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Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith

Hang on, it's a hell of a ride!

From the band that lived by the motto "Anything worth doing was worth overdoing" Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, and Joey Kramer comes a quarter century of rock godhood: the life, the music, the truth, the hell, the lost years, and the raunchy, unsafe sex.

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And, of course, the drugs.

But after crashing in a suffocating cloud of cocaine, crystal meth, and heroin, Aerosmith rose up from the ashes to become clean and sober and reclaim their rightful title as World Champion Rockers. Learn how they did it in a book that is pure Aerosmith unbound: where they came from, what they are now, and what they will always be a great American band.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 528 pages

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