Joey Kramer, a drummer from the Bronx, came up with the band name Aerosmith in high school, and wrote it all over his notebooks long before he started the band that would eventually bear that name.
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When Aerosmith released their self-titled debut album in January of 1973, they were understandably, still figuring out who ...
Our list of Aerosmith Album Opening Songs Ranked shows that over the course of a 50-year career filled with ups and downs, they never forgot how to make a grand entrance. From their humble origins as ...
Truth be told, neither Aerosmith nor Springsteen captured their raw, ragged, rock 'n' roll essence on their debut albums.
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Aerosmith scores a hit album and song in America, as the rock ...
As 1977 rolled in, Aerosmith were flying high. In January, the band’s latest single Walk This Way, belatedly extracted from 1975 album Toys In The Attic, hit No.10 in the US. And in February, when ...
Aerosmith didn’t score their first No. 1 hit until 1998, but they were a successful group for years before this. Their first album had a tepid reception from critics and the general public in 1973, ...
They were both born to rock. Fate brought Steven Tyler’s Aerosmith and Bruce Springsteen together to record their classic third albums side by side at the Record Plant in Midtown Manhattan. That’s ...
Aerosmith are a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band with an impressive catalog of hit songs and well regarded albums, but the journey was not always easy for the group. In a career-spanning new interview ...