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Aerosmith is a long-running hard rock band,
originally forming in Boston, Massachusetts in the
early 1970s, and enjoying a later resurgence in
popularity in the late 1980s.

==History==

===1970s===

The original lineup included Steven Tyler (lead
vocals), Joe Perry (musician)|Joe Perry (guitar)
and Tom Hamilton (bass guitar), soon adding Ray
Tabano as a second guitarist, then replacing him
with Brad Whitford (formerly of Earth Inc.). 
Tyler, who was originally a drummer and singer,
became a full-time vocalist when drummer Joey
Kramer joined.  After some local success doing
live shows, Aerosmith signed with Columbia Records
in 1972 and issued a debut album, Aerosmith
(album)|Aerosmith that included a minor hit
single, "Dream On".  After constant touring, the
band released Get Your Wings (1974), which did
quite well on the charts.

It was 1975's Toys in the Attic that established
Aerosmith as international stars. Originally
derided as Rolling Stones knockoffs, Toys in the
Attic showed that Aerosmith was a talented band in
their own right.  Part heavy metal music|heavy
metal, part glam rock, and part punk music, Toys
in the Attic was an immediate success, starting
with the single "Sweet Emotion", then a successful
re-release of "Dream On", and a new song from the
album, "Walk This Way". Both of the band's
previous albums re-charted. Aerosmith's next
album, Rocks (album)|Rocks, went gold
record|platinum swiftly and featured two FM
broadcasting|FM hits, "Back in the Saddle" and
"Last Child".

The next album, Draw the Line, was not as
successful, though the title track proved to be a
minor hit (and is still a live staple). While
continuing to tour and record into the late 1970s,
Aerosmith acted in the movie version of Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (movie)|Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, covering the The
Beatles|Beatles hit "Come Together." As their
popularity waned and drug abuse began affecting
their output, Joe Perry left the band during the
recording of their sixth studio album Night in the
Ruts in 1979 and formed The Joe Perry Project.
Perry was replaced first by longtime band friend
and songwriter Richie Supa and then by guitarist
Jimmy Crespo (formerly of the band Flame
(band)|Flame) who recorded the remainder of the
album.

===1980s===

Aerosmith released its mammoth-selling Greatest
Hits album in 1980 and in 1981 the band suffered
another loss with the departure of Brad Whitford.
Whitford was replaced by Rick Dufay and the band
recorded their seventh album Rock in a Hard Place.
The album was considered a relative failure.

On Valentine's Day 1984, Perry and Whitford saw
Aerosmith play. They were officially re-inducted
into the ranks of Aerosmith once more in April of
that year. Steven Tyler recalls, "You should have
felt the buzz the moment all five of us got
together in the same room for the first time
again. We all started laughin'—it was like
the five years had never passed. We knew we'd made
the right move."

Aerosmith embarked on a lucrative reunion tour
entitled "Back in the Saddle", which produced the
live album Classics Live II. Their problems still
not behind them (Tyler collapsed onstage due to
recreational drugs|drug problems early in the
tour), the group was signed to Geffen Records and
began working on a comeback.

1985 saw the release of Done with Mirrors, their
first studio album since the much-publicized
reunion. It fared relatively well commercially,
but it did not produce a hit single or generate
much buzz. By the time the record was released,
Tyler and Perry had exited drug rehabilitation.
The group appeared on Run D.M.C.'s massively
successful cover of "Walk This Way", blending rock
and roll and hip hop and beginning Aerosmith's
comeback. The group's next release was Permanent
Vacation (album)|Permanent Vacation (1987), which
included the hits "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)", "Rag
Doll", and "Angel". Their next album was received
even better; Pump (album)|Pump featured four Top
Ten singles: "Janie's Got a Gun", "What It Takes",
"Love in an Elevator", and "The Other Side",
reestablishing Aerosmith as a serious musical
force again.

===1990s===

Despite significant shifts in mainstream music at
the beginning of the 1990s, the band's 1993
follow-up to Pump, Get a Grip, was just as
successful commercially.  Though many critics were
unimpressed by the focus on power-ballads in
promoting the album, all three ("Cryin", "Crazy"
and  "Amazing") proved to be huge successes on
radio and MTV. The music videos featured then
up-and-coming actress Alicia Silverstone; her
provocative performances earned her the title of
"the Aerosmith chick" for the first half of the
decade. Steven Tyler's daughter Liv Tyler was also
featured in the "Crazy" video.

Aerosmith signed to Columbia Records again in the
early 1990s, but they had to complete two
contractual albums for Geffen before recording for
the new label. The next album, Nine Lives, was
plagued with personnel problems, including the
firing of manager Tim Collins. Reviews were
generally mixed, and Nine Lives initially fell
down the charts quickly, though it had a long
chart  life and sold double platinum in the US
alone. It was followed by a series of late '90s
releases (live and retrospective) that sold
respectably but began a second decline in
popularity and critical respect. Yet Aerosmith's
biggest hit of the '90s, and its only #1 single to
date, was the love theme from the film Armageddon
(movie)|Armageddon, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"
(conceived by Joe Perry and Diane Warren, though
Warren alone received songwriting credit).
(Perhaps coincidentally, Steven Tyler's daughter
Liv was featured in the movie.)

In 1999, they were featured in the Disney-MGM
Studios (and later in a Disney Studios Paris
version in 2001) ride, Rock 'n' Roller Coaster
Starring Aerosmith, providing the soundtrack and
theme of the ride, which is based on their
recording session and following concert.

===2000s===

The band entered its next decade with Just Push
Play in 2001, which charted well. They were
inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the
same year.

Their long-promised blues album, Honkin' on Bobo
was released in 2004. Honkin' on Bobo continues to
be a success for the resurgence of blues and roots
music across the US and Europe. The album was
followed by a live DVD, You Gotta Move in December
2004.  The band also lent its seminal "Dream On"
to an advertising campaign for Buick in 2004,
targeting that marque's audience which is now
composed largely of people who were teenagers when
the song first charted.

In 2005, guitarist Joe Perry released his
eponym|eponymous solo album. Many claim that it is
in many ways truer to the Aerosmith of the '70s
than any of their recent output, mostly because no
song doctors were used. Personnel around the band
confirmed in the spring of 2005 that the band was
sifting through material for a live CD and DVD
release and are planning a tour in the fall of
2005, followed by a studio album release of new
material.

==Discography==

=== Albums ===

Studio
*Aerosmith (album)|Aerosmith (1973) #21 US, US
Sales: 2,000,000
*Get Your Wings (1974) #74 US, US Sales: 3,000,000
*Toys in the Attic (1975) #11 US, US Sales:
8,000,000
*Rocks (album)|Rocks (1976) #3 US, US Sales:
4,000,000
*Draw the Line (1977) #11 US, US Sales: 2,000,000
*Night in the Ruts (1979) #14 US, US Sales:
1,000,000
*Rock in a Hard Place (1982) #32 US, US Sales:
500,000
*Done with Mirrors (1985) #36 US, US Sales:
500,000
*Permanent Vacation (album)|Permanent Vacation
(1987) #11 US, #37 UK, US Sales: 5,000,000
*Pump (album)|Pump (1989) #5 US, #3 UK, US Sales:
7,000,000
*Get a Grip (1993) #1 US, #2 UK, US Sales:
7,000,000
*Nine Lives (Aerosmith album)|Nine Lives (1997) #1
US, #4 UK, US Sales: 2,000,000
*Just Push Play (2001) #2 US, #7 UK, US Sales:
1,000,000
*Honkin' on Bobo (2004) #5 US, #28 UK, US Sales:
700,000

Live
*Live Bootleg (1978) #13 US, US Sales: 1,000,000
*Classics Live! (Purple cover) (1986) #84 US, US
Sales: 1,000,000
*Classics Live! Vol. 2 (Red cover) (1987), US
Sales: 500,000
*A Little South of Sanity (1998) #12 US, #36 UK,
US Sales: 1,000,000
*Rockin' the Joint (2005)

Compilations
*Greatest Hits (Aerosmith)|Greatest Hits (1980)
#53 US, US Sales: 10,000,000
*Gems (album)|Gems (1988) #133 US, US Sales:
500,000
*Pandora's Box (album)|Pandora's Box (1991) #45
US, US Sales: 1,000,000
*Box of Fire (1994), US Sales: 500,000
*Big Ones (1994) #6 US, #7 UK, US Sales: 4,000,000
*Young Lust: The Aerosmith Anthology (2001) #191
US, #32 UK, US Sales: 500,000
*O, Yeah! The Ultimate Aerosmith Hits (2002) #4
US, #6 UK, US Sales: 1,000,000
*Chronicles (2005 album)|Chronicles (2005)

=== Hit singles ===

* from Toys in the Attic
** 1975 "Sweet Emotion" #36 US
** 1977 "Walk This Way" #10 US
* from Aerosmith
** 1976 "Dream On" #6 US
** 1977 "Mama Kin"
* from Rocks
** 1976 "Last Child" #21 US
** 1977 "Back in the Saddle" #38 US
* from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
soundtrack
** 1978 "Come Together" #23 US
* from Permanent Vacation
** 1987 "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" #14 US
** 1988 "Angel" #3 US
** 1988 "Rag Doll" #17 US
** 1990 "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" #20 UK
* from Pump
** 1989 "Love in an Elevator" #5 US, #13 UK
** 1989 "Water Song/Janie's Got a Gun" #4 US
** 1990 "What It Takes" #9 US, #10 UK
** 1990 "The Other Side" #22 US
* from Get a Grip
** 1993 "Livin' on the Edge" #18 US, #19 UK
** 1993 "Eat the Rich" #34 UK
** 1993 "Cryin'" #12 US, #17 UK
** 1993 "Amazing" #24 US
** 1994 "Shut Up and Dance" #24 UK
** 1994 "Crazy" #17 US, #23 UK (double A-side with
Blind Man in the UK)
* from Nine Lives
** 1997 "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)"
#35 US, #22 UK
** 1997 "Hole in My Soul" #51 US, #29 UK
** 1997 "Pink" #27 US (1998 release), #38 UK
* from Armageddon soundtrack
** 1998 "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" #1 US, #4
UK
* from Nine Lives
** 1999 "Pink" (re-issue) #13 UK
* from Just Push Play
** 2001 "Jaded" #7 US, #13 UK
** 2001 "Just Push Play"

== Aerosmith and Arrowsmith ==
Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) wrote Arrowsmith
(book)|Arrowsmith. Aerosmith claims that their
name has no relationship to this book.  According
to the band's biography Walk this Way, drummer
Joey Kramer came up with the name in high school
when coming up with cool band names.  He liked
names that began with "Aero" and decided that
"Aerosmith" was his favorite combination.

==Miscellaneous==

* Aerosmith songs are featured on the Rock 'n
Roller Coaster in Disney-MGM_Studios|Disney-MGM
Studios located in Lake Buena Vista, Florida|Lake
Buena Vista, Florida.
* They are also featured on the Rock 'n Roller
Coaster in Walt Disney Studios Paris located in
Marne-la-VallÊe, France.
* The band was featured prominently in the movie
Wayne's World 2.
* The band has starred or appeared in numerous
video games, such as Revolution X and Quest for
Fame.
* The single "Nine Lives" is the main theme for
Dead or Alive 3.
* The single "Dream On" is also the main theme for
Dead or Alive Ultimate.
* In 1994, Aerosmith released the single "Head
First" for download on the internet. It is
considered the first full-length commercial
entertainment product online.
* In 2001, Aerosmith played the 35th Super Bowl
halftime show with N'Sync, Britney Spears, Mary J.
Blige, and Nelly.
* The hit "Dream On" provides the background and
chorus for Eminem's 2003 hit song "Sing for the
Moment".

==See also==
*Best selling music artists

==External links==
*http://Aerosmith.com Official site, Aerosmith.com
*http://aerosmith.lyrics.info/ Aerosmith lyrics
*http://www.aerosmithforever.com Aerosmith Forever
- Posters, Books, Lyrics and more