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Paul Elliott

“On the first album I avoided doing a lot of cutting on the tape. The problem is, I always change my mind with an arrangement, so there’s always gonna have to be a razor blade handy”: The perfectionist rock legend who has made just six albums in 50 years

GuitaristTom Scholz of the rock group 'Boston' poses for a portrait in the studio in circa 1977.

Tom Scholz, the leader of multi-million-selling rock act Boston, is not a man to be hurried. It is now 50 years since the band’s self-titled debut album was released – and in all that time, Scholz has created just five more Boston albums.

He is an obsessive perfectionist who created that classic first album almost entirely alone in a home studio he designed and built himself in his basement. And as the sole constant in Boston’s long history, he has continued working in isolation and at a glacial pace.

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