As a band who’ve been absolutely dedicated to their music since their 2013 inception, Boston Manor have previously toured with the likes of Knuckle Puck, Moose Blood and This Wild Life and have played festivals such as Slam Dunk and 2000trees in front of significant and enthused masses. A decidedly melancholic composition, it’s a song about inevitable failure knowing you’re going to lose before you’ve even begun.Ī tour supporting Moose Blood comes immediately after the record’s release and Boston Manor have also now announced their first full UK and European headline tour in November and December, with Can’t Swim set to support them. Produced by Neil Kennedy (Milk Teeth, Creeper, More Than Life) and mixed by Kyle Black (New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, All Time Low), the first song to be revealed from the record, along with its own music video, is ‘Laika’. Supported By: Can’t Swim + Wallflower + Catch Fireīlackpool’s Boston Manor have announced their highly anticipated debut album ‘Be Nothing’ will be released on 30 th September 2016 via Pure Noise Records.He is told: There will always be Boston fans. I just thought I should share it now, while there are still fans." But the original was sitting here, covered, and I am sure there are a lot of people still interested in it, even though it's 40 years later. Funny thing is, I bought two of the albums and had them framed. "I've had that artwork in my extra bedroom for almost 40 years, and, really, what good is it doing sitting in the bedroom?" Norman says. He always intended to display it somewhere in his home. He also never expected Epic Records to return the painting once he turned it in to Boston's label, which infamously rushed Scholz to finish the band's second record (hence its abbreviated runtime). Norman says now he only got the gig when the original artist fell ill his rep knew a guy who knew a guy. Estimated to sell for upwards of $7,000, bidding already has surpassed the $12,000 mark … though, given its place in the pantheon, it's likely to go much, much higher during the home stretch. He has the original Don't Look Back artwork, too, though not for much longer: Heritage Auctions is thrilled to offer Norman's acrylic-and-airbrushed Don't Look Back original in the Dallas-based house's April 30 Illustration Art Signature Auction. Norman has some pictures of him standing in front of that epic ad. "Thrilled me to death," he says of that moment. In the summer of '78, as Brad Delp yelped those lyrics that smelled like teen spirit, Norman's work was everywhere – especially on the Sunset Strip, blown up on a billboard that hovered over Hollywood. But it was Norman who finally and successfully piloted that upside-down guitar spaceship, which bears the band's iconic logo, over a valley of crystals beneath a deep-blue sky.īoys not yet men hung that poster on their bedroom walls and wore it across their chests like some superhero's emblem. As with everything Boston, the concept came from songwriter, guitarist and technician Tom Scholz, who made one guitar sound like an army of them and could spend years making a few minutes' worth of music. He played a small part in that history: Norman's name appears in Don't Look Back's credits, as its cover artist. "I'm not really a music historian," Norman said after listening to that brief highlight reel of Boston's second record. Or that Don't Look Back was among the very first CDs released upon the format's debut in the early 1980s. 1 on the Billboard charts, a feat not even achieved by Boston's self-titled 1976 debut, which featured the immortal "More Than a Feeling." Or that its title track, powered by a guitar riff still catchy like a cold, was a Top 5 pop hit. That album landed in four million homes in just its first month of release, in August 1978, on its way to becoming one of the most beloved, best-selling and debated records of classic rock's defining decade.Īnd until April 2021, Norman had no idea just how popular Boston's Don't Look Back really was. Gary Norman painted just one album cover during his long career as a maker of commercial art and creator of toy prototypes.
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