Paul Simon (1986):Nobody's done more for world music than Simon, who enlisted South African musicians to liven his greatest solo LP. 'Graceland' is a joyous, super-catchy collection of songs about growing up, growing old and seizing the moment. Forget the controversy; this is music to ge...
With the first version dropping in November 2005, the franchise is set to release the fifth installation, "Guitar Hero: Aerosmith," in June 2008 [source: Activision]. Although most attribute the idea for Guitar Hero to the brothers Kai and Charles Huang, founders of the video game company ...
then just around 17 years old, appeared in three Aerosmith music videos. The first of the bunch was "Cryin'," which debuted on MTV in 1993. Next up was the video for the power ballad, "Amazing" later that year, and last was "Crazy" in 1994, perIMDb. Silverstone was credited as "...
he would really play that riff, because he loved that song. They were so supportive and so cool. We were like, “Man, this is amazing.” Because we’d grown up listening to AC/DC, Aerosmith, Rolling Stones,Led Zeppelin, all of these bands, on top of all of the punk rock...
Orange Krush’s drummer Trevor Gale remembered the dynamic like this (as quoted in Geoff Edgers’Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever): “Larry was the guy who said, 'Play four bars, stop on the fifth bar, come back in on the fourth bea...
Aerosmith (1989):After spending the first half of the '80s barely visible, Aerosmith staged a comeback with 1987's 'Permanent Vacation.' But it's 1989's 'Pump' that sealed it. The slickly produced but hook-stuffed album kicked off the band's most commercially successful era, culminating ...
Today, the 104-year-oldFeast of the Blessed Sacramentis the largest Portuguese festival in the world. It reflects both the size and the identity of the Portuguese-American population in New England. Two great waves of Portuguese immigration gave Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island the denses...
Steven Tyler (70, lead vocalist of Aerosmith): I’m going on my fourth run. So I’ve got nine years in December. Which I’m very proud of. Julien Baker (23, Memphis-bred singer-songwriter): At this point in my life, I don’t use any substances, I don’t smoke, I don’t dri...
Armageddon, starring Affleck,Bruce Willis,Liv Tyler,Billy BobThorntonandAerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," couldn't help but make a deeper impact than…well, thanDeep Impact. "If you don't [develop the characters], then you're just left with a bunch of physical action that'...
Cinderella (1990):Cinderella moved toward grittier, guttier, Aerosmith- and Stones-influenced fare with their third album, turning an assumption about the band as just another contemporary hard rock act on its ear. 'Heartbreak Station' fell well behind the sales marks of its immediate predecessors...