Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...