Happy Birthday to Steven Tyler, who turns 70 years old today. The lead singer and songwriter for Aerosmith, his high screams and on-stage acrobatics perfectly propelled hit singles like “Dream On”, “Sweet Emotion” and “Walk This Way. After drug rehab, he led the band in a remarkable comeback releasing the multi-platinum albums Permanent Vacation, Pump, Get a Grip, and Nine Lives, which produced a combined 13 Top 40 singles and won the band 4 Grammys. Raised in New York City by a classical pianist father, Tyler was also a judge on American Idol and the author of a bestselling book, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: a Rock ‘n’ Roll Memoir. WATCH him sing Amazing Grace with a church choir… (1948)
(2018 Photo of Steven Tyler by Gage Skidmore, CC)
MORE Good News on this Date:
- Voters in West Virginia approved the gradual emancipation of slaves (1863)
- Robert Frost, one of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century, was born (1874)
- Leonard Nimoy, the actor who portrayed the logical Mr. Spock on the Star Trek television series in the 1960s, was born…
