Tom Scholz spent five years writing and perfecting Boston’s “More Than a Feeling” largely in isolation, using his electronics expertise to create its huge stadium-rock sound. The unusual approach helped produce a landmark track that sold more than one million copies and established Boston as a major band.

The song reflects how music can revive memories of particular people and moments, focusing on a lost love named Marianne. Scholz borrowed the name from a cousin he secretly admired as a child, although the song’s emotional content came from a later, non-related romance; he described it as a “bittersweet ballad”.