears a particular song that takes him back to his memories of Marianne. More Than a Feeling is a song by the rock band Boston, released as the lead single from their eponymous debut album on Epic Records in September 1976, with "Smokin'" on the flipside. The single peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. The track has become a staple of classic rock radio and is ranked as #500 on the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and in 2009 it was named the 39th best hard rock song of all time by VH1. Tom Scholz told Maximum Guitar. There actually is a Marienne. She wasn’t my girlfriend … when I was a little kid, I think I was maybe eight or nine, I had a much older cousin who I thought was just the most beautiful girl that I’d ever seen.Her name was Marienne. Epic flat out rejected it and sent me an insulting letter. I have that letter framed now, but it said that there was nothing new about this music, and they were in no way interested. Then later, someone went through the proper political channels with Epic and all of a sudden, they were interested. Still, we didn’t get signed until they heard ‘More Than a Feeling.’