Al Shipley

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Joey Kramer, a drummer from the Bronx, came up with the band name Aerosmith in high school, and wrote it all over his notebooks long before he started the band that would eventually bear that name. While attending Boston’s Berklee College of Music, Kramer began playing with guitarist Joe Perry and bassist Tom Hamilton, and eventually they joined forces with two other Berklee students, singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Brad Whitford.

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Joey Kramer, a drummer from the Bronx, came up with the band name Aerosmith in high school, and wrote it all over his notebooks long before he started the band that would eventually bear that name. While attending Boston’s Berklee College of Music, Kramer began playing with guitarist Joe Perry and bassist Tom Hamilton, and eventually they joined forces with two other Berklee students, singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Brad Whitford.

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'Who Believes in Angels?' with Brandi Carlisle is out now

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Reginald Kenneth Dwight was a 20-year-old session musician when he applied for a job at a London record label, and was paired up with a lyricist named Bernie Taupin in 1967. Dwight adopted the stage name Elton John as a combination of the names of two members of his band Bluesology, and released his first album of songs written with Taupin, Empty Sky, to little fanfare in 1969.

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Stephanie Lynn Nicks was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1948. After her family moved to California, she received a guitar for her 16th birthday, began writing songs, and met a guitarist named Lindsey Buckingham in high school. After Nicks joined his band Fritz, they opened for stars like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, eventually becoming a couple and releasing a self-titled album as folk rock duo Buckingham Nicks in 1973.