Brad Delp, the lead singer of Boston was found dead today at the age of 55. Photos and videos below. Read the story in Yahoo Music and Boston.com.
Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston, was found dead Friday in his home in southern New Hampshire. He was 55.
Atkinson police responded to a call for help at 1:20 p.m. and found Delp dead. Lt. William Baldwin said in a news release that there was no indication of foul play.
BandBoston.com the official Boston website says simply “We’ve just lost the nicest guy in rock and roll.”
Boston.org has the following statement:
“The nicest, kindest, most caring, down to earth rock star the world has ever known.
May you rest in Peace.”
Boston was one of my favorite bands growing up in high school. Couldn’t imagine a kegger party without “More than a Feeling” on high volume. Those were the days. As each voice from the past passes from this earth, a small part of our remaining innocence dies as well.
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March 10th, 2007 at 5:40 am
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March 10th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
My first memory of Brad Delp and Boston was in the Fall of 1976. I was a 16 year old teenager who loved Rock-N-Roll and was looking for meaning in a world gone insane. While looking through the albums in Lake Air Records (later Peppers Records) in Waco, Texas, one of the clerks came up to me and said, “You have to listen to this new group out of Boston!” He spun the vinyl and turned up the volume. I was immediately hooked and a fan for life! Tom Scholz’s electrifying guitar and heart felt lyrics and Brad Delp’s soothing yet piercing vocals were like messengers from a God that I didn’t think understood what we mere teenagers were going through. Through their music, Brad and Tom let us know that everything was going to be alright and that we were going to make it through the hard times in our lives. The amazing thing is that their music still gives me that reassurance now that I am in my late 40’s.
The debate album “Boston” and “Don’t Look Back” is the soundtrack of my high school and early college years. Anytime I get together with my friends from high school, it doesn’t take long for a Boston CD to be turned on. Boston is just simply part of us.
I experienced Boston live in concert two times. The first time was at the Texxas World Music Festival (Texas Jam) in Dallas, Texas on Saturday, June 9, 1979 and then at the Frank Irwin Center in Austin, Texas on Saturday, August 14, 2004. The band was simply amazing! It didn’t matter if it was a sold out crowd of over 80,000 screaming fans or a crowd of 7,000 aging adults trying to recapture a moment in time from our lost youth, the band simply loved to perform on stage together and for us. My wife Jamie said it best after the concert in 2004. She said that she had never seen a rock group that was so connected to their fans and truly appreciated their fans allowing them to continue to play for us after all these years.
I learned of Brad’s passing last night at about 9:00 p.m. It was a sad evening to say the least. I took my Boston CD’s out to my truck and sit and listened to them for over three hours. As I stared into the dashboard lights through moistened eyes, I remembered all the good times and sad times I had with friends and family while listening to Boston’s music. I remembered the last time I saw Brad on stage in 2004. It was at the end of the concert. He was smiling and clapping for us in the audience. He truly seemed to be a nice man and was having the time of his life.
I only hope that Brad truly understood how much he and the other members of Boston meant and still mean to us today. Brad, you will be truly missed, but always remembered each time “we hide in our music to forget the day.”