SHE TURNED TO GIVE ME A WINK,
THAT'D MAKE A GROWN MAN CRY
Rocks
is the fourth
studio album
by American
rock band
Aerosmith
released on
May 3rd 1976.
AllMusic described
Rocks
as having
"captured Aerosmith
at their most
raw and rocking."
Rocks
was ranked
number 366
on the updated
Rolling Stone's
list of the
500 Greatest Albums of All Time
in 2020.
It has influenced
many hard rock
and
heavy metal artists,
including
Guns N' Roses,
Metallica,
and
Nirvana.
The album was a
commercial success,
charting three singles
on the
Billboard Hot 100,
two of which
reached the Top 40
The album was one
of the first to
ship platinum
when it was released,
and has since gone
quadruple platinum.
Background
Previously,
Aerosmith had recorded
three albums:
Aerosmith
(1973),
Get Your Wings
(1974),
and the
breakthrough LP
Toys in the Attic
(1975),
which produced
Top Ten hit
"Walk This Way"
and the popular
"Sweet Emotion".
Although often
derided by critics,
the band had
amassed a
loyal fanbase
from relentless touring
and their
ferocious live shows.
Producer Douglas explains,
"The only thing we were
talking about a
few months
before Rocks
was that it was
going to be
a real
hard-rock album.
And we might
go back to the
format of the
first album,
which was to
rock out on
every tune.
And again,
keep it real raw.
And make it as
live sounding
as we possibly could."
By the time of the
album's sessions,
the group had
already begun
living the
rock-and-roll lifestyle
to the hilt,
indulging their already
considerable appetite
for drugs.
However,
their hedonistic lifestyle
did not appear to
hamper them creatively;
Rocks
was considered by
many fans,
critics,
and fellow musicians
to be one of the
highlights
of their career.
Guitarist
Joe Perry
later recalled,
"There's no doubt we were doing
a lot of drugs
by then,
but whatever we
were doing,
it was still
working for us
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