This is how the story goes.

The band was formed in Boston Massachusetts in the early 70s and they did what all young bands did – live out of their car, not make any real cash, just enjoyed the adventure of forming a band and seeing the countryside.

They worked pretty hard at playing and writing and after a while they started to develop a name for themselves with people actually waiting in line at gigs and starting to recognise the band’s name.

What the band discovered was being on stage was pretty awesome and making music was better than just about anything.

One night when they were playing a gig in Rhode Island, a cigar-smokin’, Cadillac-drivin’ record exec offered them a record deal and promised to get them air-time on the radio.

It all worked out quite well with the song finishing with the entire stadium of fans going wild as the greatest rock song you’ve never heard comes to an end.

The song is called Rock & Roll Band by Boston and it tells the story of the band’s rise to stardom and does so in a mere 177 seconds (or 2:57 minutes)! Am I right in suspecting you’ve never heard it?

It is one of coolest rock tracks – guitars, drums and the unmistakeable vocals of the late Brad Delp, it all comes to together in one of crispest rock tunes of the 1970s.

It’s not exactly a true story as the band did endure years of rejection before they landed a record deal and then went on to become one of the highest-selling debut artists with 17 million sales of their first album.  This first album of course included the classic More Than A Feeling which I suspect you have heard a few hundred times.

From me it gets 4.5 guitars out of five.  Enjoy.