"I would say they saved Aerosmith, and they were kind of the sacrifice for that. "Before this record, they had already sold a couple million of their previous record, and they were young and energetic, and they were rising. Run-D.M.C., they were the first rap superstars," Edgers ( tells Here & Now's Robin Young.
And what in fact happened was Aerosmith - the fallen rock gods, who were really in terrible shape. "There's a false idea here that Aerosmith - the rock gods - came in and helped Run-D.M.C. The subsequent joint venture made music history.Įdgers tells the story in his new book " Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever," and says one of his goals while writing it was to revisit and revise the prevailing thinking about exactly which group helped which.
Maybe they could put their spin on the lyrics? producer and Aerosmith fan Rick Rubin had a thought: Maybe a mashup could help them both, specifically the Aerosmith monster hit "Walk This Way," off the 1975 album "Toys in the Attic." Rubin thought, Run-D.M.C. that there was a point where rap was just not in the mainstream, that if you wanted to hear it, you'd listen to a college radio station or you'd have to really seek it out," says Geoff Edgers, national arts reporter at The Washington Post. "It's very hard to understand today, when hip-hop is a part of every element of our culture. had hits, they didn't have air play - no hip-hop group did. passed them in the other direction.īut while Run-D.M.C. And as Aerosmith fell, rising hip-hop stars Run-D.M.C.
But then came the cliché: drug addiction for lead singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry, infighting and, by the 1980s, rock's bottom. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 4 years old.Īerosmith was one of the biggest stadium bands in the world in the 1970s. It's all here in an easy-to-read narrative with plenty of black-and-white illustrations!Available for purchase at:AmazonBarnes & NobleBooks A MillionHudson BooksellersIndieBoundPowell'sTargetWalmartApple Books - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Google Play Store - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Kobo - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)audiobooks."Walk This Way," by Geoff Edgers. Readers will learn about their childhoods in Liverpool, their first forays into rock music, what Beatlemania was like, and why they broke up. Almost everyone can sing along with the Beatles, but how many young readers know their whole story? Geoff Edgers, a Boston Globe reporter and hard-core Beatles fan, brings the Fab Four to life in this Who Was.? book.
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