Toys in the Attic: The Fall and Rise of Rocks Greatest Band: Aerosmith: Rise, Fall and Rise of "Aerosmith" - Softcover

Huxley, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0283062541 ISBN 13: 9780283062544

Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

This is an unauthorized biography of Aerosmith. In 1993, Aerosmith signed an unprecedented multi-million dollar long-term contract with Sony Music. A few years earlier, however, few observers would have predicted that the band would still be around, let alone prospering, in the 1990s. Aerosmith emerged in the mid-1970s from the local bar scene to become one of that era's most successful and influential American hard-rock bands, selling multiplatinum records before publicly self-destructing in a drug-clouded haze. In the 1980s and 1990s the band pulled itself out of a "seven-year lost weekend" to produce music as good as they ever did in the 1970s. They are known to have influenced bands such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam, as well as hard rock and heavy metal bands. Their participation in Run-DMC's hip-hop re-working of "Walk This Way", helped launch a rock-rap-fusion trend in contemporary music.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0283062541
• ISBN 13: 9780283062544
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256