Tommy DeCarlo, Boston fan who became the band's lead singer, dies at 60

Tommy DeCarlo, a longtime instrumentality of Boston who became the classical stone band’s pb vocalist successful the precocious 2000s, has died. He was 60.

DeCarlo died Monday pursuing a conflict with encephalon cancer, his household announced connected Facebook.

“[H]e fought with unthinkable spot and courageousness close up until the precise end,” the family’s connection said. “During this hard time, we kindly inquire that friends and fans respect our family’s privateness arsenic we grieve and enactment 1 another.”

Born April 23, 1965, successful Utica, N.Y., DeCarlo said helium archetypal started listening to Boston — the 1970s stone set known for its instrumental overtures and hits including “More Than a Feeling,” “Don’t Look Back” and “Peace of Mind” — arsenic a young teenager, according to the group’s website. The vocalist credited his emotion for Boston’s archetypal frontman Brad Delp and his tendency to sing on with him connected the vigor for helping to make his ain singing voice.

After Delp’s decease successful 2007, DeCarlo, past a manager astatine a Home Depot, sent a nexus to his MySpace leafage filled with Boston covers arsenic good arsenic an archetypal opus successful tribute to Delp to the Boston camp, hoping for a accidental to enactment successful a tribute amusement for the singer. They kindly turned down his offer.

But eventually, Boston laminitis and pb songwriter Tom Scholz heard DeCarlo’s screen of “Don’t Look Back” and invited the vocalist to execute a fewer songs with the set astatine the tribute. That tribute amusement would beryllium DeCarlo’s archetypal clip ever performing with immoderate set successful beforehand of a crowd, but it wouldn’t beryllium his last. He continued to execute with the set astatine unrecorded shows for years, and adjacent joined them connected immoderate tracks for their 2013 album, “Life, Love & Hope.”

DeCarlo besides formed the set Decarlo with his son, guitarist Tommy DeCarlo Jr. In October, the vocalist announced helium was stepping distant from performing owed to “unexpected wellness issues.”

“[P]erforming and sharing euphony with each of you astir the satellite has been 1 of the top joys of my life,” DeCarlo wrote successful his Facebook post. “I can’t convey you each capable for the unthinkable love, support, and knowing you’ve shown maine and my household during this time. It genuinely means the satellite to us.”