Boston Leader Demands Retraction From Singer's Ex-Wife

Boston Leader Demands Retraction From Singer's Ex-WifeLast week the ex-wife of Boston singer Brad Delp hinted that the band’s leader, Tom Scholz, was partially to blame for her ex-husband suicide. Now Scholz has demanded that Micki Delp “retract” statements she made to the Boston Herald, the Herald reports. He told the Associated Press on Thursday that he believes he is being unfairly blamed for Delp’s suicide.In an interview with the Herald last week, Micki Delp said, “No one can possibly understand the pressures he was under. Brad lived his life to please everyone else. He would go out of his way and hurt himself before he would hurt somebody else, and he was in such a predicament professionally that no matter what he did, a friend of his would be hurt. Rather than hurt anyone else, he would hurt himself. That’s just the kind of guy he was.”Micki Delp said that Brad Delp was distraught because his longtime friend, singer Fran Cosmo, was dropped from the group’s upcoming summer tour. But Scholz says that was not the case. “The decision to rehearse without the Cosmos was a group decision,” Scholz said in a statement to the Herald. “Brad never expressed unhappiness with that decision . . . and took an active part in arranging the vocals for five people, not seven.”Micki Delp is the sister of former Boston guitarist Barry Goudreau’s wife, Connie. Goudreau and other original members of Boston (not including Brad Delp) had a falling out with Scholz in the early ‘80s; By 1991 Scholz was the only original member in the band. Delp sang on a Boston song that was part of a greatest hits package in 1997, rejoined the group and sang on the 2002 album Corporate America.Scholz told the Associated Press that Delp was his “closest friend and collaborator in music for over 35 years.” He told the news service he was crushed by Delp’s suicide, and upset about not invited to his funeral. Delp was found dead at his Atkinson, New Hampshire home by his fiancée, Pamela Sullivan, on the morning of Friday, March 9. Delp had sealed himself inside the bathroom with two charcoal grills; he committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, according to toxicology tests.To read the Boston Herald story:http://thetrack.bostonherald.com/moreTrack/view.bg?articleid=188828&format=&page=1