Steven Victor Tallarico was born in New York City on this day in 1948. The future front man of Aerosmith is the son of a classical pianist that taught music at a Bronx high school.
A close encounter with the Rolling Stones outside their New York hotel in 1965 and subsequent remarks by friends about his resemblance to Mick Jagger probably helped cast his fate.
Tyler first encountered Joe Perry and Tom Hamilton at a 1969 Sunapee, New Hampshire concert playing in a group known as the Jam Band. The following year, the three of them and Tyler's New York friends Joey Kramer and Ray Tabano moved to Boston. Tabano got replaced by Brad Whitford later that year.
Tyler and the group's big break came on August 5th, 1972. Aerosmith booked a showcase performance at Max's Kansas City, a New York club on Park Avenue that was instrumental in the early careers of dozens of musicians that would go on to become household names. Clive Davis was there for it and signed the group to a Columbia Records contract on the strength of their set.
Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on March 26 include...
1948 Boston's Fran Sheehan was born.
1948 Electric Light Orchestra's Richard Tandy born.
1965 Jeff Beck took Eric Clapton's place in the Yardbirds.
1965 Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman and Brian Jones all get electric jolts through microphones during a Stones concert in Denmark.
1969 The Allman Brothers Band forms.
1969 Newley weds John Lennon and Yoko Ono open their bed-in for peace honeymoon at the Amsterdam Hilton.
1971 Emerson, Lake and Palmer record Pictures at an Exhibition.
1972 Mott The Hoople disbands
1975 The Who's Tommy film debuts in London.
1976 Santana releases Amigos.
1980 Van Halen releases Women and Children First.
1985 Tom Petty releases Southern Accents.
1986 Guns N' Roses signs with Geffen Records.
1987 Revolution becomes the first Beatles song used in a commercial (Nike).
1996 Stone Temple Pilots release Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop.
2002 Drummer Randy Castillo (Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, Lita Ford)) dies of cancer at 51.
2005 Crowded House, Split Enz member Paul Hester takes his own life at 46.
2019 A school book Paul McCartney had doodled some artwork in sells for almost $55,000.
2022 Genesis does it's last concert in London. The 25 song, two set + encore performance featuring the three principle members of the legendary band willing to perform together included songs from every era of the group's 55 years. 'That's All" was performed, but not as the final song. To the delight of the fans that consider the early to mid 70''s to be the years that the group produced it's best music, the final song was Carpet Crawlers from 1974's Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
