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[Verse 1]
I’m alone
Yeah, I don’t know if I can face the night
I’m in tears, and the cryin’ that I do is for you
I want your love – let’s break the walls between us
Don’t make it tough – I’ll put away my pride
Enough’s enough, I’ve suffered and I’ve seen the light

[Chorus]
Baby
You’re my angel
Come and save me tonight
You’re my angel
Come and make it all right

[Verse 2]
Don’t know what I’m going to do
About this feeling inside
Yes it’s true – loneliness took me for a ride
Without your love – I’m nothing but a begger
Without your love – a dog without a bone
What can I do? I’m sleeping in this bed alone

[Chorus]
Baby
You’re my angel
Come and save me tonight
You’re my angel
Come and make it all right

[Verse 3]
You’re the reason I live
You’re the reason I die
You’re the reason I give
When I break down and cry
Don’t need no reason why
Baby, baby

[Chorus]
Baby
You’re my angel
Come and save me tonight
You’re my angel
Come and make it all right

[Outro]
Come and save me tonight[x5]

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“Angel” is a power ballad by American rock band Aerosmith. It was written by lead singer Steven Tyler and professional songwriting collaborator Desmond Child.

It was released in 1988 as the third single from the band’s successful 1987 album Permanent Vacation. It quickly climbed to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100,^[1] making it the second highest chart performance for any Aerosmith single, behind their #1 smash “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing“.^[1]

Charts

Year-End Chart

[Intro]

[Chorus]
Sweet emotion
Sweet emotion

[Verse 1]
Talk about things that nobody cares
Wearing other things that nobody wears
You’re calling my name but I got to make clear
I can’t say baby where I’ll be in a year
Some sweat hot mama with a face like a gent
Said my get up and go, musta got up and went
Well I got good news, she’s a real good liar
Because the backstage boogie set your pants on fire

[Chorus]
Sweet emotion
Sweet emotion

[Verse 2]
I pulled into town in a police car
Your daddy said I took it just a little too far
You’re telling me things but your girlfriend lied
You can’t catch me because the rabbit done died, yes it did
You stand in the front just a shaking your ass
I’ll take you backstage you can drink from my glass
I’ll talk about something you’re sure to understand
Because a month on the road and I’ll be eating from your hand

“Sweet Emotion” is a song by the American rock band Aerosmith, released by Columbia Records in April 1975 on the album Toys in the Attic^[1] and was released as a single a month later on May 19.^[2] The song began a string of pop hits and large-scale mainstream success for the band that would continue for the remainder of the 1970s. The song was written by lead singer Steven Tyler and bassist Tom Hamilton, produced by Jack Douglas^[2][3] and recorded at the Record Plant.^[3]

Success

“Sweet Emotion” was released as a single on May 19, 1975,^[2] and peaked at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band’s breakthrough single and their first Top 40 hit.^[4] The day it hit #36 on the U.S. chart, July 19, 1975, Aerosmith was booked at a gig in New York City’s Central Park, called the Schaefer Music Festival. The song and consequently the album that went into the Top 10 were so successful that the band decided to ride the heels of success and re-release one of their first singles, the power ballad “Dream On“, which had originally charted at #59 in 1973.^[5][4] The re-released version went on to hit #6,^[5][4] the highest chart performance in the 1970s for the band.^[4] “Sweet Emotion” remains successful in the modern day, having sold over three million digital downloads.^[6]

Lyrical interpretation

Many Aerosmith fans believe that Steven Tyler wrote all of the lyrics to the song about the tension and hatred between the band members and Joe Perry‘s wife. Tyler himself has said that only some of the lyrics were inspired by Perry’s wife. It was stated in Aerosmith’s tell-all autobiography Walk This Way and in an episode of Behind the Music that growing feuds between the band members’ wives (including an incident involving “spilt milk” where Elyssa Perry threw milk over Tom Hamilton’s wife, Terry) may have helped lead to the band’s original lineup dissolving in the early 1980s.^[7]

The line “Can’t catch me / Cause the rabbit done died” is a reference to the rabbit test.^[8]

Song structure

“Sweet Emotion” is a hard rock^[9] song with a repeated electric bass riff tracked alongside the bass marimba, played by Jay Messina in the beginning, and Steven Tyler shakes a packet of sugar in place of maracas, as none were available. The introduction builds with the use of a talk box by Perry, which has become one of the most famous uses of the guitar talk box in popular music (Perry’s guitar “sings” the line “sweet emotion” over Hamilton’s bass riff). Eventually Tyler joins in, singing in unison with Perry’s talk box. The actual talk box device used was called The Bag and was made by Kustom Electronics. The now discontinued device had been used earlier by guitarists including Jeff Beck and Mike Pinera.

The song kicks into a more rocking rhythm with dueling guitars, and rapid-fire angry-sounding lyrics sung by Tyler. The chorus of the song consists of a repeating guitar riff followed by a mirror of the “sweet emotion” intro.

On the 1980 compilation album Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits, “Sweet Emotion” appears in edited form. The bass and talk box introduction is deleted, and the track begins with the chorus that precedes the first verse. The guitar solo at the end of the song was also excised, and the track concludes with the chorus, which repeats as the song fades out. This same edit was used for the original single release of the song, which was quickly replaced in subsequent pressings with the album version from Toys in the Attic.

Personnel

• Steven Tyler – lead vocals, maracas, vibraslap
• Joe Perry – lead guitar, talk box, backing vocals
• Brad Whitford – rhythm guitar
• Tom Hamilton – bass
• Joey Kramer – drums
• Jay Messina – marimba

Legacy

The song has been included on almost every Aerosmith compilation and live album, including Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits, Pandora’s Box, Pandora’s Toys, O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits, Devil’s Got a New Disguise, Live! Bootleg, Classics Live I, A Little South of Sanity, Greatest Hits 1973–1988 and Rockin’ the Joint.

The song is frequently cited as Aerosmith’s signature song, including in the World Almanac and Book of Facts, and regularly competes with “Dream On” and “Walk This Way” for the title of Aerosmith’s “signature song” elsewhere.

It is often included on “greatest song” lists or “greatest rock song” lists, including a ranking of No. 408 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.^[10]

Re-release

The original recording was remixed by David Thoener and released as a single in 1991 in coordination with the release of the band’s box set Pandora’s Box, although the remixed version was not in the box set. The differences from the original are that the drums are mixed louder, with more reverb, and that the song itself is over thirty seconds longer. A new music video was filmed and released in support of the single. The re-released version reached #36 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and #74 in the United Kingdom. The remixed version was later issued on the soundtrack to the 1998 film Armageddon.

Music video

The video for the re-released version is based on a phone sex conversation. The video, directed by Marty Callner shows a young man under his covers with a magazine which is advertising a phone sex line. The young man, who says he is a 26-year-old attorney, and the phone sex operator talk about each other for a while, until it goes into a shot of the band performing in a basement (this portion of the video was actually recorded in an old warehouse in the Charlestown Navy Yard, which substituted as the band’s old apartment on 1325 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston). It switches back-and-forth between Aerosmith performing “Sweet Emotion” and the phone conversation. At the very end, both the phone sex operator and the young man are shown to be very different from each other’s perceptions; she is an overweight older woman with a baby living in a run down house, and he is a teenage boy. Throughout most of the video, Perry is playing a Gibson Les Paul but plays the solo on a Fender Stratocaster.

The video is also a homage to the 1983 film Risky Business, in that the opening scenes of the young man talking to the woman are almost identical to the scenes in the film of Tom Cruise‘s character talking on the phone to the call girl.

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In March 2011 Japan was beset by a huge earthquake, a monstrous tsunami and the subsequent meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant. In the autumn of 2011, despite advice to the contrary, Aerosmith brought their “Back On The Road” tour to Japan, a country with which they’d always had a special relationship. The Japanese fans came out in their droves and Aerosmith responded with some of the finest gigs of their distinguished career. This film follows the band on that tour combining full length live tracks with behind the scenes footage which is at times touching and emotional and at others humorous and insightful. More than anything else it demonstrates the Japanese fans’ love affair with Aerosmith and their music.

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[Verse 1]
Backstroking lover
Always hiding ‘neath the covers
“Can I talk to you?” My daddy would say
He said, “You ain’t seen nothing
Until you’re down on a muff and
Then you’re sure to be a-changing your ways”
I met a cheerleader
Was a real young bleeder
All the times I could reminisce
Cause the best things of loving
With her sister and her cousin
Only started with a little kiss
Like this

See-saw swinging with the boys in the school
With your feet flying up in the air
Singing hey diddle-diddle
With your kitty in the middle
Of the swing like I didn’t care
So I took a big chance
At the high school dance
With a missy who was ready to play
Wasn’t me she was fooling
Cause she knew what she was doing
And I knew love was here to stay
When she told me to

[Chorus]
“Walk this way, walk this way”
“Walk this way, walk this way”
“Walk this way, walk this way”
“Walk this way, walk this way”
Ah, just give me a kiss
Like this

[Verse 2]
School girl sweetie
With the classy kinda sassy
Little skirt’s climbing way up her knee
There was three young ladies
In the school gym locker
When I noticed they was looking at me
I was a high school loser
Never made it with a lady
Till the boys told me something I missed
Then my next door neighbor
With a daughter had a favor
So I gave her a little kiss
Like this

See-saw swinging with the boys in the school
With your feet flying up in the air
Singing hey diddle-diddle
With your kitty in the middle
Of the swing like I didn’t care
So I took a big chance
At the high school dance
With a missy who was ready to play
Wasn’t me she was fooling
Cause she knew what she was doing
When she taught me how to walk this way
She told me to

“Walk this way, walk this way”
“Walk this way, walk this way”
“Walk this way, walk this way”
“Walk this way, walk this way”
Just give me a kiss
Like this

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“Walk This Way” is a song by the American hard rock band Aerosmith. Written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, the song was originally released as the second single from the album Toys in the Attic (1975). It peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1977, part of a string of successful hit singles for the band in the 1970s. In addition to being one of the songs that helped break Aerosmith into the mainstream in the 1970s, it also helped revitalize their career in the 1980s when it was covered by rappers Run–D.M.C. on their 1986 album Raising Hell. This cover was a touchstone for the new musical subgenre of rap rock, or the melding of rock and hip hop. It became an international hit and won both groups a Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap – Single in 1987.

Production

Music

The song starts out with a two measure drum beat intro by Joey Kramer, followed by the well known guitar riff by Joe Perry. The song proceeds with the main riff made famous by Perry and Brad Whitford on guitar with Tom Hamilton on bass. The song continues with rapid fire lyrics by Steven Tyler.

Lyrics

In December 1974, Aerosmith opened for The Guess Who in Honolulu. During the sound check, guitarist Joe Perry was “fooling around with riffs and thinking about The Meters,” a group guitarist Jeff Beck had turned him on to. Loving “their riffy New Orleans funk, especially ‘Cissy Strut‘ and ‘People Say‘”, he asked the drummer “to lay down something flat with a groove on the drums.” The guitar riff to what would become “Walk This Way” just “came off [his] hands.”^[4] Needing a bridge, he

played another riff and went there. But I didn’t want the song to have a typical, boring 1, 4, 5 chord progression. After playing the first riff in the key of C, I shifted to E before returning to C for the verse and chorus. By the end of the sound check, I had the basics of a song.

When bandmate Steven Tyler heard Perry playing that riff he “ran out and sat behind the drums and [they] jammed.” Tyler scatted “nonsensical words initially to feel where the lyrics should go before adding them later.”

When the group was halfway through recording Toys in the Attic in early 1975 at Record Plant in New York City, they found themselves stuck for material. They had written three or four songs for the album, having “to write the rest in the studio.” They decided to give the song Perry had come up with in Hawaii a try, but it did not have lyrics or a title yet. Deciding to take a break from recording, band members and producer Jack [Douglas] went down to Times Square to see Mel Brooks‘ Young Frankenstein. Returning to the studio, they were laughing about Marty Feldman telling Gene Wilder to follow him in the film, saying “walk this way” and limping. Douglas suggested this as a title for their song.^[4][5] But they still needed lyrics.

At the hotel that night Tyler wrote lyrics for the song, but left them in the cab on the way to the studio next morning. He says: “I must have been stoned. All the blood drained out of my face, but no one believed me. They thought I never got around to writing them.” Upset, he took a cassette tape with the instrumental track we had recorded and a portable tape player with headphones and “disappeared into the stairwell.” He “grabbed a few No. 2 pencils” but forgot to take paper. He wrote the lyrics on the wall at “the Record Plant’s top floor and then down a few stairs of the back stairway.” After “two or three hours” he “ran downstairs for a legal pad and ran back up and copied them down.”^[4]

Perry thought the “lyrics were so great,” noting Tyler, being a drummer, “likes to use words as a percussion element.” He says:

The words have to tell a story, but for Steven they also have to have a bouncy feel for flow. Then he searches for words that have a double entendre, which comes out of the blues tradition.

Perry always liked to wait until Tyler recorded his vocal so he “could weave around his vocal attack,” but Tyler wanted Perry to record first for the same reason. After a “tug-of-war”, Tyler’s vocal was recorded first with Perry’s guitar track overdubbed.^[4]

The lyrics, which tell the story of a high school boy losing his virginity, are sung quite fast by Tyler, with heavy emphasis being placed on the rhyming lyrics (e.g., “so I took a big chance at the high school dance“).

Between the elaborately detailed verses, the chorus primarily consists of a repetition of “Walk this way, talk this way”.

Live in concert, Tyler often has the audience, combined with members of the band, sing “talk this way”. There is also a lengthy guitar solo at the end of the song, and in concert, Tyler will often harmonize his voice to mimic the sounds of the guitar.

Chart performance

Year-end charts

Legacy

“Walk This Way” was one of two hit singles by the band to hit the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1970s, the other one being a re-release of “Dream On“. “Walk This Way”, though, helped Toys in the Attic to be the bestselling Aerosmith album, and one of the most critically acclaimed. Aerosmith’s version of “Walk This Way” often competes with “Sweet Emotion” and “Dream On” for the title of Aerosmith’s signature song, being one of the band’s most important, influential, and recognizable songs. The band rarely omits it from their concert setlist, still performing their classic version of the song to this day. The song has also long been a staple of rock radio, garnering regular airplay on mainstream rock, classic rock, and album-oriented rock radio stations. In 2009, it was named the eighth greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.^[9]

Fee Waybill, Steve Lukather, Tim Bogert and Tommy Aldridge covered the song for the Aerosmith tribute album Not the Same Old Song and Dance (Eagle Records, 1999).

Aerosmith reference lyrics from the song in “Legendary Child“. The line “I took a chance at the high school dance never knowing wrong from right” references lyrics from the songs “Walk This Way” and “Adam’s Apple” respectively. Both songs first appeared on the album “Toys in the Attic”.

Run–D.M.C. version

In 1986, the hip hop group Run–D.M.C. performed a cover of “Walk This Way” with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry guesting on vocals and guitars. While working on Raising Hell, Rick Rubin pulled out Toys in the Attic (an album they freestyled over) and explained who Aerosmith were. They had performed with this song before, but only using first few seconds of the song on a loop, not knowing what the full song sounded like, or even hearing the lyrics. While Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels had no idea who Aerosmith were at that time, Rubin suggested remaking the song. Neither Simmons nor McDaniels liked the idea, though Jam Master Jay was open to it. They didn’t want the record to be released as a single even after recording with Aerosmith and were shocked when it was played all over the radio, on the hip hop and rock stations.^[12] Later, however, Run–D.M.C. covered the song. D.M.C. called it “a beautiful thing” in a trailer for Guitar Hero.

The 1986 version of the song is often credited as helping break hip hop music into mainstream pop music as it was the first hip hop song to hit the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the remake demonstrated how elements of hip hop music can be part of rock and pop songs, harking back to the DJing of Afrika Bambaataa, who would mix in tracks by the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Grand Funk Railroad among the more usual funk breaks. It also briefly samples the opening drum intro of the original in a middle section of the song. This version of “Walk This Way” charted higher on the Billboard Hot 100 than the original version, peaking at number 4. It was also one of the first big hip hop singles in the UK, reaching a peak of number 8 there.

The landmark collaboration catapulted Run–D.M.C. into mainstream stardom and would influence hip hop music for years to come. The song paved the way for other pop acts to introduce elements of hip hop into their music. It pioneered the trend of rhymed/sung collaborations that is so present on American Radio from the late 1990s and 2000s to the present. The collaboration also introduced a fusion of rock and hip hop, later known as rap rock, to a wide audience for the first time.

The song also marked a major comeback for Aerosmith, as they had been largely out of mainstream pop culture for several years while members were battling drug and alcohol addiction along with key members having left the band. Their 1985 comeback album, Done with Mirrors, had also flopped. Aerosmith followed up “Walk This Way” with a string of multi-platinum albums and Top 40 hits, starting with the album Permanent Vacation and single “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” in 1987. In 2008, “Walk This Way” was ranked number 4 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop“. This version of the song is currently ranked as the 110th greatest song of all time, as well as the second best song of 1986, by Acclaimed Music.^[13]

The chorus of Run–D.M.C.’s cover contains a pitch alternation that Aerosmith themselves adapted in most future live performances. In collaborations, the other singer often says “talk this way” every alternate line of the chorus. This rap-style delivery may explain why the song worked so well as a hip hop song when it was covered eleven years later.^[14]

In the Run–D.M.C. cover, a turntable and drum machine are added in to reflect the additional hip hop influence on the record. Both the original Aerosmith version and the Run–D.M.C. cover (featuring Tyler and Perry) appear on various Aerosmith compilations as well as Run-D.M.C. albums.

The song is featured on the video game series Just Dance 2015.

Music video

The 1986 music video for “Walk This Way” symbolically placed a rock band and Run–D.M.C. in a musical duel in neighboring studios before Steven Tyler literally breaks through the wall that separates them. The video then segues to the bands’ joint performance on stage. The highly popular video was the first hip hop hybrid video ever played in heavy rotation on MTV and is regarded as a classic of the medium. The video was directed by Jon Small and filmed at the Park Theater in Union City, New Jersey. The theater has remained largely unchanged since the video was filmed. Visitors may notice two holes in the ceiling toward the front of the stage where a light fixture was meant to be installed for the shoot.^{[citation needed]}

Aside from Tyler and Perry, none of the other rock musicians in the video are the Aerosmith members; instead, they were played by Roger Lane, J. D. Malo, and Matt Stelutto—respectively rhythm guitarist, bassist, and drummer of the largely unknown hair metal outfit Smashed Gladys. According to VH1‘s Pop Up Video, Run–D.M.C. could not afford to use the entire Aerosmith band, just Tyler and Perry. As only Tyler and Perry had traveled to record the cover with Run–D.M.C., they were the only real Aerosmith members to appear in the video.^[15]

The guitar that Perry is playing is a Guild X-100 Bladerunner. The Guild X100 Bladerunner was originally developed and patented by David Newell and Andrew Desrosiers of David Andrew Guitars. The patent was licensed to Guild Guitars for 17 years and reverted to public domain in 2006. During initial manufacture, Newell and Desrosiers worked directly with Guild craftsman to develop the final product. The guitar used in this video was one of these early issues.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Later collaborations

In 1989, Tyler and Perry joined Bon Jovi at a concert at Milton Keynes Bowl in the United Kingdom for an encore performance and extended jam of the song.

On September 9, 1999, Kid Rock joined Run–D.M.C. and Aerosmith for an updated rendition of “Walk This Way” at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. In 2002, Kid Rock and Run–D.M.C. (as separate acts) opened for Aerosmith on the first leg of the Girls of Summer Tour. Each night, at the end of Aerosmith’s set, Kid Rock and Run–D.M.C. would join Aerosmith for an encore collaborative performance of “Walk This Way”.

At the Super Bowl XXXV halftime show in January 2001, performers *NSYNC, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige, and Nelly joined Aerosmith onstage for an encore performance of “Walk This Way” with Spears and members of *NSYNC singing different parts of the second verse, Blige adding background harmony, and Nelly performing a rap towards the end of the song.

At the Hyde Park Calling festival in London on June 24, 2007 (a date on Aerosmith’s 2007 world tour), D.M.C. joined Aerosmith on stage for their encore performance of “Walk This Way”.

Also, Fergie joined Aerosmith once on television to duet with Tyler to sing “Walk This Way”.

Both the Run–D.M.C. version and the original version of the song are featured in Guitar Hero: Aerosmith.

The Run-DMC version appeared in dance video games Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 3 and Just Dance 2015.

Tyler has also performed the song with Carrie Underwood on two occasions.

On their 2015 Wheels Up Tour, country pop trio Lady Antebellum and their special guests Hunter Hayes and Sam Hunt performed the song.

Awards and accolades

Song

• The song won both groups a Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap – Single in 1987.
• The song “Walk This Way” is part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.^[32]
• Rolling Stone ranked the original version of “Walk This Way” at number 346 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The version by Run–D.M.C. is ranked at number 293.
• In 2000, “VH1: 100 Greatest Rock Songs” included “Walk This Way” at number 35.
• In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at number 23 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
• In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked the original version of “Walk This Way” at number 34 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.
• In 2009, VH1’s “100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs” included “Walk This Way” at number 8.^[33]
• VH1 ranked the version by Run–D.M.C. at number 4 on VH1 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs.

Music video

• In 1993, “Rolling Stone: The Top 100 Music Videos” included “Walk This Way” (with Run–D.M.C.) at number 11.
• In 1999, “MTV: 100 Greatest Videos Ever Made” included “Walk This Way” (with Run–D.M.C.) at number 5.
• In 2001, “VH1: 100 Greatest Videos” included “Walk This Way” (with Run–D.M.C.) at number 11.
• In 2007, “Fuse: 25 Greatest Music Videos” included “Walk This Way (with Run–D.M.C.) at number 24.

The String Cheese Incident version

In 1997, The String Cheese Incident covered the song on their live album A String Cheese Incident. Although faithful to the intro and main riff, this version is heavily bluegrass-influenced. After the release it was released in a compilation album. This cover is a crossover between bluegrass and rock.

Track listing

• CD Single

1. Walk This Way – 4:46
2. Little Hands – 8:16
3. Rhythm of the Road – 6:08
4. San Jose – 8:53

In 2007, British girl groups Girls Aloud and Sugababes recorded a cover of “Walk This Way” as the official Comic Relief charity single. Their version was produced by American producer Dallas Austin, making it Girls Aloud’s first single not to be produced by Xenomania. The track charted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, giving Girls Aloud their third number 1 and Sugababes their fifth.

The music video was a comic re-enactment of the Run–D.M.C. video. “Walk This Way” was promoted through numerous live appearances and has been included on tours by both Girls Aloud and Sugababes. Contemporary music critics criticised the cover version, but supported the single due to its fundraising nature.

While the Run–D.M.C. cover is nearly identical to the original version, the Girls Aloud/Sugababes version has a few changes tweaked into the song; the additional line “Walk this way, you wanna talk this way” is added, the vocoder is added, the rap breakdown, the lyrics are moved around, and the beat is slightly sped up and realized on a drum machine to add a further dance-pop feel to the song.

Background and release

The idea of a Girls Aloud and Sugababes collaboration came from Comic Relief co-founder and trustee Richard Curtis.^[34] Several songs were possibilities, including Blur‘s “Girls & Boys” and Candi Staton‘s “You Got the Love“, which was Girls Aloud member Nicola Roberts‘ idea and favourite choice.^[34] “Walk This Way” is notably the first Girls Aloud single to date not to feature production from Brian Higgins and Xenomania, who have also worked with Sugababes.^[34] Girls Aloud and Sugababes launched the charity appeal on January 31.^[35] Kimberley Walsh of Girls Aloud said, “It’s a fantastic song and hopefully will raise tons of money for people living in really difficult situations here and in Africa.”^[36] It was also available as a digital download.

Chart performance

“Walk This Way” entered the UK Singles Chart at number 1 on March 18, 2007 ― for the week ending date March 24, 2007.^[37][38] The following week, the single dropped to number 2; it was dethroned by another Comic Relief single, “I’m Gonna Roll (500 Miles)” by The Proclaimers with Peter Kay and Matt Lucas.^[39] In its third week on the chart, “Walk This Way” dropped twelve places out of the top ten, placing itself at number 14.^[40]

The song also charted at number 8 on the Billboard European Hot 100 Singles chart.^[41]

Music video

The music video premiered on The Box on February 2, 2007, and was shown on Channel 4‘s Popworld the following day. The video was filmed over three days in January 2007 – Sugababes on the first, Cheryl Cole, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh on the second, and Nadine Coyle and Sarah Harding on the third and final day.^[34]

Live performances

“Walk This Way” was performed by Girls Aloud and Sugababes for the first time on Comic Relief Does Fame Academy on March 10, 2007. They performed the song on Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day 2007 telethon on March 16. Girls Aloud performed “Walk This Way” without Sugababes on 2007’s The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits Tour. The following year, they performed the song in a medley with “Wake Me Up” on the Tangled Up Tour. Sugababes performed “Walk This Way” without Girls Aloud on 2007’s Overloaded: The Singles Tour.

Track listing and formats

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of “Walk This Way”.

UK CD single (Polydor/Island / 1724331)

1. “Walk This Way” – 2:52
2. “Walk This Way” [Yoad Mix] – 3:01
3. “Walk This Way” – 3:07
4. Behind the Scenes Footage – 3:15

UK Digital Copy (Polydor/Island / 1724332)

1. “Walk This Way” – 2:52
2. “Walk This Way” [Yoad Mix] – 3:01

Credits and personnel

• Engineer: Rick Shepherd, Graham Archer (assistant recording)
• Keyboards: Brian Higgins, Tim Powell
• Mixing: Jeremy Wheatley, Richard Edgeler (assistant)
• Production: Dallas Austin
• Vocals: Girls Aloud, Sugababes

Charts

[Verse 1]
Every time that I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone, it went by like dusk to dawn
Isn’t that the way, everybody got the dues in life to pay
I know nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it’s everybody’s sin
You got to lose to know how to win

[Verse 2]
Half my life’s in books written pages
Lived and learned from fools and from sages
You know it’s true
All the things come back to you

[Chorus]
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing with me, just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord’ll take you away

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing with me, just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord’ll take you away

[Bridge]
Dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream until your dream come true
Dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream until your dream come true

Dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream on
Dream on

[Chorus]
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing with me, just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord’ll take you away
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing with me, just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord’ll take you away

“Dream On” is a power ballad by Aerosmith from their 1973 debut album, Aerosmith.^[3] Written by lead singer Steven Tyler, this song was their first major hit and became a classic rock radio staple. Released in June 1973, it peaked at number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100 but hit big in the band’s native Boston, where it was the number one single of the year on WBZ-FM, number five for the year on WRKO and number 16 on WMEX (AM)^{[citation needed]}. The song received immediate heavy airplay too on the former WVBF (FM), often showing up in the #1 position on “The Top Five At Five” in June 1973.

The album version of “Dream On” (4:28, as opposed to the 3:25 1973 45rpm edit) was re-issued in late 1975, debuting at number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on January 10, 1976, breaking into the Top 40 on February 14 and peaking at number 6 on April 10. Columbia Records chose to service Top 40 radio stations with both long and short versions of the song; thus, many 1976 pop radio listeners were exposed to the group’s first Top 10 effort through the 45 edit.

“Dream On” was first played live in Mansfield, Connecticut, at the Shaboo Inn.^[4] In a 2011 interview, Tyler reminisced about his father, a Juilliard-trained musician. He recalled lying beneath his dad’s piano as a three-year-old listening to him play classical music. “That’s where I got that Dream On chordage,” he said.^[5]

Although the songs vocals were often performed by their drummer Joey Kramer, originally, Tyler says that this was the only song on the band’s first album where he used his real voice. He was insecure about how his voice sounded on tape, so for the other songs, he tried to sing a bit lower and sound more like soul artists, such as James Brown.^[4] The song is also famous for its building climax to showcase Tyler’s trademark screams. The main riff and chorus of the song were sampled in the 2002 song “Sing for the Moment” by rapper Eminem on The Eminem Show that also features a solo from Joe Perry. The song is composed in the key of F minor.

Single track listings

7″ 45 RPM

Side one

1. “Dream On”

Side two

1. “Somebody”

The original 1973 issue of this 45 (45894) has a shorter edit of “Dream On” (3:25). Most of the intro has been edited out and the first chorus is replaced with the second chorus. The second issue from 1976 (10278) contains the album version (4:28).

CD-Maxi

1. “Dream On”
2. “Dream On” [Live]
3. “Walk This Way“

Chart performance

Live performances

Long a concert staple, the song’s piano part has been played live by Tyler. The band has also played “Dream On” with an orchestra on a couple of occasions. One of these performances, conducted by Michael Kamen, was performed live for MTV‘s 10th Anniversary (in 1991) and included on the soundtrack for the movie Last Action Hero. Additionally, in 2006, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry performed the song live with the Boston Pops Orchestra at their Fourth of July spectacular. On September 19, 2006, Aerosmith dedicated the song to captured Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser. On September 22, 2007, at a concert in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Aerosmith dedicated the song to one of their fans, Monica Massaro, who had been murdered earlier that year. In August 2010, Tyler performed much of the song on a grand piano on top of the “Green Monster” at an Aerosmith concert at Fenway Park in Boston, before the rest of the band joined in to close out the song. On May 25, 2013, Tyler performed a brief rendition of the song live during the finale of the tenth season of American Idol. After the Boston Marathon Attacks, Tyler performed the song at the Boston Strong Concert.

Music video

A coinciding video directed by Marty Callner was also created at the MTV 10th anniversary special performance with the orchestra.

Personnel

• Steven Tyler – lead vocals, electric harpsichord, mellotron
• Joe Perry – guitar
• Brad Whitford – guitar
• Tom Hamilton – bass guitar
• Joey Kramer – drums

Appearances on other albums

The song has appeared on almost every Aerosmith greatest hits and live compilation, including:

• Live! Bootleg
• Greatest Hits
• Classics Live I
• A Little South of Sanity
• Big Ones (as a bonus track in CD 2)
• Young Lust: The Aerosmith Anthology
• O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits
• Devil’s Got a New Disguise
• Music from the Original Motion Picture “Last Action Hero”

It also appears on both of the band’s box sets.

Achievements

The song “Dream On” is part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.^[8] It is also ranked #173 on Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Cover versions

• In 1988, Greg X. Volz formerly of Petra covered this song on the album Come Out Fighting.
• In 1988, the song was covered by The Mission on their album Children.
• In 1994, Andru Donalds covered the song for his self-titled album.
• In 1999, Ronnie James Dio, Yngwie Malmsteen, Stu Hamm, Gregg Bissonette and Paul Taylor covered the song for the Aerosmith tribute album Not the Same Old Song and Dance. Additional guitars were by the album’s producers Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet.
• In 2002, “Dream On” was covered by Fisher on their Uppers & Downers dual-disc album. The cover version performed by Fisher was featured in the series-finale episode of the NBC drama Windfall.
• In 2002, the main riff and chorus of the song were sampled in the 2002 song “Sing for the Moment” by rapper Eminem.
• In 2002, an instrumental jazz cover of the song by Alex Skolnick Trio was included on their album Goodbye to Romance: Standards for a New Generation.
• In 2005, Michael Angelo Batio included an instrumental cover of this song on his album Hands Without Shadows.
• In 2005, Tori Amos covered the song during her live performance at the B of A Pavilion in Boston, MA. A recording of the song was included on her The Original Bootlegs 6-CD release.
• In 2007, electropop singer-songwriter Kelly Sweet covered the song on her debut album We Are One.
• In 2008, power metal band HolyHell covered the song during their live performance at Magic Circle Festival 2008 in Bad Arolsen, Germany. A recording of the performance was released on Magic Circle Festival 2008 DVD.
• In 2010, metalcore band Blessthefall recorded a cover of the song for the compilation cover album Punk Goes Classic Rock, which is part of the Punk Goes… series.
• In 2010, Neil Patrick Harris and Matthew Morrison covered the song as a duet in the TV series Glee.
• In 2011, Reece Mastin, winner of the Australian edition of The X Factor, covered this song for his eponymous album.
• In 2011, American post-grunge band Cold covered this song which later appeared on their fifth album Superfiction as bonus track.
• In 2012, Anastacia covered the song for her fifth studio album It’s a Man’s World. The song was released as album’s lead single, only in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
• In 2013, Martha Wash (of The Weather Girls fame) covered the song for her album Something Good.
• In 2014, American Idol winner of season 13 Caleb Johnson performed the song and released a studio version for the deluxe edition of his album Testify.
• In 2016, Postmodern Jukebox featuring Morgan James covered the song on the PMJ YouTube channel.

Live cover performances

• Danny Gokey sang this song on season 8 of American Idol in 2009 during the Top 4 round. He received negative reviews from the judges, and was also mocked in many media outlets for a long, ear-splitting scream at the end of the song.^[9][10][11]
• Andy Mac Unfraidh performed the song during the live shows of second series of The Voice of Ireland.
• Amanda Brown sang this song in the live playoffs of season 3 of The Voice.
• “Dream On” was covered by the American rock band Train on an episode of the MTV show Icon, that was dedicated to Aerosmith.

Koryn Hawthorne sang the song in the live Top 6 of season 8 of The Voice. Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys – the latest group of Voice coaches – united on Sunday’s Season 11 premiere for an explosive rendition of Aerosmith’s 1973 rock epic “Dream On.” The singers dedicated their performance to former contestant Christina Grimmie, who was shot and killed in June following an Orlando concert, according to Ryan Reed of Rolling Stone, August 22, 2016

Sampling

• In 2002, the song was sampled by American rapper Eminem for the song “Sing for the Moment“, from his 2002 album The Eminem Show. Joe Perry played the guitar solo on the track and Steven Tyler also sang the chorus for the track, with Eminem adding “sing”, “sing with me” and “come on” in the refrain as well.
• In 2011, the song was sampled by Immortal Technique on his song “Angels & Demons”, on his album The Martyr.

In other media

• “Dream On” was featured in the 2008 video game Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. For this, a re-recording was made not officially published outside of the game.
• “Dream On” was used as the background music for Adobe Systems’ 25th anniversary of Photoshop TV spot.^[12]
• “Dream On” was used on a promotional advertisement for CNN‘s documentary on the 1970s entitled The Seventies.^[13]
• “Dream On” was used on the introduction montage of Super Bowl 50. The song appears when director Ron Howard pulls actor Kevin Bacon out of the interview about him and numerous celebrities’ best Super Bowl memories, and begins to interview players from both the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers regarding what it meant to play in the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl. The version of the song is unknown.^[14]
• “Dream On” was used on a promotional advertisement for Walmart, aired during 2016 Rio Olympics.^[15]

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———

[Intro: Steven Tyler]
Come here, baby
You know you drive me up a wall?
The way you make good on all the nasty tricks you pull
Seems like we’re makin’ up more than we’re makin’ love
And it always seems you got somethin’ on your mind other than me
Girl, you got to change your crazy ways
You hear me?

[Verse One: Aerosmith]
Say you’re leavin’ on a seven thirty train and that you’re headin’
Out to Hollywood
Girl you been givin’ me that line so many times it kinda gets like
Feelin’ bad looks good

[Bridge: Aerosmith]
That kinda loving
Turns a man to a slave
That kinda loving
Sends a man right to his grave

[Chorus: Aerosmith]
I go crazy, crazy, baby, I go crazy
You turn it on
Then you’re gone
Yeah you drive me
Crazy, crazy, crazy, for you baby
What can I do, honey
I feel like the color blue

[Verse Two: Aerosmith]
You’re packing up your stuff and talking like it’s tough and trying
To tell me that it’s time to go
But I know you ain’t wearing nothing underneath that overcoat
And it’s all a show

[Bridge: Aerosmith]
That kind of loving
Makes me want to pull
Down the shade, yeah
That kind of loving
Yeah now I’m never, never, never, never gonna be the same

[Chorus: Aerosmith]
I go crazy, crazy, baby, I go crazy
You turn it on
Then you’re gone
Yeah you drive me
Crazy, crazy, crazy, for you baby
What can I do, honey
I feel like the color blue

[Bridge: Aerosmith]
I’m losing my mind, girl
Cause I’m going crazy
I need your love, honey
I need your love

[Outro: Aerosmith]
Crazy, crazy, crazy, I go crazy
You turn it on
Then you’re gone
Yeah you drive me
Crazy, crazy, crazy, for you baby
I’m losing my mind, girl
Cause I’m going crazy
Crazy, crazy, crazy for you baby
You turn it on, then your gone
Yeah you drive me

“Crazy” is a power ballad performed by American hard rock band Aerosmith and written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Desmond Child. It was the final single from their massively successful 1993 album Get a Grip. It was released as a single in 1994 and peaked at #17 on the Billboard Hot 100, #7 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and #3 in Canada. In the United Kingdom, it was released as a double-A side with “Blind Man“, which reached #23.

Track listing

Music video

The video for the song was directed by Marty Callner and received heavy rotation on MTV. It was one of the most requested videos of 1994.^[1] It featured the third appearance of Alicia Silverstone in the band’s videos, and was the career debut of Steven’s then-teenaged daughter Liv Tyler. The decision to cast Liv in the video for “Crazy” was based on the video’s creators having seen her in a Pantene commercial.

The video is film-like and depicts the two as schoolgirls who skip class and run away, driving off in a black Ford Mustang convertible in a manner similar to the 1991 hit film Thelma & Louise.^[1] The two use their good looks to take advantage of a service station clerk, and needing money, enter an amateur pole-dancing competition. The video is noteworthy for its risque and sexually suggestive scenes. The video is edited to show the similarities in stage moves of Steven Tyler and daughter Liv. The girls win the dance competition, then spend the night in a motel. They continue their joyride the following day, where they encounter a young sweaty and shirtless farmer (played by model Dean Kelly) aboard a tractor tilling land in the countryside. They persuade him to join them in their journey, where they all go skinny dipping in a lake. The girls take off with his clothes and leave him behind at the lake. Naked, he chases after them, and rejoins them in the convertible. The final seconds of the video show the word “Crazy” spelled out in cursive in the cropland by the still-running tractor.

Jason London makes a short cameo at the end in a tag scene, reprising his character from the “Amazing” video.

Director’s cut

A longer director’s cut of the video appears on the compilation Big Ones You Can Look At. This version features a few more provocative clips, and a longer, more risque version of the pole-dancing competition scene. It also removes the scene in which the girls abandon the farmer after skinny-dipping with him. Both versions of the video include an extra reprise of the chorus which is not included on the album and radio versions.^[2]

Accolades

The song was the second highest chart performance for the band out of all the singles for Get a Grip. It also earned the band a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal in 1994. This was the band’s second Grammy win for Get a Grip and third overall.

The video for “Crazy” was selected #23 in VH1‘s Top 100 Music Videos of All Time.

Year-end charts

Legacy

The song appeared on a several compilations including Big Ones, A Little South of Sanity, O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits and Devil’s Got a New Disguise. Despite bringing much success for the band in the mid-1990s, Aerosmith rarely performed it on tour until it was added to international shows on their 2007 World Tour due to overwhelming demand from fans. It is covered in Glee by Jacob Artist and Melissa Benoist, mashed up with Britney Spears‘ “(You Drive Me) Crazy.”

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Music video by Aerosmith performing Crazy. (C) 1994 Geffen Records

[Verse 1]
I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
While you’re far away and dreaming
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lost in this moment forever
Every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure

[Chorus]
Don’t want to close my eyes
I don’t want to fall asleep
Cause I’d miss you, baby
And I don’t wanna miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream would never do
I’d still miss you, baby
And I don’t want to miss a thing

[Verse 2]
Lying close to you feeling your heart beating
And I’m wondering what you’re dreaming
Wondering if it’s me you’re seeing
Then I kiss your eyes and thank God we’re together
And I just want to stay with you
In this moment forever, forever and ever

[Chorus]
Don’t want to close my eyes
I don’t want to fall asleep
Cause I’d miss you, baby
And I don’t wanna miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream would never do
I’d still miss you, baby
And I don’t want to miss a thing

[Verse 3]
I don’t want to miss one smile
I don’t want to miss one kiss
Well, I just want to be with you
Right here with you, just like this
I just want to hold you close
I feel your heart so close to mine
And just stay here in this moment
For the rest of time, yeah, yeah, yeah!

[Chorus]
Don’t want to close my eyes
I don’t want to fall asleep
Cause I’d miss you, baby
And I don’t wanna miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream would never do
I’d still miss you, baby
And I don’t want to miss a thing
Don’t want to close my eyes
I don’t want to fall asleep
Cause I’d miss you, baby
And I don’t wanna miss a thing
Cause even when I dream of you
The sweetest dream would never do
I’d still miss you, baby
And I don’t want to miss a thing

[Outro]
Don’t want to close my eyes
I don’t want to fall asleep, yeah
I don’t want to miss a thing

“I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” is a power ballad^[2] performed by American hard rock band Aerosmith for the 1998 film Armageddon which Steven Tyler‘s daughter Liv Tyler starred in. Written by Diane Warren, the song debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (the first #1 for the band after 28 years together). It is one of three songs performed by the band for the film, the other two being “What Kind of Love Are You On” and “Sweet Emotion“. The song stayed at number one for four weeks from September 5 to 26, 1998. The song also stayed at number 1 for several weeks in several other countries. It sold over a million copies in the UK and reached number four on the UK Singles Chart.^[3]

This song was also featured in the 2013 video game Saints Row IV. The track was also heard in an episode of “Jewelpet Sunshine” which is the third season of the Jewelpet franchise.

Inspiration

In 1997, Diane Warren was watching Barbara Walters interview James Brolin and Barbra Streisand. Brolin said he missed Streisand when they were asleep, and Warren wrote down the words “I don’t want to miss a thing”, before there was even a song.^[4]

Reception

This song was Aerosmith’s biggest hit, debuting at number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed for four weeks in September, and reaching number 1 in many countries around the world, including Australia, the Philippines, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Norway, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

The chorus of the song is highly reminiscent of an earlier song Diane Warren co-wrote, “Just Like Jesse James“, which appeared on Cher‘s 1989 album Heart of Stone.

The song helped open up Aerosmith to a new generation^[5] and remains a slow dance staple.^[6]

It was one of many songs written by Warren in that time period. The original version was a collaboration between Chicago musician Phil Kosch of Treaty of Paris and Super Happy Fun Club, and nephew of chart topping writer Lou Bega. Bega introduced the two and they penned the initial track, but ultimately Kosch was left uncredited.

The song is notable for having been nominated for both an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song.

Track listing

CD single

1. “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” – 4:57
2. “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” (Rock Mix) – 4:30
3. “Taste of India” (Rock Remix) – 5:52
4. “Animal Crackers” – 2:35

The song appeared on the Argentine version and a European re-released version of the album Nine Lives. It also appeared on the Japanese version of Just Push Play.

CD single 2

1. “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” (Pop Mix) – 5:03
2. “Pink” (live) – 3:48
3. “Crash” – 4:30

“Crash” and the original “Pink” appeared as tracks 9 and 11, respectively, on all versions of Nine Lives.

CD single 3

1. “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” – 4:57
2. “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” (Rock Mix) – 4:30
3. “Crash” – 4:30
4. “Animal Crackers” – 2:35

Music video

The music video for this song was shot at the Minneapolis Armory in 1998 and was directed by Francis Lawrence.^[7] It features the band playing the song intertwined with scenes from the film Armageddon. It features an appearance by Steven Tyler‘s daughter Liv, who plays Grace Stamper in the film. Steven Tyler injured his knee the day before the shoot, so they used a lot of close-ups because his movement was limited.

The video begins with shots of the moon in orbit and several asteroids passing by safely and then a view of Earth before zooming in to show Steven Tyler singing. The shots interchange between the band and Mission Control viewing the band singing via their monitors. As the video progresses it reveals that the band is playing in front of what appears to be the fictional Space Shuttle Freedom. Along with Aerosmith, a full hand orchestra plays in sync with the melody. Then smoke surrounds the orchestra and the members of Aerosmith as Freedom takes off from the launch pad. Finally, the screen goes out as a tearful Grace touches one of the monitors to reach out to her father (real life father Steven Tyler in the video; on-screen father Harry Stamper, played by Bruce Willis, in the film).

The video was highly successful and greatly contributed to the song’s success, receiving heavy airplay on MTV and went on to become the second most popular video of 1998, only behind Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy is Mine“. It also won awards for MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film, and Best Video at Boston Music Awards.

Charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA)[39]	2× Platinum	140,000
Austria (IFPI)[40]	Gold	25,000
France (SNEP)[41]	Silver	125,000
Germany (BVMI)[42]	Platinum	500,000
Italy (FIMI)[43]	Gold	25,000
Japan (RIAJ)[44]	Gold	100,000^
Norway (IFPI)[45]	Platinum	7,500
Sweden (IFPI)[46]	2× Platinum	60,000
Switzerland (IFPI)[47]	Platinum	50,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[48]	2× Platinum	1,200,000
United States (RIAA)[49]	Platinum	1,000,000
*sales figures based on certification alone ^shipments figures based on certification alone sales+streaming figures based on certification alone

Mark Chesnutt version

In late 1998, country music artist Mark Chesnutt recorded a cover version of the song. His rendition is the first single and title track from his 1999 album of the same name.^[52] Chesnutt’s cover spent two weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts in early 1999, and is the last of his eight number ones on that chart. It is also the first of only two singles in his career to reach the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number 17 in early 1999.

Other appearances

• In 2011 Michael Guy Bowman covered the song for the webcomic Homestuck.^[59] It appeared in a flash animation on the webcomic in June 2012.^[60] The song was released on Homestuck Vol. 6: Heir Transparent in January 2011.^[61]
• In 2013, another country version of the song was released, this time by Derek Ryan
• In 2014 Maltese child singer Veronica Rotin covered this on her debut album, Veronica Rotin.^[62]
• In 2014, as part of their album, Just The Tip…, comedy rock lounge act The Lounge Kittens covered the song.
• AT&T/DirecTV introduced a series of advertisements for the 2017 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament featuring CBS Sports personality Greg Gumbel and comedian Dan Finnerty, the latter performs the song with lyrics tailored to the scene (generally people at work while March Madness games are occurring).^[63]

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———

[Verse 1]
There was a time
When I was so broken hearted
Love wasn’t much of a friend of mine
The tables have turned, yeah
Cause me and them ways have parted
That kind of love was the killin’ kind
Now listen
All I want is someone I can’t resist
I know all I need to know by the way that I got kissed

[Chorus]
I was crying when I met you
Now I’m trying to forget you
Your love is sweet misery
I was crying just to get you
Now I’m dying cause I let you
Do what you do – down on me

[Bridge]
Now there’s not even breathing room
Between pleasure and pain
Yeah, you cry when we’re making love
Must be one and the same

[Verse 2]
It’s down on me
Yeah I got to tell you one thing
It’s been on my mind
Girl, I gotta say
We’re partners in crime
You got that certain something
What you give to me
Takes my breath away
Now the word out on the street
Is the devil’s in your kiss
If our love goes up in flames
It’s a fire I can’t resist

[Chorus]

[Bridge II]
Cause what you got inside
Ain’t where your love should stay
Yeah, love, sweet love, ain’t love
‘Til you give your heart away

[Chorus/Outro]
I was cryin’ when I met you
Now I’m tryin’ to forget you
Your love is sweet misery
I was cryin’ just to get you
Now I’m dyin’ just to let you
Do what you do what you do down to me
Baby, baby, baby
I was cryin’ when I met you
Now I’m tryin’ to forget you
Your love is sweet misery
I was cryin’ when I met you
Now I’m dyin’ cause I let you
Do what you do down to , down to, down to, down to
I was cryin’ when I met you
Now I’m dyin’ to forget you
Your love is sweet
I was cryin’ when I met you

“Cryin’” is a power ballad by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Taylor Rhodes. It was released by Geffen Records on June 20, 1993 as a single from their April release, Get a Grip. The single went gold and sold 600,000 copies.^[2][3] The song’s music video features Alicia Silverstone, Stephen Dorff and Josh Holloway.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Music video

The music video for the song, directed by Marty Callner, features the first appearance of Alicia Silverstone in the band’s videos, as well as the band performing in the Central Congregational Church in Fall River, Massachusetts. The song flashes back and forth between the band and Alicia Silverstone, who plays a teen who has a falling out with her boyfriend (played by Stephen Dorff) after catching him cheating. She feigns an attempt to kiss him, but instead leans away annoying him. She then punches him and shoves him out of the car leaving him in the dust. She begins a phase of rebellion and individuality and gets a navel piercing, which has largely been credited as introducing navel piercing to mainstream culture.^[16] After having her purse stolen by another young man (played by then-unknown Josh Holloway of Lost), she chases him down and knocks him to the ground. The video then cuts to her standing on the edge of an overpass bridge, contemplating jumping. Her ex-boyfriend arrives on the scene, along with numerous police officers, encouraging her to come down from the overpass. She jumps, but a rope is revealed, arresting her fall and leaving her dangling over the freeway, laughing at Dorff’s character. The video ends with the dangling Silverstone looking up at Dorff and giving him the finger.

The video was a smash success on MTV, becoming one of the most requested videos in 1993, and earning the band several awards at the Video Music Awards.

Awards

• MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year, 1994^[17]
• MTV Video Music Award for Viewer’s Choice, 1994^[17]
• MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video, 1994^[17]

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[Verse]
I’m down a one way street
With a one night stand
With a one track mind
Out in no man’s land
The punishment sometimes
Don’t seem to fit the crime

Yeah there’s a hole in my soul
But one thing I learned
For every love letter written
Is another one burned
So you tell me how it’s gonna be this time

[Pre-Chorus]
Is it over?
Is it over?
Cause I’m blowing out the flame

[Chorus]
Take a walk outside your mind
Tell me how it feels to be
The one who turns the knife inside of me

Take a look and you will find there’s nothing there girl
Yeah I swear, I’m telling you girl yeah cause
There’s a hole in my soul that’s been killing me forever
It’s a place where a garden never grows
There’s a hole in my soul, yeah I should have known better
Cause your love’s like a thorn without a rose

[Verse 2]
I’m as dry as a seven year drought
I got dust for tears
And I’m all tapped out
Sometimes I feel broke, can’t get fixed

I know there’s been all kinds of shoes
Underneath your bed
Now I sleep with my boots on
But you’re still in my head
And something tells me this time
I’m down to my last licks

[Pre-Chorus]
Cause if it’s over
Then it’s over
And it’s driving me insane

[Chorus]
Take a walk outside your mind
Tell me how it feels to be
The one who turns
The knife inside of me
Take a look and you will find
There’s nothing there, girl, yeah, I swear
I’m telling you girl yeah ’cause

There’s a hole in my soul
That’s been killing me forever
It’s a place where a garden never grows
There’s a hole in my soul
Yeah, I should have known better
Cause your love’s like a thorn without a rose
Yeah, yeah

[Bridge]
Yeah, is it over?
Yeah, it’s over
And I’m blowing out the flame

[Chorus]

“Hole in My Soul” is a power ballad performed by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and professional songwriter and longtime Aerosmith collaborator Desmond Child. It was released as the second major single from Nine Lives in 1997.

Chart positions

The song reached #51 on the Billboard Hot 100, #4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, #29 in the United Kingdom, and #4 in Latvia.

Track listing

Hole in My Soul – yellow – 450124

Hole in My Soul – red – 450155

Lyrical interpretation

The song is a ballad, one of Aerosmith‘s more emotional ones. It is also lengthy, running just over six minutes. The lyrics focus on a heartbroken man who feels very sad and emotionally damaged (“I got dust for tears and I’m all tapped out”) by a failed relationship (“tell me how it feels to be the one who turns the knife inside of me”) and feels that there is a void in his life that cannot be filled (“there’s a hole in my soul that’s been killing me forever”).

In concert

In concert, Steven Tyler has been known to substitute some lines with racier lyrics. On a live version of the song from the A Little South of Sanity album, Tyler sings “I fuck with my boots on cause you fuck with my head” instead of the studio version lyrics “I sleep with my boots on, but you’re still in my head.”

The band played the song heavily on their lengthy Nine Lives Tour from 1997–1999, but has almost never played it since.

Music video

Directed by Andy Morahan,^[1] the video featured a nerdy high school student (played by Branden Williams), often picked on, who is unsuccessful in finding the right girl. He uses his scientific genius to build a cloning machine and creates a beautiful girl (played by Eva Mendes), but she meets someone else at a party. He creates another who he also loses to a football player (played by Seann William Scott). A classmate (played by Alexandra Holden) discovers his machine and stops him from creating another girl for himself, and he realizes the girl for him had been there all along.

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[Verse 1]
Everytime that I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone, it went by like dusk to dawn
Isn’t that the way, everybody got the dues in life to pay
I know nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it’s everybody’s sin
You got to lose to know how to win

[Verse 2]
Half my life’s in books written pages
Lived and learned from fools and from sages
You know it’s true
All the things come back to you

[Chorus]
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing with me, just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord’ll take you away

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing with me, just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord’ll take you away

[Bridge]
Dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream until your dream come true
Dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream until your dream come true

Dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream on
Dream on

[Chorus]
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing with me, just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord’ll take you away
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing with me, just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord’ll take you away

“Dream On” is a power ballad by Aerosmith from their 1973 debut album, Aerosmith.^[3] Written by lead singer Steven Tyler, this song was their first major hit and became a classic rock radio staple. Released in June 1973, it peaked at number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100 but hit big in the band’s native Boston, where it was the number one single of the year on WBZ-FM, number five for the year on WRKO and number 16 on WMEX (AM)^{[citation needed]}. The song received immediate heavy airplay too on the former WVBF (FM), often showing up in the #1 position on “The Top Five At Five” in June 1973.

The album version of “Dream On” (4:28, as opposed to the 3:25 1973 45rpm edit) was re-issued in late 1975, debuting at number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on January 10, 1976, breaking into the Top 40 on February 14 and peaking at number 6 on April 10. Columbia Records chose to service Top 40 radio stations with both long and short versions of the song; thus, many 1976 pop radio listeners were exposed to the group’s first Top 10 effort through the 45 edit.

“Dream On” was first played live in Mansfield, Connecticut, at the Shaboo Inn.^[4] In a 2011 interview, Tyler reminisced about his father, a Juilliard-trained musician. He recalled lying beneath his dad’s piano as a three-year-old listening to him play classical music. “That’s where I got that Dream On chordage,” he said.^[5]

Although the songs vocals were often performed by their drummer Joey Kramer, originally, Tyler says that this was the only song on the band’s first album where he used his real voice. He was insecure about how his voice sounded on tape, so for the other songs, he tried to sing a bit lower and sound more like soul artists, such as James Brown.^[4] The song is also famous for its building climax to showcase Tyler’s trademark screams. The main riff and chorus of the song were sampled in the 2002 song “Sing for the Moment” by rapper Eminem on The Eminem Show that also features a solo from Joe Perry. The song is composed in the key of F minor.

Single track listings

7″ 45 RPM

Side one

1. “Dream On”

Side two

1. “Somebody”

The original 1973 issue of this 45 (45894) has a shorter edit of “Dream On” (3:25). Most of the intro has been edited out and the first chorus is replaced with the second chorus. The second issue from 1976 (10278) contains the album version (4:28).

CD-Maxi

1. “Dream On”
2. “Dream On” [Live]
3. “Walk This Way“

Chart performance

Live performances

Long a concert staple, the song’s piano part has been played live by Tyler. The band has also played “Dream On” with an orchestra on a couple of occasions. One of these performances, conducted by Michael Kamen, was performed live for MTV‘s 10th Anniversary (in 1991) and included on the soundtrack for the movie Last Action Hero. Additionally, in 2006, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry performed the song live with the Boston Pops Orchestra at their Fourth of July spectacular. On September 19, 2006, Aerosmith dedicated the song to captured Israeli soldier Ehud Goldwasser. On September 22, 2007, at a concert in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Aerosmith dedicated the song to one of their fans, Monica Massaro, who had been murdered earlier that year. In August 2010, Tyler performed much of the song on a grand piano on top of the “Green Monster” at an Aerosmith concert at Fenway Park in Boston, before the rest of the band joined in to close out the song. On May 25, 2013, Tyler performed a brief rendition of the song live during the finale of the tenth season of American Idol. After the Boston Marathon Attacks, Tyler performed the song at the Boston Strong Concert.

Music video

A coinciding video directed by Marty Callner was also created at the MTV 10th anniversary special performance with the orchestra.

Personnel

• Steven Tyler – lead vocals, electric harpsichord, mellotron
• Joe Perry – guitar
• Brad Whitford – guitar
• Tom Hamilton – bass guitar
• Joey Kramer – drums

Appearances on other albums

The song has appeared on almost every Aerosmith greatest hits and live compilation, including:

• Live! Bootleg
• Greatest Hits
• Classics Live I
• A Little South of Sanity
• Big Ones (as a bonus track in CD 2)
• Young Lust: The Aerosmith Anthology
• O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits
• Devil’s Got a New Disguise
• Music from the Original Motion Picture “Last Action Hero”

It also appears on both of the band’s box sets.

Achievements

The song “Dream On” is part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.^[8] It is also ranked #173 on Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Cover versions

• In 1988, Greg X. Volz formerly of Petra covered this song on the album Come Out Fighting.
• In 1988, the song was covered by The Mission on their album Children.
• In 1994, Andru Donalds covered the song for his self-titled album.
• In 1999, Ronnie James Dio, Yngwie Malmsteen, Stu Hamm, Gregg Bissonette and Paul Taylor covered the song for the Aerosmith tribute album Not the Same Old Song and Dance. Additional guitars were by the album’s producers Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet.
• In 2002, “Dream On” was covered by Fisher on their Uppers & Downers dual-disc album. The cover version performed by Fisher was featured in the series-finale episode of the NBC drama Windfall.
• In 2002, the main riff and chorus of the song were sampled in the 2002 song “Sing for the Moment” by rapper Eminem.
• In 2002, an instrumental jazz cover of the song by Alex Skolnick Trio was included on their album Goodbye to Romance: Standards for a New Generation.
• In 2005, Michael Angelo Batio included an instrumental cover of this song on his album Hands Without Shadows.
• In 2005, Tori Amos covered the song during her live performance at the B of A Pavilion in Boston, MA. A recording of the song was included on her The Original Bootlegs 6-CD release.
• In 2007, electropop singer-songwriter Kelly Sweet covered the song on her debut album We Are One.
• In 2008, power metal band HolyHell covered the song during their live performance at Magic Circle Festival 2008 in Bad Arolsen, Germany. A recording of the performance was released on Magic Circle Festival 2008 DVD.
• In 2010, metalcore band Blessthefall recorded a cover of the song for the compilation cover album Punk Goes Classic Rock, which is part of the Punk Goes… series.
• In 2010, Neil Patrick Harris and Matthew Morrison covered the song as a duet in the TV series Glee.
• In 2011, Reece Mastin, winner of the Australian edition of The X Factor, covered this song for his eponymous album.
• In 2011, American post-grunge band Cold covered this song which later appeared on their fifth album Superfiction as bonus track.
• In 2012, Anastacia covered the song for her fifth studio album It’s a Man’s World. The song was released as album’s lead single, only in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
• In 2013, Martha Wash (of The Weather Girls fame) covered the song for her album Something Good.
• In 2014, American Idol winner of season 13 Caleb Johnson performed the song and released a studio version for the deluxe edition of his album Testify.
• In 2016, Postmodern Jukebox featuring Morgan James covered the song on the PMJ YouTube channel.

Live cover performances

• Danny Gokey sang this song on season 8 of American Idol in 2009 during the Top 4 round. He received negative reviews from the judges, and was also mocked in many media outlets for a long, ear-splitting scream at the end of the song.^[9][10][11]
• Andy Mac Unfraidh performed the song during the live shows of second series of The Voice of Ireland.
• Amanda Brown sang this song in the live playoffs of season 3 of The Voice.
• “Dream On” was covered by the American rock band Train on an episode of the MTV show Icon, that was dedicated to Aerosmith.

Koryn Hawthorne sang the song in the live Top 6 of season 8 of The Voice. Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys – the latest group of Voice coaches – united on Sunday’s Season 11 premiere for an explosive rendition of Aerosmith’s 1973 rock epic “Dream On.” The singers dedicated their performance to former contestant Christina Grimmie, who was shot and killed in June following an Orlando concert, according to Ryan Reed of Rolling Stone, August 22, 2016

Sampling

• In 2002, the song was sampled by American rapper Eminem for the song “Sing for the Moment“, from his 2002 album The Eminem Show. Joe Perry played the guitar solo on the track and Steven Tyler also sang the chorus for the track, with Eminem adding “sing”, “sing with me” and “come on” in the refrain as well.
• In 2011, the song was sampled by Immortal Technique on his song “Angels & Demons”, on his album The Martyr.

In other media

• “Dream On” was featured in the 2008 video game Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. For this, a re-recording was made not officially published outside of the game.
• “Dream On” was used as the background music for Adobe Systems’ 25th anniversary of Photoshop TV spot.^[12]
• “Dream On” was used on a promotional advertisement for CNN‘s documentary on the 1970s entitled The Seventies.^[13]
• “Dream On” was used on the introduction montage of Super Bowl 50. The song appears when director Ron Howard pulls actor Kevin Bacon out of the interview about him and numerous celebrities’ best Super Bowl memories, and begins to interview players from both the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers regarding what it meant to play in the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl. The version of the song is unknown.^[14]
• “Dream On” was used on a promotional advertisement for Walmart, aired during 2016 Rio Olympics.^[15]