Aerosmith - Walk This Way - Toys In The Attic - YouTube Aerosmith - Walk This Way - Toys In The Attic Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Feb 7, 2010 CHECK OUT MY BAND! :) "Walk This Way" is a song by American hard rock group Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. It was originally released as the second single from their 1975 album Toys in the Attic. It peaked at Number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1977, part of a string of successful hit singles for the band in the 1970s.

In addition to being one of the songs that helped break Aerosmith into the mainstream in the 1970s, it also helped resurrect their career and revolutionized the new hybrid sub-musical genre of "rock and rap", or the molding of rock and hip hop music when it was covered by rappers Run-D.M.C. in 1986 on their album Raising Hell. It became an international hit and won both groups a Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap - Single in 1987. The song was also covered by the UK girl groups Sugababes and Girls Aloud as the official Comic Relief single in 2007. In 2010 it was confirmed that UK singer Melanie C will release her cover version of the song in late 2010. The song starts out with the famous two measure drum beat intro by Joey Kramer, followed up the equally famous guitar riff by Joe Perry. The song then goes into the verse, with a steady drum beat and bassline by Tom Hamilton forming as the backbeat, with dueling guitars by Joe Perry and Brad Whitford.

Though not verified, it is believed by some that an uncredited guitarist contributed to the song, including the solos. The lyrics, which tell the story of a high school boy losing his virginity, are sung quite fast by Steven Tyler, with heavy emphasis being placed on the rhyming lyrics (e.g., "so I took a big chance at the high school dance"). This rap-style delivery may explain why the song worked so well as a rap song when it was covered 11 years later. Between the elaborately detailed verses, the chorus primarily consists of a repetition of "Walk this way, talk this way". In collaborations, the other singer often says "talk this way" every alternate line of the chorus. Live in concert, Steven Tyler often has the audience, combined with members of the band, sing "talk this way". There is also a lengthy guitar solo at the end of the song, and in concert, Steven Tyler will often harmonize his voice to mimic the sounds of the guitar. In the Run-D.M.C. cover, the turntable is added in to reflect the additional hip hop influence on the record.

While the Run-DMC cover is nearly identical to the original version of the song, the Girls Aloud/Sugababes cover has a few changes tweaked into the song; the additional line "Walk this way, you wanna talk this way" is added, the vocoder is added, the lyrics are moved around, and the beat is slightly sped up to add a further dance pop influence to the song. Both versions of the song (the original Aerosmith version and the second Run-DMC cover featuring Steven Tyler and Joe Perry) appear on various Aerosmith compilations as well as Run-DMC albums. "Walk This Way" was one of two hit singles by the band to hit the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1970s, the other one being a re-release of "Dream On". "Walk This Way", though, helped "Toys in the Attic" to be the bestselling Aerosmith album, and one of the most critically acclaimed.

Aerosmith's version of "Walk This Way" often competes with "Sweet Emotion" and "Dream On" for the title of Aerosmith's signature song, being one of the band's most important, influential, and recognizable songs. The band almost never omits it from their concert setlist, still performing their classic version of the song to this day. The song has also long been a staple of rock radio, garnering regular airplay on mainstream rock, classic rock, and album-oriented rock radio stations. In 2009, it was named the 8th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. Copyright to Aerosmith and columbia records Category RUN-DMC - Walk This Way - YouTube RUN-DMC - Walk This Way Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Oct 25, 2009 Run-DMC's official music video for 'Walk This Way' ft. Aerosmith.

Click to listen to Run-DMC on Spotify: As featured on Run-DMC: Greatest Hits. Click to buy the track or album via iTunes: Sony/BMG About - Sign up for the OFFICIAL Run DMC Email List in the "Join My List" tab for the latest news, exclusive information and promotional opportunities like sales on classic gear, contests and so much more! Biography More than any other hip-hop group, Run DMC are responsible for the sound and style of the music. As the first hardcore rap outfit, the trio set the sound and st...yle for the next decade of rap. With their spare beats and excursions into heavy metal samples, the trio were tougher and more menacing than their predecessors Grandmaster Flash and Whodini. In the process, they opened the door for both the politicized rap of Public Enemy and Boogie Down Productions, as well as the hedonistic gangsta fantasies of N.W.A. At the same time, Run-D.M.C. helped move rap from a singles-oriented genre to an album-oriented one -- they were the first hip-hop artist to construct full-fledged albums, not just collections with two singles and a bunch of filler.

By the end of the '80s, Run-D.M.C. had been overtaken by the groups they had spawned, but they continued to perform to a dedicated following well into the '90s. All three members of Run-D.M.C. were natives of the middle-class New York borough Hollis, Queens. Run (born Joseph Simmons, November 14, 1964) was the brother of Russell Simmons, who formed the hip-hop management company Rush Productions in the early '80s; by the mid-'80s, Russell had formed the pioneering record label Def Jam with Rick Rubin. Russell encouraged his brother Joey and his friend Darryl McDaniels (born May 31, 1964) to form a rap duo. The pair of friends did just that, adopting the names Run and D.M.C., respectively. After they graduated from high school in 1982, the pair enlisted their friend Jason Mizell (born January 21, 1965) to scratch turntables; Mizell adopted the stage name Jam Master Jay. In 1983, Run-D.M.C.

released their first single, "It's Like That"/"Sucker M.C.'s," on Profile Records. The single sounded like no other rap at the time -- it was spare, blunt, and skillful, with hard beats and powerful, literate, daring vocals, where Run and D.M.C.'s vocals overlapped, as they finished each other's lines. It was the first "new school" hip-hop recording. "It's Like That" became a Top 20 R&B hit, as did the group's second single, "Hard Times"/"Jam Master Jay." Two other hit R&B singles followed in early 1984 -- "Rock Box" and "30 Days" -- before the group's eponymous debut appeared. By the time of their second album, 1985's King of Rock, Run-D.M.C. had become the most popular and influential rappers in America, already spawning a number of imitators. As the King of Rock title suggests, the group were breaking down the barriers between rock & roll and rap, rapping over heavy metal records and thick, dense drum loops.

Besides releasing the King of Rock album and scoring the R&B hits "King of Rock," "You Talk Too Much," and "Can You Rock It Like This" in 1985, the group also appeared in the rap movie Krush Groove, which also featured Kurtis Blow, the Beastie Boys, and the Fat Boys. Run-D.M.C.'s fusion of rock and rap broke into the mainstream with their third album, 1986's Raising Hell. The album was preceded by the Top Ten R&B single "My Adidas," which set the stage for the group's biggest hit single, a cover of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way." Recorded with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, "Walk This Way" was the first hip-hop record to appeal to both rockers and rappers, as evidenced by its peak position of number four on the pop charts. In the wake of the success of "Walk This Way," Raising Hell became the first rap album to reach number one on the R&B charts, to chart in the pop Top Ten, and to go platinum, and Run-D.M.C.

were the first rap act to received airplay on MTV -- they were the first rappers to cross over into the pop mainstream. Raising Hell also spawned the hit singles "You Be Illin'" and "It's Tricky." Run-D.M.C. spent most of 1987 recording Tougher Than Leather, their follow-up to Raising Hell. Tougher Than Leather was accompanied by a movie of the same name. Starring Run-D.M.C., the film was an affectionate parody of '70s blaxploitation films. Although Run-D.M.C. had been at the height of their popularity when they were recording and filming Tougher Than Leather, by the time the project was released, the rap world had changed. Most of the hip-hop audience wanted to hear hardcore political rappers like Public Enemy, not crossover artists like Run-D.M.C. Consequently, the film bombed and the album only went platinum, failing to spawn any significant hit singles. Two years after Tougher Than Leather, Run-D.M.C. returned with Back From Hell, which became their first album not to go platinum. Following its release, both Run and D.M.C.

suffered personal problems as McDaniels suffered a bout of alcoholism and Simmons was accused of rape. After McDaniels sobered up and the charges against Simmons were dismissed, both of the rappers became born-again Christians, touting their religious conversion on the 1993 album Down With the King. Featuring guest appearances and production assistance from artists as diverse as Public Enemy, EPMD, Naughty by Nature, A Tribe Called Quest, Neneh Cherry, Pete Rock, and KRS-One, Down With the King became the comeback Run-D.M.C. needed. The title track became a Top Ten R&B hit and the album went gold, peaking at number 21. Although they were no longer hip-hop innovators, the success of Down With the King proved that Run-D.M.C. were still respected pioneers. After a long studio hiatus, the trio returned in early 2000 with Crown Royal. The album did little to add to their ailing record sales, but the following promotional efforts saw them join Aerosmith and Kid Rock for a blockbuster performance on MTV.

By 2002, the release of two greatest-hits albums prompted a tour with Aerosmith that saw them travel the U.S., always performing "Walk This Way" to transition between their sets. Sadly, only weeks after the end of the tour, Jam Master Jay was senselessly murdered in a studio session in Queens. Only 37 years old, the news of his passing spread quick and hip-hop luminaries like Big Daddy Kane and Funkmaster Flex took the time to pay tribute to him on New York radio stations. Possibly the most visible DJ in the history of hip-hop, his death was truly the end of an era and unfortunately perpetuated the cycle of violence that has haunted the genre since the late '80s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide See More categories Articles about Run Dmc - tribunedigital-orlandosentinel Top 3 Concerts: Made in America Festival By John J. Moser, Of The Morning Call, August 29, 2012 Seems if you want a music festival to be about America, the place to hold it is Philadelphia — the cradle of liberty and all that.

So this weekend the City of Brotherly Love gets Jay Z's new Made in America festival — two days of music bringing together 30 top acts, including Jay Z himself, Pearl Jam , Skrillex , Miike Snow , Chris Cornell, Run DMC , Drake, Passion Pit , Janelle Monae , The Hives on three stages in... Advertisement Rape Charges Dismissed Against Run Dmc Rapper February 23, 1992 A Cleveland judge dismissed rape charges against Joseph Simmons, the rapper ''Run'' in the group Run DMC, after his accuser told the judge there was no evidence to support her charge.The 22-year-old Cleveland woman wiped away tears Friday as she told the judge she agreed with the prosecutor's decision to seek dismissal of the charges.Defense attorney Gerald Gold said later that a Bowling Green, Ky., police officer had come forward to say the woman had made false claims of rape in the past. ENTERTAINMENT 'The Art of Rap': Ice-T and his friends give hip-hop some of its due ✭✭ 1/2 Michael Phillips and Movie critic, June 14, 2012 Why doesn't rap garner the respect afforded jazz and the blues?

Not without its share of self-interest, the question recurs throughout "Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap," executive-produced, directed by and featuring Ice-T, who shares the screen with a strong percentage of the major rap and hip-hop artists of the last three decades. The movie's just OK as a documentary , prone to generalities ("this film is about the craft "; " Run-DMC took the live show to a whole 'nother level") LOCAL Run-dmc Rapper Charged After Brawl At Nightclub June 27, 1991 Rapper Darryl McDaniels of Run-DMC and a member of the group's stage crew denied charges Wednesday of aggravated assault and battery stemming from a brawl at an Atlanta nightclub.Police investigator J.P. Spillane said McDaniels and Raymond White, both 27 and from Long Island City, N.Y., attacked two bouncers, beginning a brawl that involved 15 people at Club 112 early Sunday.The two men, who were participating in a show at the club, originally were charged with drunken and disorderly conduct, simple battery on a police officer and criminal damage to property.

LOCAL Run-dmc Members Fined For Brawl In Atlanta Club July 19, 1991 Three members of the rap group Run-DMC pleaded guilty Wednesday to disorderly conduct charges resulting from a brawl in a nightclub where they performed last month. Lead singer Darryl McDaniels was fined $600 and group members Raymond White and Michael Dobson were fined $400 for disorderly conduct while intoxicated. The fines resulted from a plea bargain with City Solicitor Roosevelt Hamm. The rappers were charged June 25 after what authorities termed a near-riot at Club 112 in Atlanta. About 15 people were involved in the incident, which resulted in about $4,000 in damage, police said. LOCAL Dj Jam Master Jay Helped Shatter Walls Between Music By Jim Abbott, Sentinel Pop Music Writer, November 1, 2002 In Run-DMC's video for the hit single "Walk This Way," the rappers knock down walls into a dusty pile of rubble. That's a perfect symbol for a group being remembered for breaking down barriers in the wake of Wednesday's murder of one of its members, DJ Jam Master Jay, in a New York recording studio.

The rapper was 37. "They really broke down walls," says Christopher John Farley, senior editor at Time and the magazine's former music critic. "They shattered the walls between urban and suburban music, between rock and rap, and between street music and commercial music." LOCAL Top 3 Concerts: Made in America Festival By John J. Moser, Of The Morning Call, August 29, 2012 Seems if you want a music festival to be about America, the place to hold it is Philadelphia — the cradle of liberty and all that. So this weekend the City of Brotherly Love gets Jay Z's new Made in America festival — two days of music bringing together 30 top acts, including Jay Z himself, Pearl Jam , Skrillex , Miike Snow , Chris Cornell, Run DMC , Drake, Passion Pit , Janelle Monae , The Hives on three stages in...

LOCAL Chuck Brown dies: Godfather of Go-Go dead at 75 By Liz Kelly Nelson and Zap2it , May 17, 2012 Chuck Brown, the man credited with taking funk one step further to create go-go -- the beat-heavy music that influenced hip-hop artists from Run DMC to Nelly -- is dead at 75. He passed away at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., from complications from sepsis. Brown had been hospitalized for pneumonia in early May, but had trouble recovering and succumbed on Wednesday (May 16), his manager tells The Washington Post . Along with his band, the Soul Searchers, Brown spent four weeks atop the R&B singles chart in 1978 with his signature song "Bustin' Loose. ENTERTAINMENT 'The Art of Rap': Ice-T and his friends give hip-hop some of its due ✭✭ 1/2 Michael Phillips and Movie critic, June 14, 2012 Why doesn't rap garner the respect afforded jazz and the blues?

Not without its share of self-interest, the question recurs throughout "Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap," executive-produced, directed by and featuring Ice-T, who shares the screen with a strong percentage of the major rap and hip-hop artists of the last three decades. The movie's just OK as a documentary , prone to generalities ("this film is about the craft "; " Run-DMC took the live show to a whole 'nother level") LOCAL Chuck Brown dies: Godfather of Go-Go dead at 75 By Liz Kelly Nelson and Zap2it , May 17, 2012 Chuck Brown, the man credited with taking funk one step further to create go-go -- the beat-heavy music that influenced hip-hop artists from Run DMC to Nelly -- is dead at 75. He passed away at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., from complications from sepsis. Brown had been hospitalized for pneumonia in early May, but had trouble recovering and succumbed on Wednesday (May 16), his manager tells The Washington Post . Along with his band, the Soul Searchers, Brown spent four weeks atop the R&B singles chart in 1978 with his signature song "Bustin' Loose.

ENTERTAINMENT Hard Rock show marks 40 years Jim Abbott and SOUNDBOARD, September 29, 2011 So Hard Rock is 40 years old? Seriously, it doesn't look a day over 39. The question, of course, is how does one properly celebrate the birthday of a worldwide brand? I had thought about offering Hard Rock some rock 'n' roll memorabilia , but they pretty much have that covered. Instead, the company is offering a present to Orlando, its global headquarters, in the form of a free concert on Saturday. There will be performances by Collective Soul , Everclear , Tonic , Mike Doughty and His Band Fantastic , Darryl "DMC" McDaniels , The Parlor Mob and an assortment of local acts on four stages in downtown Orlando. LOCAL Thousands Pay Tribute To Slain Run-d.m.c. Star In New York November 6, 2002 NEW YORK -- Pallbearers wearing white unlaced adidas shoes carried the body of slain Run-D.M.C.

star Jam Master Jay from a funeral service Thursday at which he was remembered as "the embodiment of hip-hop." A funeral cortege of white stretch limousines and luxury sport utility vehicles was lined up outside the Allen A.M.E. Cathedral in the rapper's native Queens. Inside, bandmates Joseph "Run" Simmons and Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniel eulogized their friend, whose real name was Jason "Jay" Mizell, as a great man and groundbreaking musical force. LOCAL Dj Jam Master Jay Helped Shatter Walls Between Music By Jim Abbott, Sentinel Pop Music Writer, November 1, 2002 In Run-DMC's video for the hit single "Walk This Way," the rappers knock down walls into a dusty pile of rubble. That's a perfect symbol for a group being remembered for breaking down barriers in the wake of Wednesday's murder of one of its members, DJ Jam Master Jay, in a New York recording studio. The rapper was 37. "They really broke down walls," says Christopher John Farley, senior editor at Time and the magazine's former music critic.

"They shattered the walls between urban and suburban music, between rock and rap, and between street music and commercial music." LIFESTYLE A Study In Rap By Robert Hilburn, Music Writer, December 20, 2001 When Public Enemy's Chuck D. put "There's no future without a past" on an album cover a decade ago, he was talking about the importance of history in understanding racial politics. But the phrase applies equally to rap music itself. A sense of history is important in all art forms because it arms us with the standards of excellence needed to measure new works -- and that perspective is especially important in a field that changes as rapidly as pop music. If fans don't demand the best from artists, it's easy to end up with only conventional music. ENTERTAINMENT 2-cd Set Features Full-scale Difranco April 13, 2001 Ani DiFranco, Revelling/Reckoning (Righteous Babe): Singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco is right on in so many ways that she needs a double CD to illuminate them all. By the way, this all-new collection is the fiercely independent musician's 15th on her own label.

"They're buying and selling off shares of air," she warbles in "Your Next Bold Move," the lead-off track on the Reckoning disc. In light of the Bush administration's recent decision to put U.S. economic interests ahead of the Kyoto global-warming treaty, this unblinking take on the despair and anger of being "surrounded by a world's worth of things you just can't excuse" is right on time. LIFESTYLE A Study In Rap By Robert Hilburn, Music Writer, December 20, 2001 When Public Enemy's Chuck D. put "There's no future without a past" on an album cover a decade ago, he was talking about the importance of history in understanding racial politics. But the phrase applies equally to rap music itself. A sense of history is important in all art forms because it arms us with the standards of excellence needed to measure new works -- and that perspective is especially important in a field that changes as rapidly as pop music. If fans don't demand the best from artists, it's easy to end up with only conventional music.

ENTERTAINMENT Hard Rock show marks 40 years Jim Abbott and SOUNDBOARD, September 29, 2011 So Hard Rock is 40 years old? Seriously, it doesn't look a day over 39. The question, of course, is how does one properly celebrate the birthday of a worldwide brand? I had thought about offering Hard Rock some rock 'n' roll memorabilia , but they pretty much have that covered. Instead, the company is offering a present to Orlando, its global headquarters, in the form of a free concert on Saturday. There will be performances by Collective Soul , Everclear , Tonic , Mike Doughty and His Band Fantastic , Darryl "DMC" McDaniels , The Parlor Mob and an assortment of local acts on four stages in downtown Orlando. Rap Race: Run-d.m.c.

Goes The Distance By Rebecca Thomas of The Sentinel Staff, June 13, 1997 Eleven years ago, three rappers from Queens made music history when they teamed with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry to record a hip-hop version of Aerosmith's rock tune ''Walk This Way.''And whether you liked the revision or thought it was nothing short of blasphemy, chances are you never forgot the name of that rap act - Run-D.M.C. Although they weren't the first rappers, they quickly set a precedent by expanding rap's fan base into the white pop mainstream.Over the past decade, Joseph Simmons (Run) ENTERTAINMENT Run-d.m.c.: Christianity With An Attitude By David Hinckley, New York Daily News, May 14, 1993 Not since Bob Dylan made born-again rock records in the late '70s has a major act put Christianity so openly front and center as Run-D.M.C. has done on ''Down With the King,'' the rap group's return to the chart wars.In popular lore, Run-D.M.C. always has been associated more with the elements of daily life: music, women, street talk.

This is, after all, a group that once got a $1.5 million endorsement deal for singing about its shoes.But if some people might be surprised to hear the group rapping about love of the Lord, don't count Joseph Simmons (Run) “Walk This Way” by Aerosmith: 40 Song Facts - VH1 vh1 “Walk This Way” by Aerosmith: 40 Song Facts How Jeff Beck, James Brown, Boston's Combat Zone, and Young Frankenstein figure in the rock classic. by Mike McPadden 8/28/2015 On August 28, 1975, Aerosmith released “Walk This Way” as a single from their landmark album Toys in the Attic , and we’ve all been rocking this way and that to it ever since. The sudden, staccato, hard funk percussion that kicks off “Walk This Way” is one of the most distinctive, immediately recognizable, and instantly intoxicating intros in all of rock.

Ignited first by Joey Kramer’s pop-and-sizzle two measure drum beat, Aerosmith axe master Joe Perry then spearheads rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford, bassist Tom Hamilton with a riff like that, right off, announces “Walk This Way” as one-of-a-kind. From there, lip-flapping front-dervish Steven Tyler bursts through with a motor-mouthed onslaught of too many lyrics to fit in any one song that, with mesmerizing machine gun relentlessness, he manages to make it all seem inevitable—and electrifyingly so. Aerosmith's 'Toys in the Attic': Ranking the Songs on the Classic Album “Walk This Way” elevated Aerosmith from being a popular hard rock act to arena-packing mega-stars. Across the four decades since it first landed as a 45rpm record, the song has transformed not just rock, but the entire landscape of music and, in fact, popular culture. Let’s celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Walk This Way” with 40 facts about this remarkably rocking achievement. 1. “Walk This Way” was Aerosmith’s second single from their 1975 breakthrough LP, Toys in the Attic.

They released the song after “Sweet Emotion” first broke the band in the Top 40 by landing at #36. 2. Unlike “Sweet Emotion,” however, “Walk This Way” failed to chart—at first. 3. Rocks, Aerosmith’s 1976 follow-up to Toys in the Attic, hit big on immediate impact. Thus, with two hot back-to-back LPs drawing fans to record stores, the band reissued “Walk This Way” as a single. This time it clicked. 4. The second coming (in a series) of “Walk This Way” topped out at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. 5. The first version of the “Walk This Way” single featured “Round and Round” on its B-side. 6. The “Walk This Way” re-release single boasts “Uncle Salty” as its B-side. 7. In explaining the funkified origins of “Walk This Way,” guitarist Joe Perry said : “When Aerosmith played its first gig in November 1970, we were heavily into funk and soul.

Joey Kramer, our drummer, had been putting himself through Boston’s Berklee College of Music playing in an R-and-B band at seedy clubs in the city’s ‘Combat Zone.’ He knew all the Motown stuff, while the rest of us were into James Brown and Sly Stone.” 8. In terms of direct influences, Perry noted, “Jeff Beck had turned me on to the Meters, and I loved their riffy New Orleans funk, especially ‘Cissy Strut’ and ‘ People Say.’ ” 9. In 2004, Steven Tyler wrote in Rolling Stone: “The Yardbirds’ music is a gold mine waiting to be stumbled upon. Aerosmith did, because we grew up in that era. The riff in ‘Walk This Way’ is just us trying to explore the blues in the Yardbirds model.” 10. As he was noodling around on stage in Hawaii before a 1974 gig opening for the Guess Who, Perry said he was “thinking about the Meters” when he asked Kramer to “lay down something flat with a groove” on the drums.

After that, Perry said, “The riff to what was to become ‘Walk This Way’ just came off my hands.” 11. Upon hearing Perry’s riff, former drummer Steven Tyler sat in on Kramer’s kit and played along, spewing out an array of verbal nonsense words to figure out how the lyrics might flow. The band then filed their nascent creation for later use. 12. In January 1975, Aerosmith set up camp at the Record Plant in New York to commence recording Toys in the Attic. A need for new material quickly became imminent. Perry busted out the riff they’d developed in Hawaii, but it was still more of an idea than any kind of actual song. That’s when the group decided to take a break and refresh themselves by catching a movie. 13. Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks’ classic 1974 spoof of old monster movies, was the hit of the season. Tyler, Kramer, bassist Brad Hamilton and producer Jack Douglas took in a Times Square screening, loved it, and returned to the studio cracking one another up by quoting lines from the film.

Among their favorites was when Marty Feldman, as hunchbacked henchmen Eye-Gor, instructs mad scientist Gene Wilder to “Walk this way,” after which Wilder imitates Feldman’s bent-over strut. 14. Struck by inspiration, Jack Douglas said, “Hey, ‘Walk This Way’ might be a great title for a song.” 15. Tyler wrote the first version of the “Walk This Way” lyrics at his hotel that night. The next day, en route, to the studio, left them in a taxi. “I must have been stoned,” he figures. 16. Listening to the “Walk This Way” riff on the backstairs of the Record Plant, Tyler scrawled new words on a wall in pencil. He then ran down to the studio and bolted back up with a legal pad to write down what would be the song’s final words. 17.

To get his guitar to sound “like an electric razor” on “Walk This Way,” Perry plays “a late-’50s Stratocaster Tobacco Sunburst with a stand-alone Ampeg V4 amp on top with a Marshall 4-by-12 speaker cabinet on the bottom.” Tyler said he added a “screech” to his voice, particularly on the chorus, to match Perry’s guitar sound. 18. As with “Sweet Emotion,” Perry uses a talk box on “Walk This Way,” particularly during the chorus. 19. The lyrics to “Walk This Way” detail, in highly fanciful fashion, a high school dude spectacularly losing his virginity at the hands and glands of a wildly experienced cheerleader during some “backseat lovin’ with her sister and her cousin.” 20. “If you listen to the words,” Tyler once said , “they’re all really filthy. If you listen close, you’ll hear that I disguised it quite cleverly.” 21. In the 1999 book Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith , Tyler further explained the song’s lyrical nuances. “’Backstroke lover’ is our hero masturbating,” Tyler said.

“His father catches him, and explains that he will someday experience the real thing. One day, he encounters the cheerleader along with “her sister and her cousin,” and has a glorious sexual experience.” 22. Tyler lays bare the double entendre title thusly: “The ‘walk this way’ line is the experienced girl showing the young man where to put his finger – showing him how to ‘walk.’ Inspiration came from make-out parties where this kind of thing could happen.” 23. After “Walk This Way” hit the airwaves, David Johansson, frontman of one of Aerosmith’s contemporary idol groups, the New York Dolls, told Perry it was “the dirtiest song he had ever heard on the radio.” The gushing guitarist added, “Coming from David, that was high praise.” 24. An animated Aerosmith performs “Walk This Way” on the “Flaming Moe” episode of The Simpsons , which first aired November 21, 1991. They were the first superstar rock band to guest on the series. 25. In its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time , Rolling Stone listed “Walk This Way” at #346. 26.

The VH1 TV special 100 Greatest Rock Songs ranked “Walked This Way” at #35. 27. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame includes “Walk This Way” on its vaunted roster of The 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll . 28. “Walk This Way” famously hit the top 10 again in 1986, by way of a history-making cover by Run-DMC featuring Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. 29. Jam Master Jay, Run-DMC’s DJ, had been using “Walk This Way” to create beats without knowing the artist or the title. This happened as a result of the original hip-hop DJs tearing the labels off the records they used so that rivals wouldn’t know where their sounds were coming from. Producer Rick Rubin heard Jay spinning it, and told him it was “Walk This Way” by Aerosmith. 30. Rubin suggested Run-DMC re-record the song with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. The rappers agreed, but wanted to alter some of the words because, as Darryl McDaniels (DMC) recalls: “We said, ‘Yo! This is hillbilly gibberish!

’” Tyler was peeved at first, but then he conceded it was Run-DMC’s interpretation, so he was cool with the changes. 31. In fact, according to Joe Perry, Run-DMC themselves weren’t entirely at ease with Rubin’s idea from the get-go. “They weren’t all that excited about it, frankly,” he said . “They weren’t sure they wanted it on the record—they weren’t sure they wanted electric guitars on there. They were at the forefront of this new kind of music and they didn’t want to spoil it. I think they saw it as either a step sideways or a step backwards.” 32. Run-DMC’s “Walk This Way” hit #4 on the Billboard singles chart and launched their Raising Hell album toward triple-platinum status. The song clearly proved to be a giant leap forward not just for the rappers, but for Aerosmith as well. After their initial attempt at a comeback, 1985’s Done With Mirrors , stiffed commercially, “Walk This Way” set the band up to break huge again in ’87 with Permanent Vacation . 33.

Steven Tyler and Joe Perry had never appeared together in a made-for-MTV music video before co-starring in the Run-DMC clip for “Walk This Way.” 34. MTV had even rejected the video for “Lightning Strikes” by a Joe-Perry-free Aerosmith in 1982—and that was back when MTV was desperate for content! 35. Director Jon Small shot the “Walk This Way” video at the Park Theater in Union City, New Jersey. It became an immediate MTV sensation . 36. In the video, the women seated in the practice space behind Tyler and Perry are Joe’s wife, Billie Paulette Montgomery , who was pregnant, and Steven’s then girlfriend Teresa Barrick, who he married in 1988. 37. While shooting the “Walk This Way” video, Joe Perry wanted to add some bass to the track, but he’d only brought a guitar. A trio of “kids,” as Perry put it, had been sitting with Rick Rubin watching the shoot. One of them ran home, grabbed a bass, and returned, helping Perry out. Those “kids” turned out to be Rubin’s best buddies, the Beastie Boys. 38.

In 1987, both Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C. picked up a Soul Train Music Award for Best Rap Single. 39. When “Walk This Way” by Run-D.M.C. initially hit big, both Steven Tyler and Joe Perry were in drug and alcohol rehab. The Story Behind The Song: Walk This Way by Run-DMC - Classic Rock The Story Behind The Song: Walk This Way by Run-DMC Features / 27 Jul 2007 / by Greg Prato 0 shares Google+ When producer Rick Rubin talked Run DMC into recording the Aerosmith rocker, rap-rock was born The beginning of the now-classic video for Run-DMC’s version of Walk This Way begins with the Hollis, Queens rap trio (MCs Run and DMC plus DJ Jam Master Jay) trying to drown out a band rehearsing next door – Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. Each faction cranks up the volume, until Tyler smashes a hole in the wall with his bandana-strewn mic stand – then, a ‘duet’ between both groups ensues. The video also serves as a metaphor for how separated rock and rap were at the time.

By the mid-80s, Aerosmith were a shadow of their former self. After 1985’s unfocused reunion album Done With Mirrors failed to recapture the group’s earlier glories – coupled with its members’ ongoing drug problems – it seemed like Aerosmith’s chart-dominating days were over. On the other hand, Run-DMC was a group on the rise – their first two albums [1984’s Run-DMC and 1985’s King Of Rock] helped put rap on the map and, as evidenced by both the title track of King Of Rock and Rock Box, the seeds for a rap-rock hybrid were sown. It didn’t truly together until sessions began for Run-DMC’s third album, Raising Hell, in early 1986. when Jam Master Jay and DMC resuscitated a sample from their early days. “Before rap records were made, we used to have to find beats to rap over, and Walk This Way was one of our favourites,” recalls DMC [real name Darryl McDaniels].

“There’s something about Walk This Way – when the DJ threw that on, the beat was so cool, the way those guitars came in. And then the DJ would cut it back to the start of the beat.” “We were in the studio one day looping the beat and [producer] Rick Rubin walks in. He’s like, ‘Yo, do you know what that is?’. And me and Jay were like, ‘Yeah, that’s Toys In The Attic'. We didn’t know the group – we just went off with what was on the cover. He was like, ‘This is Aerosmith, Walk This Way' – he was giving us the 411 on Aerosmith.” When Rubin suggested Run-DMC re-do the song, DMC remembers resistance. “Me and Run were like, ‘You’re taking this rock-rap shit too far – you’re going to ruin us. That’s going to be fake, nobody in hip-hop is going to like it'. But he persuaded me and Jay to sit down and listen to the lyrics, so we put the needle on the record. When Steven Tyler opened his mouth, we got on the phone: ‘Y’all motherfuckers – we’re going to be ruined!’.

We had this big argument.” What Run-DMC didn’t know was Rubin had already asked Perry and Tyler to drop by Magic Ventures Studios in NYC. “We went into the studio and laid down a weak version – because we didn’t want to do the record – and left. Eight hours later, we get a call to come back to the studio. We walk in and Joe Perry is playing his riff, Steven Tyler is in the booth doing the lyrics. Me and Run knew we had to step our game up. Jay was like, ‘Yo, don’t think of the record as "Steven Tyler and Joe Perry’s record", think of those lyrics as Run-DMC lyrics'. So we went in the booth and that went so good that Steven said, ‘Yo, let me get in with y’all'.” In the 1997 book Walk This Way: The Autobiography Of Aerosmith, the band’s then-manager, Tim Collins, admits not knowing what rap was when Rubin first suggested the session – but agreed when offered $8,000 for a day’s studio work. Perry added, “I didn’t know what was gonna happen when I walked into the studio.

I thought they’d show us ideas on how to rearrange the song, but all they had was a drum track.” DMC recalls his first impressions of the Aero-duo. “Steven was very friendly and Joe Perry didn’t say one word. He’d nod at you, go over and play the guitar, finish his riff. ‘Are you ready to play?’. He’d shake his head yes. But Steve was just very friendly and inquisitive, like, ‘Wow, do the DJ thing Jay – show me how to DJ'. He was like a little kid – excited and enthused.” In the Walk This Way... autobiography, Tyler reflected on the sessions. “Run and D and Jay were huddled in a corner, really intent on something. I go, ‘Joe, what are they doing?’. ‘Probably smoking crack’, he says. Later we went over to the corner. They’d been eating lunch from McDonald’s.” As soon as Run-DMC began playing their version of Walk This Way, DMC knew they were on to something. “Everybody flipped out. Me and Run were so puzzled, because the reaction was overwhelming.

We didn’t think it was going to be a big hit, but people were loving it.” Soon after, the video was filmed, which MTV aired throughout the summer of 1986. Raising Hell was soon a smash, peaking at No.6 on the US album chart, while Walk This Way hit No.4 on the US singles chart. Aerosmith may have benefited more from the success – they soon kicked their addictions and enjoyed a hugely successful comeback. DMC can see what the song accomplished. “People tell me it’s the greatest rap record ever made and the greatest video. VH-1 did the ‘Top 50 Videos Of All-Time’ – we were No.1. It was about bringing generations of music together, which is what music is supposed to do – evolution and unity.” Walk This Way OVER THE MOON: DMC DISCOVERS CLASSIC ROCK Although long-credited as being part of one of hip-hop’s ground-breaking groups, DMC has a soft spot for classic rock. “I’m a big lover of classic rock – all I listen to is classic rock. For the first time in my life I listened to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon – it changed my whole perspective of music.

Then I listened to Neil Young, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Procol Harum, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Bob Seger... the list goes on and on. The best music on the face of the earth, besides hip-hop, is classic rock. What I like about classic rock is they don’t just talk about one thing, they talk about the world we live in. Like, if there was a war in Vietnam, they wrote about it; they didn’t care if people thought it was right or wrong. They were a voice for the people. Everything else in the world will pass away, and classic rock will be for eternity.” THE FACTS Walk This Way: how Run-DMC and Aerosmith changed pop Walk This Way: how Run-DMC and Aerosmith changed pop When Aerosmith manager Tim Collins answered his phone one day in early 1986, he was, at first, confused. The voice on the other end belonged to Rick Rubin , the 22-year-old hip-hop producer and entrepreneur behind Def Jam , the fast-rising record label he had founded while still a film student at New York University.

Rubin, a rock kid who’d grown up – or, rather, who hadn’t – on the gonzo kicks of AC/DC, Ted Nugent and Aerosmith themselves, wanted to talk to Collins about the idea of remaking his charges’ 1975 single Walk This Way with a rap group on his roster, Run-DMC . Before Rubin could go into any further detail, Collins cut him off to request a little clarification: “What’s rap?” A more valid question, for most people in the mid-80s, might have been “What’s an Aerosmith?”. The suburban white kids who had once been the Boston band’s faithful constituency had matured and moved on. A new generation was turning instead towards exactly the hip-hop sounds that Rubin and Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons were selling them. Not that hip-hop had always been an easy sell. The rap records that reached radio listeners in the early years had a tendency, ever since the Sugarhill Gang’s breakthrough, Rapper’s Delight , to exude a novelty flavour, while turntablism, in real life the beating heart of the culture , tended to manifest itself only as a cheesy wikki-wikki add-on. And then there were the clothes.

Oh dear God, the clothes. Seek out the extraordinary footage of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five on Channel 4’s The Tube performing The Message, its pioneering gritty street-level content undermined by their superfly sci-fi costumes, which looked like they’d been raided from George Clinton’s tour bus seven years earlier. The reputation of the entire genre was rescued by Run-DMC who, in the words of British writer Neil Kulkarni in The Periodic Table of Hip Hop, “made everything that had happened before them sound old-fashioned, too slick and smarmy”. The trio had roots in that clunky prehistory: Run (Joseph Simmons), the teenage brother of Russell Simmons, had previously DJed for Kurtis Blow, before forming his own band, originally called Orange Crush, with DMC (Darryl McDaniels) and DJ Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell). But everything changed in 1983 when the trio, renamed Run-DMC and still in their teens, released their debut single, It’s Like That , on Profile. That track – brutally blunt by the standards of the time – and its rival-dissing flipside, Sucker MCs, blew up on rap radio and changed the game for good.

“Ultimately it took Run-DMC, with their black leather, sweats, homburgs and in-your-face attitude, to crystallise the image of toughness into rap chic,” wrote SH Fernando Jr in hip-hop history The New Beats. “Their attitude, like their beats, was hard. Their dress, unlike the extravagant leather, sequin and feather outfits of most rap acts at the time, reflected a street aesthetic to which the average b-boy on the corner could relate.” Aerosmith, meanwhile, were in a slump. Album sales had steadily declined since their 70s peak, the band’s key members were ravaged by various addictions, and they hadn’t had a Billboard top 10 single since the original Walk This Way , a decade earlier. The song had first been recorded for the band’s Toys in the Attic album, and was born on tour when singer Steven Tyler, who had been listening to the Meters and James Brown, asked drummer Joey Kramer to lay down something with a little funk to it.

(Run-DMC, therefore, were not so much appropriating Aerosmith’s groove for black culture as reclaiming it.) Guitarist Joe Perry added a simple but effective hook, and Tyler came up with a lewd loss-of-innocence lyric about a schoolboy getting caught masturbating by his father, who instructs him in the ways of seduction. When it was time to record the track at New York’s Record Plant studio, it still needed a title and a chorus. Inspiration finally came to them when they took a break to walk a few blocks to Times Square to catch a movie. The film was Mel Brooks’s comedy Young Frankenstein, in which Marty Feldman’s Igor lurches and limps down some stone steps, then instructs Gene Wilder, playing the title role, to “walk this way”. In a classic sight gag, Wilder does exactly that. By the time the Run-DMC/Aerosmith collaboration was mooted, Jam Master Jay had already been cutting Walk This Way back and forth between his decks for years, and Run had been rapping over it since he was 12. They weren’t the first act, though, to attempt a rap-rock hybrid.

The Beastie Boys’ AC/DC-sampling Rock Hard and LL Cool J’s Rock the Bells – both Rick Rubin productions – had already walked that way, and Run-DMC themselves had released several trial runs, notably the Russell Simmons-produced Rock Box and the provocatively titled King of Rock, both featuring chunky riffing from session guitarist Eddie Martinez. When Collins relayed Rubin’s offer to Tyler and Perry, they were initially sceptical, but went along to Magic Ventures studio in Manhattan on 9 March 1986 for the rate of $8,000 a day. And a day is all it took: Run-DMC had a rental car that was overdue for return, and needed to work fast. As Tyler recalled in Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith, “Run and D and Jay were huddled in a corner, really intent on something. I go, ‘Joe, what are they doing?’ He says, ‘Probably smoking crack.’ Later we went over to the corner.

They’d been eating lunch from McDonald’s.” What Rick Rubin created with that day’s work still stands as an immortal party anthem, as liable to spark outbreaks of air-scratching as air-guitar among drunks unable to decide whether they want to be Jay or Joe as they lurched around (an ability to dance was optional for the enjoyment of Walk This Way). Tyler’s rapid-fire vocal was too slang-packed to be completely decipherable to British ears, but the bits about “feet flying up in the air”, a “kitty in the middle” and being “down on the muffin” left little doubt that it was thinly veiled filth. And the video was one of the most literal in a decade not short of contenders. The two bands – the sleazy old rock slags and the box-fresh rap crew – are rehearsing in adjacent rooms and engaged in a loudness war, but join forces when Tyler literally smashes down the wall between the two rooms/races/genres, and the two groups storm a theatre stage to the delight of screaming fans. The clip instantly took Run-DMC into the MTV mainstream (the channel showed it twice an hour). But which half of the hook-up were the real winners from Walk This Way?

Who was doing a favour for whom? Rick Rubin had sold Aerosmith the idea as “a great crossover opportunity for both groups”, and so it proved. The received narrative is that the song broke Run-DMC and, by extension, rap, legitimising the genre in the eyes of white listeners, just as Eddie Van Halen’s solo on Beat It had done for Michael Jackson and black pop. It’s true that the single became the first rap single on Billboard’s Top 10 (peaking at No 4), that its parent album, Raising Hell, became rap’s first platinum LP, and that Run-DMC became the first rap act on the cover of Rolling Stone. Arguably, however, Aerosmith benefited more. Run-DMC were unquestionably the hipper, cooler, younger, more current and relevant act (they’d been the only rap artists on the Live Aid bill the previous year), and the fact that the name Aerosmith appears nowhere on the label of the Run-DMC version of Walk This Way speaks volumes about the balance of power. Guesting on a Run-DMC single, albeit a cover of their own song, saved Aerosmith’s career.

It got them on to the contemporary hits radio format for the first time, and achieved a different sort of crossover: if Run-DMC’s was racial, Aerosmith’s was generational. Kids whose contemporary poodle-rock heroes were Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe and Guns N’ Roses welcomed Tyler and Perry as elder statesmen, and their next album, Permanent Vacation, sold 5m copies (10 times more than its predecessor), while the next two did even better. It also made them a truly global band for the first time: Aerosmith, who had previously meant next to nothing in the UK, were suddenly household names. Run-DMC, however, never quite consolidated that success, their cultural visibility in later years restricted to Jason Nevins remixes and reproduction T-shirts in H&M. Meanwhile, the success of Walk This Way paved the way for a trio of white youths – Beastie Boys – to sell a hip-hop/heavy metal hybrid back to the suburbs in even bigger quantities.

Rap Rock itself, once established as an ongoing genre, became a mixed blessing, initially throwing up fertile cross-pollinations such as Rage Against the Machine , Faith No More and Public Enemy’s collaboration with Anthrax, but eventually leading to such atrocities as Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park (though blaming Run-DMC for that is roughly as fair as blaming Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press for the existence of Katie Hopkins). Nowadays, the sheer popularity of Walk This Way means serious hip-hop heads are often dismissive of its worth. But to put the needle on the vinyl, even at 30 years’ distance, is to hear worlds colliding, and walls tumbling down. Steven Tyler reveals Aerosmith wrote 'Walk This Way' while waiting for a cocaine delivery - NME NME 5:12 pm - Aug 8, 2013 0shares Singer says band began jamming as they waited for drugs to arrive PA Steven Tyler of Aerosmith has revealed that the band wrote their hit single ‘Walk This Way’ while waiting for drug a drug delivery to arrive.

Speaking to NME, Tyler admits that the 1975 single – which was remade by Run-DMC as a rap-rock crossover smash in 1986 – was created while the band had time on their hands and were waiting for their Class As to arrive. Discussing the background of the hit single, the frontman says: “We were all waiting for a load of blow to come. [Guitarist] Joe Perry was onstage and I ran up onstage and starting jamming with him. Who knew that from jamming with Joe, it would become so big and do what it did?” Earlier this year Steven Tyler revealed the extent of his cocaine addiction, estimating he had spent $6m on the drug. The 65-year-old frontman confessed that he overestimated the amount of money he has spent on drugs – he previously said he spent $20 million in his 2011 memoir Does The Noise In My Head Bother You – and says he realistically spent $6 million on narcotics. Click here to read Tyler give the inside story on how he made one of hip-hop’s biggest crossover anthems. Song Stories Run DMC feat.

Aerosmith -- "Walk This Way" | Songs That Changed Music Forever | XFINITY Songs That Changed Music Forever 14 of 20 Send to Friend Run DMC feat. Aerosmith -- "Walk This Way" Run DMC teamed with Aerosmith to bring hip-hop further into the American mainstream by reinventing Aerosmith's classic.âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Frank Micelotta/ ImageDirect) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. More from this Slideshow Nirvana: "Smells... Yes, this song killed hair metal and brought grunge to mainstream suburbia. Despite all this, it isn't even the best song on what could be the best album of the '90s.âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Frank Micelotta.) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. The Beach Boys: ...

Brian Wilson plundered orchestra pits, garage sales, and everything in between to find the instrumental layers that make up the intricate harmonies found on 'Good Vibrations.' At the time, the album was a commercial disappointment, but the song laid the groundwork for The Beatles' 'Lonely Hearts Club Band,' released the following year.âXFINITY Music Staff (AP Photo/FILE) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Michael Jackson:... While Jackson had certainly enjoyed success before 'Thriller,' this was the track that redefined the musical epic - complete with a 14-minute music video, Vincent Price's voice over, and multiple sound effects. The single helped push the album to be the top selling record of all time.âXFINITY Music Staff (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours, File) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Little Richard: ...

After a couple uneventful years of playing traditional blues, Little Richard exploded onto the music scene with "Tutti Frutti." His distinctive and outrageous voice barely corralling the instrumental mayhem behind him, he is a key figure in pushing rhythem & blues into rock & roll.âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Vince Bucci/Getty Images) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Elvis Presley --... 'Hearttbreak Hotel' was Elvis' first number one hit. His early songs paved the way for rock (and youth) to become the cultural force it is today.âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. The Sugarhill Ga... Though it's neither the first nor the most popular early rap track of all time, the Sugarhill Gang put rap on the map with their trademark song.âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Scott Gries/Getty Images) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. The Rolling Ston...

The Rolling Stones' fourth UK number one attacked the status quo and transformed them from another British invasion band into a snarling rock powerhouse.âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Scott Gries/Getty Images) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Jimi Hendrix -- ... A sleepy Woodstock crowd awoke to the frenzied strains of Hendrix's guitar as he completed transformed the national anthem into a song that expressed the agony and frustration of his generation.âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. N.W.A.: "F*** th... One of the most controversial songs of all time, N.W.A.'s kiss-off to law enforcement not only brought a warning letter from the FBI, it ushered in a new genre of rap music where street life was told apologetically and in gritty detail.

Artists like Tupac, Notorious BIG, and 50 Cent would ride N.W.A.'s coattails into the spotlight.âXFINITY Music Staff (Getty/Photo by Kevin Winter/ImageDirect) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Bob Dylan -- "Su... Dylan seemed to betray his audience by going electric, yet his reinvention made him the prototype for a generation of rock icons, including Lou Reed.âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by H. Thompson/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Sam Cooke: "A Ch... Cooke lent his soul-stirring gospel chops to this civil rights anthem, a response to Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind."âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Ludwig Van Beeth...

The towering bridge between the Classical and Romantic eras, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony will forever be remembered by its opening "Da-Da-Da-Daaaaah"âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Bob Marley & the... "Get Up" perfectly showcases the depth of The Wailers' spirituality and courage in what was meant to be a rallying cry for fellow Rastafarians.âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Gary Merrin/Keystone/Getty Images) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Run DMC feat. Ae... Run DMC teamed with Aerosmith to bring hip-hop further into the American mainstream by reinventing Aerosmith's classic.âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Frank Micelotta/ ImageDirect) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. The Beatles -- '... The Beatles revolutionized rock when rock was still revolutionizing the world.

The Beatles scored their first number one hit with this song and the rest is history.âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. The Buggles -- '... The Buggles ushered in the MTV era with their futuristic hit, "Video Killed the Radio Star."âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Island Recordes) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Metallica -- "On... Though metal had made significant inroads into the mainstream, it wasn't until Metallica's "One" that the genre garnered mainstream acceptance.âXFINITY Music Staff (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. The Sex Pistols ...

Punk had been lingering in back alleys until the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen" turned it into a phenomenon that pushed music ahead by stripping it to its raw essence.âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Platt Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. The Ronettes -- ... According to no less an authority than Brian Wilson, the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" is widely considered to be a perfect pop song. It also introduced the world to Spector's Wall of Sound production style.âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast. Aretha Franklin ... Aretha Franklin transformed Otis Redding's 'Respect' into a feminist anthem.âXFINITY Music Staff (Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images) The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast.

Question: Which band teamed up with Run DMC on the hit single "Walk This Way"?
Answer: Aerosmith