Don't Look Back (Boston album)

Don't Look Back
Studio album by
Boston
ReleasedAugust 15, 1978[1]
Recorded1977–1978
Studio
Genre
Length33:46
LabelEpic
ProducerTom Scholz
Boston chronology
Boston
(1976) 		Don't Look Back
(1978) 		Third Stage
(1986)
Singles from Don't Look Back
  1. "Don't Look Back"
    Released: August 1978
  2. "A Man I'll Never Be"
    Released: November 1978 [2]
  3. "Feelin' Satisfied"
    Released: March 1979 [3]

Don't Look Back is the second studio album by American rock band Boston, released in 1978 by Epic Records, as the band's last album on the label.[4][5] The album reached No. 1 in both the US and Canada, and No. 9 in the UK. The title track helped with the album's success, reaching No. 4 in 1978 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and remains one of the band's biggest hits. The album sold over one million copies in the ten days following its release and was certified 7× platinum by the RIAA in the US on April 11, 1996.[6]

The album's two-year gap from its predecessor marks the shortest between two of the band's studio albums to date; guitarist, producer and primary songwriter Tom Scholz claimed that Epic executives pushed him and the band into releasing the album before they felt it was ready. He also felt that the album "was ridiculously short".[citation needed] Their next album, Third Stage, was not released for another eight years, by which time the band and record label had parted ways and fought a courtroom battle that Boston ultimately won.

  1. ^ "RIAA certifications". Recording Industry Association of America.
  2. ^ "Boston singles".
  3. ^ "Boston singles".
  4. ^ Sendra, Tim. "Boston" Don't Look Back > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved November 2, 2010. It was produced by Tom Scholz.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference notes1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "American album certifications – Boston – Don't Look Back". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved January 10, 2010.