Shop worker lands job as Boston lead singer

For 43 years Tommy DeCarlo has been a man of simple pleasures.

By day he was a credit manager at Home Depot, the American equivalent of B&Q, while his idea of a big night was a trip to the cinema, a pizza parlour or an evening singing karaoke in his bedroom to the tunes of his favourite rock band, Boston.



But now, after the kind of fairy tale usually found only in the lyrics of a pop song, DeCarlo is about to start his new job: lead singer with the same legendary group, whose hit song More Than a Feeling fuelled album sales of 50 million worldwide.

Three decades after the 12‑year-old Tommy bought the first Boston album, the band, mourning the suicide in March last year of Brad Delp, their original frontman, heard the middle-aged father's singing on the internet – and promptly hired him.

Tommy's MySpace page.