There are perfectionists, and then there is Tom Scholz – leader of rock band Boston and mastermind of the biggest selling debut album of the 1970s.
A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a creative vision born of manic obsession, Scholz has been portrayed as a kind of mad professor of rock. And in 1976, on Boston’s self-titled first album, it was his appliance of science that elevated arena rock to an art form.
