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...I see my Marianne walk away. From the very first stylistic, clean, pseudo-acoustic guitar riffs to the all out ripping guitar backed synthesizer rolls,"More than a Feeling" was obviously something very different. Released in late Summer of 1976, the self-titled debut album of "Boston" was definitely something very different. Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder had Top 10 albums, while David Bowie and the Ramones were ushering in the New-Wave/Punk sound that would share radio space for the next several years with the Bee Gees and the short-lived disco sound. It is no wonder then, that an album created by a group of MIT engineers would usher in the cleanly-produced and highly-engineered "Corporate Rock Era", which would feature such standard acts as Journey, Kansas, Fleetwood Mac, and, of course, a rock-and-roll band out of Boston. Still, before the release of "Boston", rock was dead. In a possible effort to prove it, the 1976 Grammy for Album of