“Amanda” was a defining song for Boston. Frontman and founder Tom Scholz wrote the song solo six years before it saw the light of day in 1986. Released as the lead single off the band’s ...

In addition, the power ballad “Amanda” became their first-ever chart-topping single. Boston, and its fastidious creator, famously made their fans wait for the band’s signature sound.

Amanda Daly Berman is a part-time faculty member in the Music Department at Boston College's Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences.

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