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They’ve been larger-than-life performers for decades, but now Steven Tyler and Joe Perry’s songwriting skills are getting the attention.
The Aerosmith veterans will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June and will receive the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers’ Founders Award next week.
Rocking out in long hair and leather when their baby-boomer peers are opting for tracksuits and comfortable shoes, the band-mates attribute the twin songwriting honors to their longevity in the fickle and fractured music business.
“I think people are enamored by the music, and I think they’re pushed over the top by the fact that we stood the test of time, we’re still together and didn’t quit,” said Tyler, 65, who wore a leather tuxedo coat with tails and repeatedly fluffed his curls during a recent interview at NightBird Studios. “We’re still around. We’re still in the game and in the fight and have the passion … and it’s not a fighter that’s gotten knocked out or has wet brain, it’s a fight that we still do because we can.”
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Actor Joel Grey is 81. Actress Louise Lasser is 74. Actor Peter Riegart is 66. Actor Meshach Taylor (“Designing Women,” “Dave’s World”) is 66. Actor Bill Irwin is 63. Country singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale is 56. Guitarist Nigel Pulsford (Bush) is 52. Country singer Steve Azar is 49. Singer Lisa Stansfield is 47. Bassist Dylan Keefe of Marcy Playground is 43. Rapper David Banner is 39. Drummer Chris Gaylor of All-American Rejects is 34. Singer Joss Stone is 26. Actress Kaitlyn Jenkins (“Bunheads”) is 21.
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