Today’s Legendary band Aerosmith killed in the 70s, faltered in the early 80s, and then made one of the biggest comebacks in rock history in the late 80s and leveled up in the 90s… with 3 massive #1 hits, Cryin', Amazing, and Crazy, that... well… kind of sounded like the same song with different lyrics! Let’s go behind the scenes and investigate a rich time for Aerosmith…You’ll find everything from song-doctored singles and music video muses. We’ll listen to three huge hits that have different titles and we’ll find out if this band ripped themselves off several times NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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After years of excess and substance abuse, Aerosmith's career made a remarkable resurgence in the late 80s... thanks in no small part to the band’s determination to get clean. You gotta give Aerosmith their props. The collective efforts of Steven Tyler on vocals, Joe Perry and Brad Whitford on guitar, Tom Hamilton on bass, and Joey Kramer on drums turned things around after it looked like all was lost. All of this led to an impressive and increasingly successful second act for Aerosmith’s career. Really one of the greatest second acts for a band in history.
I mean take a look at the numbers. 1987’s Permanent Vacation went to #11 on the US Billboard 200, and 1989’s Pump went to #5. Singles from the two albums made incredible chart showings. For instance, Love in an Elevator went to #5 on the Hot 100, Janie’s Got a Gun reached #4, and Angel climbed to #3.
But cleaning up wasn’t Aerosmith’s only prescription for success. Along the way, they got quite a few house calls from song doctors who helped them polish their music for mass consumption.
While the entirety of 1985’s Done with Mirrors was written by Boston’s bad boys alone, a new songwriting dynamic emerged thereafter with Permanent Vacation, which credited only four tracks solely to the band. And as for Pump, the number was six.
That means roughly half the tracks from Aerosmith’s ‘late 80s Renaissance’ benefitted in part from someone else’s vision. And when the guys got back in the saddle again for 1993’s Get a Grip, they put together an even more robust collection of collaborators... which once again proved extremely effective. Four more Hot 100 hits, five top-five singles, and a #7 spot on the US Mainstream Rock chart. It was a tactic that clearly worked for Aerosmith. A secret weapon. During the span of 1987 to 1994, the band released a total of 21 singles... And out of those, a staggering 17 were written or co-written by songwriters who didn’t go by the name of Aerosmith.
Right after Pump was released, Sony approached Aerosmith with a massive $30 million deal. Not surprisingly, the band signed on the dotted line. But before Aerosmith could get underway, they still had unfinished business with their current label, Geffen... They would need to turn out one last record.
