Amanda (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Amanda


Artist = Boston
from Album = Third Stage
Released = September 26, 1986
Format = CD
Genre = Rock
Length = 4:16
Label = MCA
Writer = Tom Scholz
Producer = Tom Scholz
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"Amanda" is a popular song by the American rock band Boston. "Amanda" features a mix of acoustic and electric guitars forming a love ballad, a type of song Boston doesn't typically perform. It also ended up being Boston's biggest hit single on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number one for two weeks in November 1986. The song was written in 1980, and appeared on their 1986 album "Third Stage".

Amanda is a relatively rare example of a song that reached #1 on the Top 100 in or after the 1980s without having a performance music video made for it. An interview for British television, made while the band was promoting the "Third Stage" album, does show a couple of minutes of a music video near the end. The band does not appear in that video, which intersperses shots of a model smiling for the camera with special effects footage of the band's spaceship logo flying over the Boston skyline. One shot, showing the animated spaceship almost colliding with the John Hancock Tower is now eeriely reminiscent of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bURBfRunr6s]