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Rock band Yes finds fill-in lead singer on YouTube

USA Today (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008

Two weekends ago, Benoit David sang Yes songs with Close to the Edge, a tribute band he has fronted for 14 years. Now he's rehearsing ...

“Stop Using My Song, Republicans!”: A Guide to Disgruntled Rockers

Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

Photo: Getty Since 1984, when Bruce Springsteen took umbrage to Ronald Reagan’s use of “Born in the U.S.A.,” there’s been a long history of presidential candidates taking a brow-beating from musicians who don’t want their work used as an endorsement. This election season has been full of rockers getting hot under the collar at the thought [...]

And Now, a Few Moments of Prog Rock

The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008

I read over the weekend that Yes is going on with its scheduled fall tour even though original lead singer Jon Anderson is unable to participate while recovering from a recent illness. The other members of the band have hired the lead singer of a Yes tribute band to stand in for him. (Anderson is [...]

10 Overplayed Songs on Classic Rock Radio

Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008

We'd like to welcome back Sleepy Floyd for this week's B List ... One of the most degrading jobs in the world, aside from greeter at Best Buy, has got to be the classic rock DJ. Playing a pre-programmed format, day after day – the same Rush songs followed by the same Foreigner songs followed by the same 38 Special songs followed by the same Boston songs. The only thing more boring than working a tollbooth...

Corrections and clarifications, August 15, 2008

Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008

A photo and caption on Page 30 of Friday's Showtime indicated that Brad Delp would perform with the band Boston on Thursday at the Hard Rock Live. Delp died in 2007.

A ladder to escape Home Depot

New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008

Boston recruits unknown singer for tour Tommy DeCarlo, a credit manager at a North Carolina Home Depot, was so moved by Boston's singer Brad Delp's death last year that he wrote a song about it for his MySpace page. Boston guitarist Tom Scholz was so moved by it that he asked DeCarlo to perform at a memorial for Delp last August, then, after meeting him, asked if he'd be interested in joining Boston...

Meet The New Press - Podcast for 8/2/08

GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008

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Boston is Now Considered "[Music] of The Devil"

ShoutWire.com (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

Anyone else here like More Than A Feeling? You better not, because you're going straight to hell, to burn eternally with Brad Delp, according to this 'Christian' asshole.

Boston/Styx

Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008

Back in high school during the '90s, we used to ride around in a sweet old red Fiero listening to classic-rock mix discs. Boston was a staple—particularly on the CD mix of songs all over seven minutes in length; that meant “Foreplay (Long Time),” of course. I loved every minute (...

YouTube: The New Way to Find a Sound-alike Lead Singer

Portfolio.com: The Tech Observer (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008

Kevin Maney sees a trend: First I see that the old band Boston is going on tour with a 43-year-old Home Depot clerk who can sing exactly like late lead singer Brad Delp. Then I read in Rolling Stone that Journey has been touring with a middle-aged Filipino who'd been fronting a cover band but happens to sound exactly like former Journey wailer Steve Perry. In both cases, the band accidentally ran...

“It’s some guy in North Carolina singing your songs”

Confused of Calcutta (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008

I just love this story. Tommy de Carlo, a 43 year old Home Depot credit manager in North Carolina, lifelong fan of Boston, is heartbroken when Brad Delp, the lead singer, committed suicide last year. So he sings his heart out on a bunch of tracks, uploads them to his MySpace page as “tribute”, and [...]

Shop worker lands job as Boston lead singer

Nothing To Do With Arbroath (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008

For 43 years Tommy DeCarlo has been a man of simple pleasures. By day he was a credit manager at Home Depot, the American equivalent of B&Q;, while his idea of a big night was a trip to the cinema, a pizza parlour or an evening singing karaoke in his bedroom to the tunes of his favourite rock band, Boston. But now, after the kind of fairy tale usually found only in the lyrics of a pop song,...

• Shop worker lands job as Boston lead singer - The Telegraph

Five Average Joes That Became Famous

The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008

by Jason Plautz, Northwestern Tommy De Carlo Boston, the rock band behind “More Than a Feeling” and four multi-platinum albums, is one of the biggest acts in music history. Tommy De Carlo, meanwhile, was just a store manager at Home Depot and was a hit singing at his grandparents’ anniversary party. Now De Carlo is singing lead [...]

Another Rock n Roll Cinderella Story

art is the new religion (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008

I have another plucked-from-the-online-masses rock n' roll success story to share with you. Borrowing some inspiration from the way Journey found their current lead singer, the rock group Boston found their new singer - a fan from Charlotte, North Carolina - when they ran across his MySpace page. Tommy DeCarlo , a manager at Home Depot, is a 43 year old father of two and a Boston superfan...

From Fan to Frontman: Tommy DeCarlo and Boston

Bostonist (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008

Bostonist loves stories that prove that the internet is useful for more than virtual poker and porn, and this one's a doozy. When legendary local band Boston lost their frontman, Brad Delp, to suicide last year, lifelong Boston fan Tommy DeCarlo wanted to pay tribute to how much the band's music meant to him. So his daughter created a MySpace page of him singing karaoke to a few of the band's hits....