Boston is the debut
studio album by
Boston-based American
rock band
Boston.
Produced by
Tom Scholz and
John Boylan, the album was released on August 25, 1976 in the United States by
Epic Records. Scholz had first begun playing music in the late 1960s after graduating from
MIT with a
master's degree, which led to a senior position at
Polaroid. After being involved in the Boston music scene for several years, Scholz concentrated on demos recorded in his apartment basement with singer
Brad Delp. His previous group, Mother's Milk, had received numerous rejection letters from major record labels in the early 1970s. By 1975, the demo tape had fallen into the hands of
CBS-owned Epic Records, who signed the band.