Australian singles chart:
More Than a Feeling entered the Kent Music Report on 29 November 1976 and peaked at #11.
Album:
The song is on Boston which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 20 December 1976 and peaked at #16.
Songwriter:
Tom Scholz
Producers:
John Boylan, Tom Scholz, Rodney C. Thompson
Record label of Australian release:
Epic
Album version:
Songfacts:
Group leader Tom Scholz wrote this song, which is about a guy who wakes up with the blahs, turns on some music, and gets lost in reverie dreaming of his days with Marianne. “It was written about a fantasy event,” he told Entertainment Weekly of the song. “But it’s one that almost everybody can identify with, of somebody losing somebody that was important to them, and music taking them back there.”
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/boston/more-than-a-feeling
Lyrics:
I looked out this morning and the sun was gone
Turned on some music to start my day
I lost myself in a familiar song
I closed my eyes and I slipped away
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