Bostonist loves stories that prove that the internet is useful for more than virtual poker and porn, and this one's a doozy. When legendary local band Boston lost their frontman, Brad Delp, to suicide last year, lifelong Boston fan Tommy DeCarlo wanted to pay tribute to how much the band's music meant to him. So his daughter created a MySpace page of him singing karaoke to a few of the band's hits.
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What moved you to speak out this year? A Lite Brite giving you the finger? The Red Sox? The death of Mr. Butch?
In his will, Delp left his home in Atkinson, New Hampshire, to another ex-girlfriend, Patricia Komor. According to everyone who knows Delp, he hadn't seen Komor in 11 years.
We're guessing most of you are hungover from St. Patrick's Day. We are too. But still, we're going to muddle on through our green haze and give you (drum roll please...) this Week In -ists. We start with SFist which broke the -ist record for comments with nearly 500 comments on a post about our Mayor's girlfriend. She responded back on charges that she's not a "girl's girl" and, whoo boy-- the floodgates? They...
With news coming out last week that Brad Delp had passed, and more news this week that indicates his death was actually a suicide, we got to thinking about some other Boston music icons that left us too soon. Mark Sandman comes to mind, a 1999 heart attack took the Morphine front man at age 46. This Friday Flashback is a look at Morphine's 1997 video for "Early to Bed."
The Brad Delp story continues. Delp's family announced today that his death wasn't as quiet as it first appeared. Delp killed himself last week.
As you probably guessed from Bostonist's comment thread, there are many fans of the late Boston singer Brad Delp, who died last Friday. Non-Boston papers are offering their evaluation of Delp's contribution to music. The LA Weekly offered a perfect analysis of Delp's skills, which somehow managed to be distinct and anonymous at the same time: Most of us wouldn’t recognize Delp from a photo, yet his vocal frequencies have been burned into the American...
A brief report appeared tonight indicating that the lead singer of Boston, Brad Delp, died this afternoon, taking his unmistakable voice with him. He was 55.
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