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“I woke up in the morning and found John watching the sunrise and still listening to the song. It was as if we were both haunted by it”: How Yoko Ono’s disco-infused classic Walking On Thin Ice captivated John Lennon in their final, poignant collaboration

MusicRadar

On the road with America's loudest survivors: Aerosmith, Kiss, and the making of Honkin' On Bobo

With the back-to-basics blues-oriented album Honkin' On Bobo, Aerosmith let the music do the talking once again

Louder

“We were drug addicts dabbling in music, rather than musicians dabbling in drugs”: The unhinged story of Aerosmith’s Draw The Line, the album that sent them crashing off the rails

Drugs, dysfunction and 1977’s Draw The Line album sent Aerosmith into a tailspin that would take a decade to pull out of

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“I don’t want to sound pro-drug or anything, but there is something about being high that makes you look at things differently”: How Aerosmith made their first great chemically-fuelled masterpiece Toys In The Attic

Aerosmith were always destined for stardom – and Toys In The Attic was the album that finally got them there

Louder

“Allthe labels said, ‘You’re dated.’ If weweren’t doing so well, it would have beencrushing, but we were playing tosold-out crowds”: How forgotten ’80s heroes Zebra earned their stripes as the people’s power-trio

Led by singer/guitarist Randy Jackson, Zebra kept the spirit of Zeppelin, Hendrix and Cream alive. These days, family man Jackson is busy shaping up the group’s first album in two decades

Guitar World

“He showed me the Rickenbacker he used with the Beatles at Shea Stadium. It still had the song list taped to the side”: Released weeks before his murder, John Lennon’s final album paired him with some of the era’s finest session guitarists

Hesitant to step back into the spotlight but powered by renewed creative energy, the former Beatle joined forces with Earl Slick, Hugh McCracken, and – though their collaborations weren't released for a number of years – Cheap Trick

Guitar World

“We drank a lot because of the blow and we got blown a lot because we drank a lot”: The wired story of Aerosmith’s drug-fuelled classic Rocks

The drugs really were working for Aerosmith on 1976’s classic Rocks album

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“I’m told that I introduced Ozzy to cocaine when Black Sabbath opened for Mountain on their first American tour”: Leslie West’s wild tales of Ozzy Osbourne, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix and Tom Hanks

Playing with The Who, jamming with Hendrix, partying with Bowie, Jagger and Lennon -late Mountain man Leslie West did it all and more

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Moment killer lies about identity to police before arrest for honeytrap role in machete murder

A murderer lied about her identity to police after luring a man to a park where he was stabbed to death by her accomplices.

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"If you were playing with two other rock bands, you wanted to be the band that people remembered when they walked out": How Aerosmith got their wings and flew

With their label ready to drop them after a so-so first album, Aerosmith clung on, dreamed on, and recorded a second that gave them lift-off: Get Your Wings

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“We put out Rock in a Hard Place and went out on the road, which was the definition of the word ‘fiasco.’ Too many shows ended early due to the excessive use of chemicals”: Tom Hamilton on Aerosmith’s past challenges – and why they still have a future

Still finding inspiration, he explains how close the band came to missing out on Sweet Emotion, his near-grudge over Janie’s Got a Gun, why he was glad Joe Perry quit and the development of his video screen bass

Guitar World

"It was important for us to press the reset button": Joe Perry on touring with Kiss and the making of Aerosmith's Honkin' On Bobo

With a back-to-basics blues-oriented just recorded, Aerosmith in 2003 were more determined than ever to let the music do the talking

Louder

"Their signature sound comes from a unique concoction of heavy metal, rock, blues and funk elements – all brought together by the alchemical musical alliance of guitarists Joe Perry and Brad Whitford": 5 Aerosmith songs you need to hear

As one of rock's greatest bands retires from touring, we look at where to start with their musical legacy

MusicRadar

"Rocks sounds raunchy and dirty? Hell, our lives were raunchy and dirty": Aerosmith personally dissect their classic albums

Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford and Tom Hamilton recall some of the best, worst and decidedly average Aerosmith albums

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Chicago Sun-Times

‘John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial’ a solid doc with little new to say

While moving at times, Apple TV+ series never backs up the conspiracy theories it hints at.

Louder

"I wish I'd had Rick on Cold Turkey – Clapton choked up": What happened when John Lennon hired Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen to play on Double Fantasy

Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen has never hidden his admiration for The Beatles, and in 1980 he got a call from John Lennon himself

The Independent UK

Michael Douglas says Debra Winger lost Romancing the Stone role after biting his arm

“I break down in tears and say, ‘I can’t go to the jungle with her – she bit me on the arm!’” Douglas said

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