Inspiration for classic rock songs sometimes came from unexpected places. For example, Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way” was inspired by The Three Stooges. In addition, Steven Tyler said the meaning of the ...

For most of her fans, Lady Gaga’s Grammy-nominated song “Born This Way” felt like a love letter to her queer followers. An acknowledgement that she saw and heard them and shared their feelings of ...

Rapper Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels recalled why Run-D.M.C. didn’t want to collaborate with Aerosmith on the 1986 hit crossover single “Walk This Way,” saying his band was convinced it would flop. The ...

Aerosmith’s first two albums in the 1980s, Rock in a Hard Place (1982) and Done with Mirrors (1985), both fell flat, as neither would even crack the top 30 of the Billboard 200. At the same time, ...

For everyone who has ever rocked out to Lady Gaga‘s 2011 smash hit “Born This Way,” the singer would like to make sure you’re just as amped about one of the song’s main inspirations — Carl Bean’s 1977 ...

Carl Bean possessed the voice of an angel and the soul of a saint. The man whose story is told in the documentary I Was Born This Way was born in Baltimore, MD in 1944 and raised primarily by his ...

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 ...