“Peace of Mind” by Boston

"Peace of Mind" rides on Boston's 1976 debut album, but Tom Scholz had it written before anybody handed the band a contract. It was one of six songs he worked up in his basement across 1974 and 1975, and the demo was finished in 1974, so fully formed that the album version mostly just cranked up the guitars and the production. Jim Masdea worked out the original drum parts, though Sib Hashian is the one behind the kit on the finished record.

Epic put it out in 1977 as the album's third and last single, and it only crept to 38 on the Hot 100. The charts were never the point, though: radio grabbed it when the album first hit and has kept it in heavy circulation ever since, one of those fixtures rock stations simply can't do without.

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