Aerosmith have made a mockery of author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous maxim ‘There are no second acts in American lives.’ America’s greatest hard rock band throughout the 1970s, the Boston quintet imploded at the end of the decade as egos and drug habits spiralled out of control, only to re-emerge in the mid-‘80s to stage a spectacular comeback which saw their raunchy, blues-driven rock’n’roll strike a chord with a new generation of fans.
In more recent times the Aerosmith bandwagon has wobbled precariously as vocalist Steven Tyler’s preoccupation with parallel careers in country music and reality TV sparked rumours that the band might even take to the road without him. They didn't.
