Brian Delp dies at 55

[DeBOG]

Lead singer of the band Boston dies

Lead singer of the band Boston dies

03/09/2007 11:37 PM, AP


Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston, was found dead Friday in his home in southern New Hampshire. He was 55.

Atkinson police responded to a call for help at 1:20 p.m. and found Delp dead. Lt. William Baldwin said in a news release that there was no indication of foul play.

"There was nothing disrupted in the house. He was a fairly healthy person from what we're able to ascertain," Police Chief Philip Consentino told WMUR-TV.

Delp apparently was alone at the time, Baldwin said.

The cause of death remained under investigation. Police said an incident report would not be available until Monday.

Delp sang on Boston's 1976 hits "More than a Feeling" and "Long Time." He also sang on Boston's most recent album, "Corporate America," released in 2002.

He joined the band in the early 1970s after meeting Tom Scholz, an MIT student interested in experimental methods of recording music, according to the group's official Web site. The band enjoyed its greatest success and influence during its first decade.

The band's last appearance was in November 2006 at Boston's Symphony Hall.

On Friday night, the Web site was taken down and replaced with the statement: "We just lost the nicest guy in rock and roll."

A call to the Swampscott, Mass., home of Boston guitarist Barry Goudreau was not immediately returned Friday night.

I was not a huge Boston fan, but their debut album was one of the best albums in rock and roll. Hopefully his cause of death won't show up as drug or any other type of substance abuse. Rock and roll doesn't need anymore of those.

RIP

[NUN-PUNCHER]

Yeah, but you need to die of Drugs or Suicide in order to drive Album Sales after your death. Obviously, Delp didn't care about the future of his band Boston if he comes up clean.

[BoyEngland]

Not that I know who he or his band is/was, there was an article on the RoadRunner homepage saying they found a suicide note on him.

Originally Posted by KATHARINE WEBSTER - Associated Press Writer

ATKINSON, N.H.(AP) Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston who killed himself last week, left behind a note in which he called himself "a lonely soul," according to police reports released Thursday.

The note was paper-clipped to the neck of Delp's shirt when police found his body at his Atkinson home, on the bathroom floor, his head on a pillow. He had sealed himself inside with two charcoal grills; toxicology tests showed he had committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

"Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul," the note read.

Just so you know.

[Negative Creep]

Originally Posted by NUN-PUNCHER

Yeah, but you need to die of Drugs or Suicide in order to drive Album Sales after your death. Obviously, Delp didn't care about the future of his band Boston if he comes up clean.

You heartless jerk...

But you are right about the album sales of a musician increasing after they meet their demise via drugs or suicide... nothing sells more than controversy.