“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 photographed backstage in 1976.

Aerosmith were destined for stardom from the start, but it took them until their third album, 1975’s Toys In The Attic, to get there. In 2015, on the album’s 40th anniversary, singer Steven Tyler, guitarist Joe Perry and bassist Tom Hamilton looked back on the making of an American classic.