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I'm so bummed out. Boston is my all-time favorite band, and Brad Delp was such an extraordinary talent. RIP, Brad.




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.

"There was nothing disrupted in the house. He was a fairly healthy person from what we're able to ascertain," Police Chief Philip Consentino told WMUR-TV.

Delp apparently was alone at the time, Baldwin said.

The cause of death remained under investigation. Police said an incident report would not be available until Monday.

Delp sang on Boston's 1976 hits "More than a Feeling" and "Long Time." He also sang on Boston's most recent album, "Corporate America," released in 2002.

He joined the band in the early 1970s after meeting Tom Scholz, an MIT student interested in experimental methods of recording music, according to the group's official Web site. The band enjoyed its greatest success and influence during its first decade.

The band's last appearance was in November 2006 at Boston's Symphony Hall.

On Friday night, the Web site was taken down and replaced with the statement: "We just lost the nicest guy in rock and roll."

A call to the Swampscott, Mass., home of Boston guitarist Barry Goudreau was not immediately returned Friday night.

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RIP Brad. Man I loved that band. A LOT of very good memories have their music as part of the backdrop.

Wow...i just heard the song "Amanda" on the radio the other day...that's sad.

What a huge loss. I was lucky enough to see their first tour and it was one of the best shows I have ever seen. I'll be breakin' out all my Boston CD's today............
R.I.P. Brad

Thats said, Boston was a hugh part of my youth Boston was a make out tape...or was that a river fishing tape.....losing him is "More than a feeling"


I know pretty Corny....

Nice, clay.
I like you better when you're telling cat-shootin' stories.

I love Boston's stuff. This is a bit sad. I didn't know he was singing with them again, but I suppose britney must doiminate the entertainment news.

RIP

Thanks, beerdowner.

The 70s and early-80s were a great time for good solid rock bands. The boys looked like they were having fun on stage. Bands these days seem like they're all chronically-depressed heroin freaks. But maybe that's my age talking.

Scholtz isn't a phenom on the guitar, but he got some sweet sounds and could create good stuff on guitar.
More Than a Feeling is one of the most popular songs in rock history.

RIP Delp.

So Sad!

Boston was such a band!

Rest in peace Brad!

God bless man!

PEACE!

Thanks for the vid, beer. Sad to see Mr. Delp has passed - my prayers to his family.

so sad to hear.
he was one of my all time favorite vocalists.

I think anybody who liked rock in the late 70's, early 80's had a Boston album.

Sorry to hear the news.

This is a huge loss. They were one of my favorites.
Thanks for sharing Christy, I didn't know anything about this.

It was suicide. Sadder still.


CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The family of Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston, said his death was a suicide.
“He was a man who gave all he had to give to everyone around him, whether family, friends, fans or strangers,” the family said in a statement relayed by police Wednesday. “He gave as long as he could, as best he could, and he was very tired. We take comfort in knowing that he is now, at last, at peace.”
Delp, 55, died Friday at his Atkinson home. Fiancee Pamela Sullivan found him.
Toxicology tests by the state medical examiner’s office showed that Delp committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, said Lt. William Baldwin. Delp also left two notes taped to a door and letters to his family and Sullivan.
Baldwin said police do not know the contents of the letters.
The family’s statement said Sullivan, Delp’s children and their mother, Delp’s ex-wife Micki Delp, were grateful for the sympathy they had received.
Brad Delp joined Boston in the mid-1970s and sang two of its biggest hits, “More than a Feeling” and “Long Time.”
Delp had planned to marry Sullivan this summer during a break in a tour with Boston. A lifelong Beatles fan, Delp also played with a tribute band, Beatle Juice.
Beatle Juice performed a benefit last year to help build a new public library in Atkinson, a small town of about 6,000 residents on the Massachusetts border.
The family said last week it planned a private funeral followed by a public memorial to be scheduled later.

My brother hung himself Oct.22 2001,so I know what Brad Delp's family is going through.
Delp was one of those musicans who let his music talk for him. He didn't go out try to create headlines for himself.
With that said ,classic rock stations like WNCX,WONE around NE Ohio don't help matters by playing the same 2 songs from 70's headliners like Boston,Bob Segar, Kansas, Ted Nugent, Black Sabbath, Lynard Skynard,KISS and so forth....
these bands have extensive catalogs......
I can't stand to listen to those stations..very much stuck in a "time warp"

Classic rock stations are terrible for that... same two or three songs by an artist, the 'safe' ones.

Sorry about your brother. One of my best friends killed himself when I was 19. Suicide is still very much a taboo subject in society.