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    Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever
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    Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever
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    Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever

    Written by Geoff Edgers

    Narrated by Geoff Edgers

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    About this audiobook

    Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind "Walk This Way", Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music.

    The early 1980s were an exciting time for music. Hair-metal bands were selling out stadiums, while clubs and house parties in New York City had spawned a new genre of music. At the time, though, hip-hop's reach was limited, an art form largely ignored by mainstream radio deejays and the rock-obsessed MTV network.

    But in 1986, the music world was irrevocably changed when Run-DMC covered Aerosmith's hit "Walk This Way" in the first rock/hip-hop collaboration. Others had tried melding styles. This was different, as a pair of iconic arena rockers and the young kings of hip-hop shared a studio and started a revolution. The result: something totally new and instantly popular. Most importantly, "Walk This Way" would be the first rap song to be played on mainstream rock radio.

    In Walk This Way, Geoff Edgers sets the scene for this unlikely union of rockers and MCs, a mashup that both revived Aerosmith and catapulted hip-hop into the mainstream. He tracks the paths of the main artists — Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Joseph "Run" Simmons, and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels — along with other major players on the scene across their lives and careers, illustrating the long road to the revolutionary marriage of rock and hip-hop.

    Deeply researched and written in cinematic style, this music history is a must-hear for fans of hip-hop, rock, and everything in between.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 5, 2019
    ISBN9781984841766
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    Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever
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    Geoff Edgers

    Geoff Edgers is a reporter at The Boston Globe and author of Who Were The Beatles? and Who Was Elvis Presley?

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