“The music business attracts the lowest form of life!”: How the leader of a multi-million selling rock band took on the industry and won!

Tom Scholz.

In August 1976, Epic Records launched Boston’s self-titled debut album with a bold advertising slogan: “Better music through science.” Tom Scholz, the group’s leader, guitarist and songwriter, thought that was bullshit.

Scholz was no ordinary rock musician. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was still employed as a product design engineer for the Polaroid Corporation when the Boston album was released.