Who knew that all it would take for Aerosmith to get right back at it again would be a bit of studio time with one of Doncaster’s most famous sons? But in a year that has seen Yungblud go from a very big deal to a genuine worldwide phenomenon – thanks partly to his top charting album Idols and even more so his show-stopping performance of Changes at Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning show - there are few artists better to consider associating and collaborating with right now.
What started as Dom Harrison contacting Steven Tyler and Joe Perry to see if they fancied adding their own lick of paint to his nine-minute epic Hello Heaven, Hello quickly developed into a proper body of work, the first with Aerosmith's name attached to it since 2012's Music From Another Dimension.
And that has evolved into a very public show of respect and admiration between the two parties over the last six months, most notably during a thrashing Ozzy Osbourne medley at the MTV VMA Awards.
It would be easy to be cynical about such a combination - of one of rock and roll's most celebrated assets and the new-ish kid on the block trying to hit the high notes together - but as One More Time booms and blasts, from an Aerosmith standpoint it becomes abundantly clear that this is some of their best work in nearly a quarter of a century. It's also some of Yungblud's best work of his whole career.
A couple of big statements, but these are some big songs.
