The impact of the legendary collaboration between Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C. on a reworking of the former's “Walk This Way” cannot be overstated. Released in July 1986 as the second single from ...
Take some hard rock, toss in a little James Brown and a bit of New Orleans funk, and what do you have? In Aerosmith's case, a classic single — albeit one that needed a second chance to truly catch on.
As the story goes, one day nearly 40 years ago, a precocious 22-year-old New York record producer named Rick Rubin heard one of his bands, the hip-hop trio Run-D.M.C., messing with a catchy riff on a ...