More Than a Feeling

"More Than a Feeling"
Single by Boston
from the album Boston
B-side"Smokin'"
ReleasedSeptember 1976
RecordedOctober 1975 – April 1976
StudioFoxglove (Watertown, Massachusetts)
GenreHard rock · pop rock
Length
  • 4:45 (album version)
  • 3:25 (single edit/video version)
LabelEpic
SongwriterTom Scholz
Producers
Boston singles chronology
"More Than a Feeling"
(1976)
"Long Time"
(1977)
Music video
"More Than a Feeling (Single edit)" on YouTube

"More Than a Feeling" is a song by the American rock band Boston, released as the lead single from the band's 1976 debut album Boston by Epic Records in September 1976, with "Smokin'" as the B-side. Tom Scholz wrote the song. It entered the US Billboard Hot 100 on September 18 and peaked at number 5. The track is now a staple of classic rock radio, and in 2008, it was named the 39th-best hard rock song of all time by VH1. It was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lists of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll" and was ranked number 212 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list in 2021, updated from its previous position of number 500 on the 2004 version.