The rock classic, written by frontman Steven Tyler, appeared on the band’s self-titled debut album in June 1973. Featuring Joe Perry’s explosive guitar work and Tyler’s soaring vocals, the song became a true underdog anthem.
“Dream On” failed to crack the Billboard Top 40 when it was first released and only went as far as No. 59 on the music chart in 1973.
But it took nearly three years for “Dream On” to become a real radio hit. On April 10, 1976, the song gained a second life when it peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, thanks to a reissue following the success of the band’s third album, Toys in the Attic.
The success of “Dream On” was a long time coming in another way. Tyler once told Rolling Stone he wrote the song years before he joined Aerosmith.
Decades later, the rock legend still celebrates the song. In June 2018, as “Dream On” turned 45, Tyler posted to Twitter, now X, to share, “I wrote the music [to ‘Dream On’] when I was 17 on a pump organ in Sunapee, NH … Wrote the lyrics in 2 days at a hotel at Boston Logan Airport…Sang it live for the first time at the Shaboo Inn, CT… and got to sing it again tonight 45 years to the day of its release in Motor City USA. … If it weren’t for the boys in Aero (and thank you [Boston radio station] WBCN), it never woulda seen the light of day.”
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