"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 Stagealbum, 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 shows the
animated spaceship almost colliding with the John Hancock
Tower.