Steven Tyler

After a few years on the Boston club circuit under the tutelage of their first manager, Frank Connelly, the band began to work together with New York managers Steve Leber and David Krebs. In 1972, they signed a record agreement and debuted their first album. It was followed in 1973 by Get Your Wings. Toys in the Attic. Rocks. and Draw the Line. These albums helped Aerosmith to gain fame internationally. The albums produced legendary hits like "Dream On", Walk This Way, "Sweet Emotion" and "Walk This Way". Aerosmith's initial five albums were multi-platinum. Toys in the Attic and Rocks have been regarded as among the top hard rock albums ever. However, as the decade wore on the frantic pace of touring, recording, living together, and using substances began to take its toll on the band. Because of their famed use of stimulants and heroin, Tyler and Perry were known as the Toxic Twins. Aerosmith Behind the Music as well as numerous video recordings of Aerosmith show their relationship. Tyler is, evidently, more committed to the group, seemed to resent Perry's passiveness and admire Perry's preference for females in his life. The dynamic of tension between Tyler, Perry, and their once-friendly girlfriends was apparently one of the main reasons for the decline of Aerosmith, circa 1980.