Aerosmith
Steven Tyler was seventeen when he first sat at an upright piano at a summer lodge in New Hampshire and started working out the melody that would become "Dream On." When Aerosmith recorded it in 1973, the single stalled at number 59. Columbia Records had other priorities. There was a debut album from some kid named Springsteen to worry about. The song was re-released in 1975 and climbed to number 6, as if it had simply been waiting for the world to catch up. It entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018.
In our deep dive into Dream On, we trace the song from a teenager's piano to one of rock's most enduring anthems, and what it reveals about a band that almost didn't make it.
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