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"All we wanted was to stamp out Queen and Aerosmith": Inspired by Keith Moon and Star Trek, Come Sail Away took Styx to places they never expected

A song about being picked up and taken away by aliens, Come Sail Away gave Styx a career boost and eventually took on a life of its own

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“Surely the most versatile version yet, putting different flavours of gourmet crunch on the menu”: DOD 250 Overdrive/Preamp 50th Anniversary review

A stone-cold pedalboard classic celebrates 50 trips round the sun with a collectable edition that reminds us what the fuss is about

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“Keep your eyes on this man”: Nuno Bettencourt joins Steven Tyler for a mini-set of Aerosmith, Extreme classics at charity gig – and, wait, is that a Les Paul?

Backing Tyler and some of his A-list friends at a fundraiser for the Janie’s Fund foundation at the Hollywood Palladium, the Extreme virtuoso ditched his signature Washburn

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Steven Tyler returns to stage for first time since Aerosmith's retirement from touring

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler returned to the stage on Sunday (02.02.25) at his sixth annual Jam for Janie Grammy Awards Viewing Party, which marked his second performance since a vocal injury that called time on the band's touring.

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"This is one of my favourite songs in the whole world": Watch Steven Tyler return to the stage with Nuno Bettencourt and Mick Fleetwood

The reported Aerosmith reunion failed to materialise, but this year's Jam for Janie show was still an all-star affair

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“When I read stories about guys who snorted everything they had, I said, ‘That‘ll never happen to me.’ But in the end I blew 20 million”: The wild story of Aerosmith’s spectacular 1980s fall and rise

They started the 80s in drug-addled disarray and ended it bigger than ever

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Aerosmith to reunite for a performance at Steven Tyler's charity event

Aerosmith look set to reunite for a performance at frontman Steven Tyler's Jam for Janie Grammy Awards Viewing Party next month, after the group called time on touring in August.

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Aerosmith are heading back to the stage - but it's for one night only

Boston legends Aerosmith will play at a charity event early next month

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“Whenever I’d see him play live it was an off-the-rack Strat. He was never one to say, ‘I’ve got to play that’”: Joe Perry says he was planning to take Jeff Beck’s Strat on tour with Aerosmith –but its owner was the only special thing about it

The Aerosmith great been discussing friendship with the late, great Beck – and says he almost took his Strat on tour last year, before the shows were cancelled

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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including Skunk Anansie, Billy F Gibbons, Thundermother and five other storm bringers and lightning riders

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“Our best friends were drug dealers. We identified with them because we felt like outcasts, menaces to society”: The chaotic story of Aerosmith’s early years

The birth of American rock’s original Crazy Gang

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“I was doing a gig, I dropped the pick, and I was drunk. I was afraid if I bent over to pick it up, I'd fall. So I played the rest of the show without the pick and started to really like it’”: What Jeff Beck told his friend Joe Perry

Beck’s guitars are up for auction this week

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"Being sober was a real different experience from a band that was always wrecked": How Mötley Crüe cleaned up and made their biggest album

Drugged up, boozed up and almost washed up, Mötley Crüe went into rehab, came out and recorded a classic of the late-80s LA metal scene: Nikki Sixx takes us back

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“Allthe labels said, ‘You’re dated.’ If weweren’t doing so well, it would have beencrushing, but we were playing tosold-out crowds”: How forgotten ’80s heroes Zebra earned their stripes as the people’s power-trio

Led by singer/guitarist Randy Jackson, Zebra kept the spirit of Zeppelin, Hendrix and Cream alive. These days, family man Jackson is busy shaping up the group’s first album in two decades

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“Maybe Aerosmith will do something in the future, but it’s a big ‘if’ – the last thing I want to be doing is to try and push Steven in that direction”: Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton gives update on frontman Steven Tyler’s health

Hamilton doesn't rule out Aerosmith returning back to the live circuit despite Tyler's recent voice problems

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Aerosmith's Tom Hamilton says the rock band could 'do something' in the future if frontman Steven Tyler so desires

Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton says he hasn't completely ruled future projects with the band following their retirement from the road.

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“Our manager started making up rumours that I was back on heroin and the band were breaking up”: How Aerosmith defied grunge and a giant meteor to become bigger than ever in the 1990s

Aerosmith were huge in the 70s and 80s - but the 1990s was their most successful decade ever

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“I knew in my heart there was no way I would say no, but I had butterflies. It would be the first time I ever did something outside of Aerosmith”: That time Tom Hamilton ended up playing bass for Thin Lizzy

The bassist handled Phil Lynott’s parts during a 2016/17 anniversary tour – a gig he got after meeting members of the new-look lineup at a Motörhead concert

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“I said, 'We don't do that. We don't steal stuff.' I always felt bad about it”: How Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry acquired Jeff Beck's fuzz pedal - and what he did to pay him back

The trouble started with a light-fingered tour manager…

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“We drank a lot because of the blow and we got blown a lot because we drank a lot”: The wired story of Aerosmith’s drug-fuelled classic Rocks

The drugs really were working for Aerosmith on 1976’s classic Rocks album

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Aerosmith out - Muppets in: Disney World rebrand the ‘Rock N’ Roller Coaster’ at their Florida theme park

Steven Tyler and co are making way for Kermit, Miss Piggy and the gang

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“The Janie’s Got a Gun solo had a ratty sound. I had a Chet Atkins signature guitar plugged into a 15-watt Marshall practice amp... the producer said, ‘It sounds terrible’”: Joe Perry on 50 years of Aerosmith, and what it takes to nail his “working tone”

As Aerosmith call timeon their stellar 50-year touring career, Perry joins us to reflect onwhathe’slearned about guitar along the way – the tones that work, the tones that don't, and the invaluable lesson he learned from Keith Richards

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"An irresistible combination of Aerosmith swagger and finely honed pop sensibilities": Ratt's best album Out Of The Cellar revived - just don't call it hair metal

The ultimate Ratt'N'Roll album returns

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“Slash and I could drink anyone under the table, but Arnold Schwarzenegger was a challenge. He was smoking and swearing all the time”: Duff McKagan’s wild tales of Iggy Pop, Aerosmith, Johnny Thunders and The Terminator

Boozing with Arnie, jamming with Iggy, ignoring Aerosmith’s phone calls – Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan has done it all and more

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“I’ve probably had an equal number of guitars stolen as what I’ve sold”: Joe Perry names the desert-island pickup that nobody talks about, explains why there are no bad tones, and makes an appeal for the cheap guitar he foolishly sold and wants back

Aerosmith and Hollywood Vampires’ swaggering six-stringer runs through his many exploits, leading a hundreds-strong collection of unique, vintage and always usable guitars

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