Who was it who had a hit single and he recorded it at home (American)?

[NevieSticks]

and sung all the lyrics and overlaid all the instrument tracks ? It would have been 1980s? A song in the same vein as Foreigner, Asia, Mister Mister etc? It's doing my head in trying to find it.

More than a feeling? By Boston.

Correct. MIT graduate Tom Schulz recorded most of Boston’s eponymous debut album in the basement of his Watertown, Massachusetts home.

Thank you so much both of you! This is it. I can tell my H now 😀

I only knew this fact because there was a tv program about record albums at the weekend and it mentioned this! Think it was on BBC4?

It was probably that programme that I watched before.