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Biography:Peter Buck from the band "R.E.M." once put it as well as anyone: "If you grew up in the '70s, you liked "Aerosmith"." Boasting a raw, rollicking sound that fully Americanized the blues-rock hybrid created by "the Rolling Stones" and a swaggering, witty charisma that was all their own, "Aerosmith" was one of the best and most popular hard rock bands of the 1970s. Few performers had as impressive a rise and as dramatic a fall -- and fewer still would rise again to such remarkable heights.

The "Aerosmith" story began in 1969, when "Steven Tyler" (born Steven Tallarico on March 26, 1948) met "Joe Perry" (born September 10, 1950) at an ice cream parlor in New Hampshire, where Tyler was working a summer job. Tyler, from New York, had sung with a variety of bands before joining the group "Chain Reaction", while Perry was a veteran guitarist with a number of Boston-area bands, most notably the Jam Band.... Full Biography

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